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Where You Can Find Us at Up Coming Community Events
(click the event titles for more details)

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Borrow some binoculars
and try out a telescope
from the library!​

​(Click Here for Details)
All Community Events
can use a volunteer
​like you!


Volunteers needed
for upcoming events on the left 

If Interested Please Contact
Mary Ann at 440-255-0961
​or blackbrookaud@aol.com



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100 for FUN 2025
January 100 Cooperative Challenge

Help us achieve seeing 100 bird species together this January. Bird anywhere in Ohio from parks and birding hot spots to your backyard bird feeders and share your lists with Blackbrook. To participate, share at least 4 bird lists with Blackbrook Audubon in January 2025 eBird lists can be shared with “FriendsofBlackbrook”, or you can email your bird lists to us at blackbrookaud@aol.com. Please include the date and birding location for emailed lists.
Keep tabs on our group's progress on the 100 for FUN page on Blackbrook's website, which will launch on January 1, and be updated on Tuesday and Saturday evenings throughout the month.
 
Join us on January 26 2025, at 8:00 am, for our monthly bird walk at Veterans Park to squeeze in a few more birds, followed by a 100 for FUN wrap-up. We will acknowledge top contributors, and the most frequently seen birds, and vote on the rarest bird spotted. We hope to see you there, happy birding!
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2025 Count 97 - Day 31

Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
American Black Duck
Canvasback
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Harlequin Duck
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
American Coot
Killdeer
Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
American Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Glaucous Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Iceland Gull
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
​Red-throated Loon
Common Loon

Double-crested Cormorant
Great Egret
Great Blue Heron
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Northern Harrier
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
American Barn Owl
Eastern Screech-Owl

Snowy Owl
Great Horned Owl
Short-eared Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Blue Jay
​American Crow
Common Raven
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Horned Lark
Golden-crowned Kinglet
White-breasted Nuthatch
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper- Last Bird Seen
Carolina Wren
European Starling
Northern Mockingbird
Eastern Bluebird
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Cedar Waxwing
House Sparrow
House Finch
Purple Finch
White-winged Crossbill
American Goldfinch
Lapland Longspur
Snow Bunting
American Tree Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
White-throated Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Eastern Towhee
Eastern Meadowlark
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Northern Cardinal

January Tally
(This list has been retroactively updated, some checklist may have been shared late.)  
 Tues. 1st - 48 Species
Sat. 4th - 51 Species
​Tues. 7th - 68 Species
 Sat. 11th - 82 Species
 Tues. 14th - 85 Species
Sat. 18th - 91 Species

Tues. 21st - 95 Species
Sat. 25th - 95 Species

Tues. 28st - 96 Species

Sunday, the 26th wrap up @ Veterans Park (Mentor) after the Monthly Bird Walk
95 birding sites, 11 counties (Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Delaware, Franklin, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Portage, Summit, Trumbull, Wayne) 
Added 14 new birds (in Bold), 19 Contributing Birders Submitted 
66 Checklist
Longest Checklist 33 species - Cleveland Lakefront Preserve Jan 5th 
 Friday 31st ( Total 96 )


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Blackbrook Audubon Society promotes conservation and restoration of ecosystems with emphasis on birds
​and habitat through education and advocacy within Ohio's Ashtabula, Lake and Geauga counties and adjacent communities.


PO Box 1306
Mentor, OH 44061-1306


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