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Saturday Walk – San Luis NWR Feb 2025 7:00 am
Saturday Walk – San Luis NWR Feb 2025
Feb 1 @ 7:00 am – 4:00 pm
Saturday Walk - San Luis NWR Feb 2025
San Luis NWR Saturday Feb. 1, 2025   THIS EVENT IS FULL. Email admin@fresnoudubon.org to be put on the waiting list. All participants must agree to the FAS Liability Waiver Form when they register. Use the QR code below or the form can also be...
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Saturday Walk – Merced NWR Feb 2025 7:45 am
Saturday Walk – Merced NWR Feb 2025 @ MNWR
Feb 8 @ 7:45 am – 1:00 pm
Merced National Wildlife Refuge February 8, 2025   Registration required: Please register here.   Co-leaders: Judy Johnson  & Lowell Young With winter migrants filling local refuges and putting on a tremendous show, it is a wonderful time to bird Central Valley wetlands. Join Fresno Audubon...
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Millerton Lake Eagle Tour February 9, 2025 8:45 am
Millerton Lake Eagle Tour February 9, 2025 @ Millerton Lake, Boat ramp #1
Feb 9 @ 8:45 am – 12:00 pm
Millerton Lake Eagle Tour February 9, 2025 @ Millerton Lake, Boat ramp #1
Millerton Lake Eagle Tours Reserved Space for Eagle Tour (25 people) Boat ramp #1, 5290 Millerton Rd, Friant, CA 93626 Sunday, February 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM (PT) Cost: $20 per person (NON-REFUNDABLE)  (If the event is canceled due to weather a refund will be...
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General Meeting – Feb. 2025- Benny Jacobs-Schwartz: Colombia: South America’s Birding Mecca 7:00 pm
General Meeting – Feb. 2025- Benny Jacobs-Schwartz: Colombia: South America’s Birding Mecca @ Zoom
Feb 11 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
General Meeting - Feb. 2025- Benny Jacobs-Schwartz: Colombia: South America’s Birding Mecca @ Zoom
 Virtual General Meeting Benny Jacobs-Schwartz Colombia: South America’s Birding Mecca   Due to technical difficulties with the Jan. Zoom Meeting we have rescheduled the meeting to February. Please re-register so that you will get the reminders for this meeting.   Register for Fresno Audubon General...
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Parkfield/Cholame Valley, Feb 2025 7:00 am
Parkfield/Cholame Valley, Feb 2025 @ Parkfield/Cholame Valley
Feb 12 @ 7:00 am – 4:00 pm
  Parkfield/Cholame Valley Bird Walk February 12, 2025 Register here   Join Kevin Enns-Rempel on February 12 for a birding trip to Cholame Valley and Parkfield. We will meet the leader’s home at 6:45am, and depart there by 7am. The address will be provided in...
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Wednesday Walk – Ball Ranch 8:00 am
Wednesday Walk – Ball Ranch @ Ball Ranch Trailhead
Feb 15 @ 8:00 am – 11:30 am
Wednesday Walk - Ball Ranch @ Ball Ranch Trailhead
Saturday Bird Walk Ball Ranch Registration is required for this event. All participants must agree to the FAS Liability Waiver Form when they register. Use the QR code below or the form can also be found here Register for the walk here. Ball Ranch, on the...
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Wednesday Walk – Ball Ranch @ Ball Ranch Trailhead
Feb 15 @ 8:00 am – 11:30 am

Saturday Bird Walk

Ball Ranch

Registration is required for this event.

All participants must agree to the FAS Liability Waiver Form when they register. Use the QR code below or the form can also be found here

FAS Release of Liability Form

FAS Release of Liability Form

Register for the walk here.

Ball Ranch, on the San Joaquin River Parkway, offers various habitats including grasslands, wetlands, ponds, riparian areas and oak groves. Cormorants, ducks, mergansers, grebes, raptors, sparrows, finches, quail, gnatcatchers, woodpeckers and many others can be found there. Occasionally we have found Lewis’s Woodpeckers.  We will walk 1 to 2 miles on dirt roads and a short trail.  There are restrooms on site.
We will meet at Ball Ranch in the recently developed parking lot at 8:00. We plan to be finished by 11:30.
The property is open to the public, so the gates will be open if anyone needs to leave early.
Checklist:  binoculars, scope, field guide, snacks, water, sunscreen, hat.

Ball Ranch meeting location    (36.9361267, -119.7309237)

 

 

 

Green Heron by Clayton Dahlen

 

 

 

 

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Mendota Wildlife Area March 1, 2025 @ Mendota Wildlife Area
Mar 1 @ 7:30 am – 12:00 pm

Mendota Wildlife Area

March 1, 2025

Registration Required.

Link to Registration.

All participants must agree to the FAS Liability Waiver Form when they register.  The form can be found here

Join us for an exciting field trip on Saturday, March 1, 2025!
MEETING PLACE:
Address: Mendota Wildlife Area Headquarters, 4333 Santa Fe Grade, Mendota, CA 93640. NOTE: The meeting location is NOT the headquarters, but the registration booth, right off the 180. If you cross the bridge over the slough, you went too far.
BIRD INFO:

We expect to observe various species of waterfowl, songbirds, woodpeckers, as well as raptors. Target species include American Bittern, Clark’s Grebe, Marsh Wren, Sora, Virginia Rail, White-tailed Kite, and Great Horned Owl.

PREPARATION INFO:

The trail is relatively flat but may be uneven and muddy in some areas. Dress accordingly. To ensure you have a comfortable and enjoyable experience, please bring snacks, water, a hat, binoculars (if you need loaners, contact Rick). Dress in layers to prepare for chilly morning temperatures.
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Registration is required for this event. To secure your spot and receive any additional details, please complete the registration process.

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If you have any questions or need further information, feel free to reach out to the trip leader, Rick Grijalva at rickgrijalva2@gmail.com or 559-578-6168.

 

Checklist: binoculars, scope, field guide, snacks, lunch, water, sunscreen, hat, radios

 

 

Registration Required.

Link to Registration.

 

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The Raptor Trail Field Trip on The Kings River at Pine Flat Dam @ The Raptor Trail on The Kings River at Pine Flat Dam
Mar 5 @ 8:30 am – 1:30 pm

The Raptor Trail on The Kings River at Pine Flat Dam

Registration is required for this event.

All participants must agree to the FAS Liability Waiver Form when they register. Use the QR code below or the form can also be found here

FAS Release of Liability Form

Registration Link

Join FAS for birding along the Kings River. The trail begins across from the parking lot on the south side of the bridge just below Pine Flat Dam. The trail is basically an easy walk of approximately a mile and a quarter each way, but there is some uneven terrain and river rocks create a cobblestone surface in parts. Some of our target species include Golden Eagles, Bald Eagles, Oak Titmouse, Acorn Woodpecker,  California Quail,  White-Breasted Nuthatch and Osprey.

 

Meet in the parking lot at the south side of the bridge. If you want to look for directions from the eBird map, the Raptor Trail is just across the river from the North Riverside Access Park eBird Hotspot. GPS Coordinates 36.8298592686927, -119.33621274737327.

 

Participants should bring snacks, lunch (if desired), water, hat, sunscreen, and binoculars, and should dress in layers. Registration is required for this event. If you have any questions, please reach out to the trip leader.

Contact:

Susan Heidebrecht

(559) 313-1777

email: sunheidebrecht@comcast.net

Registration Link

All participants must agree to the FAS Liability Waiver Form when they register. Use the QR code below or the form can also be found here

FAS Release of Liability Form

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May 2025 General Meeting @ Zoom
May 13 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

May 2025 General Meeting

This meeting will be broadcast online via Zoom
Register to receive login information.

Registration Link

 

New to Zoom? Check out all you need to know here before the meeting.

May 13, 2025

Speaker: Scott Harris
Title: RaptorQuest


New to Zoom? Check out all you need to know here before the meeting.

 

Description: 

Scott Harris spent 17 months, chasing 53 Raptors across 34 states—his version of a Raptor Big Year. RaptorQuest is about his adventures, misadventures, successes and failures. From -36 degree days, to ones over 100 degrees, to just getting on the bird just in time, to the frustrations of missing one by minutes. It’s about the birds—of course—but it’s also about the people he met, the things he learned and why he’s already working on his next adventure.

 

 

Speaker Bio: 

Scott Harris and his wife Randi retired to South Carolina in March of 2020-something. Scott will tell you it was one of the best decisions they have made in their 45 years of marriage. It was also when he first started birding – a hobby he never imagined himself participating in, but now can’t imagine living without.

 

They sold their long-time home and business, Mustang Marketing, a marketing/branding company they had owned for 35 years. They are blessed that both their children and their grandson are also in South Carolina.

 

While in California, Scott had a syndicated newspaper column and two weekly radio shows. He and his son Justin also hosted a Los Angeles Dodgers weekly live radio show. Scott sat on dozens of boards over the years, including Boys & Girls Club, United Way, The Sheriff’s Foundation, Pepperdine University, Moorpark College and California State University Northridge.

 

In the month before leaving Ventura County, Scott was honored as Man of the Year, with his company having won Business of the Year two years previously. His interests and hobbies include the largest collection of John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley in the world, playing harmonica in a blues band and he has written more than fifty books in the past seven years – though the one he’ll be discussing today is his first entrée into the world of birding and birds. 

 

That book, RaptorQuest: Chasing America’s Raptors, is the story of his year-long adventure tracking down every species of Raptor in the Lower 48 states. And today, we’ll learn about his adventures, misadventures, successes and failures.



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