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May 2025 General Meeting 7:00 pm
May 2025 General Meeting @ Zoom
May 13 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
May 2025 General Meeting @ Zoom
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 Registration Link New...
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Nevins Penninsula SAVE THE DATE 8:30 am
Nevins Penninsula SAVE THE DATE @ Nevins Penninsula
May 15 @ 8:30 am – 12:30 pm
Thursday Bird Walk at Nevins Penninsula SAVE THE DATE!! All participants must agree to the FAS Liability Waiver Form when they register. The form can be found here   Registration is required for this event. Registration available soon.   Details coming soon.   Participants should...
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Saturday Field Trip – Morro Bay May 17, 2025 5:30 am
Saturday Field Trip – Morro Bay May 17, 2025 @ Walmart
May 17 @ 5:30 am – 4:00 pm
Saturday Field Trip - Morro Bay May 17, 2025 @ Walmart
Registration is required for this event for each participant. Registration closes 24 hours before the event or when full. REGISTRATION LINK Please join Fresno Audubon on Saturday, May 17 as we escape the Valley heat and journey to Morro Bay.   We will meet at...
Introduction to Birding Saturday May 17, 2025 9:00 am
Introduction to Birding Saturday May 17, 2025 @ River Center
May 17 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Introduction to Birding Saturday May 17, 2025 @ River Center
Introduction to Birding at the River Center 11605 Old Friant Rd Fresno, CA 93730     Registration link  All registrants must agree to the FAS Liability Waiver Form when they register. Use the QR code below or the form can also be found here Description...
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FAS Board Meeting 11:00 am
FAS Board Meeting @ Zoom meeting
May 25 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
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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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May
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2025
Nevins Penninsula SAVE THE DATE @ Nevins Penninsula
May 15 @ 8:30 am – 12:30 pm

Thursday Bird Walk at Nevins Penninsula

SAVE THE DATE!!

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

 

Registration is required for this event.

Registration available soon.

 

Details coming soon.

 

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 trip leader George Folsom at georgefolsom@icloud.com.

 

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Saturday Field Trip – Morro Bay May 17, 2025 @ Walmart
May 17 @ 5:30 am – 4:00 pm

Long-billed Curlew by Rachel Clark

Registration is required for this event for each participant.

Registration closes 24 hours before the event or when full.

REGISTRATION LINK

Please join Fresno Audubon on Saturday, May 17 as we escape the Valley heat and journey to Morro Bay.

 

We will meet at 5:30 AM at the Walmart parking lot on the southeast corner of Blackstone and Ashlan to arrange carpooling. The plan is to depart by 5:45 AM.

 

The first destination will be Montaña de Oro State Park. Goal birds at this location will be Brown Pelican, Western Gull, Brandt’s Cormorant, Pelagic  Cormorant, Black Oystercatcher, Pigeon Guillemot, Wrentit, California Thrasher, California Towhee, Spotted Towhee, Bewick’s Wren, California Quail, and many more!

 

Next, we will visit Morro Bay State Park, where we will visit the Marina/Boardwalk Trail and the heron rookery. Our goal birds at these locations will be Heermann’s Gull, Caspian Tern, Long-billed Curlew, Marbled Godwit, Willet, Black-crowned Night Heron, and many more.

 

Sometime while in Morro Bay State Park, we will sit down for lunch. Our next birding destination will be Sweet Springs Nature Preserve, where our goal birds will be Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Common Yellowthroat, Pacific-slope Flycatcher, Violet-green Swallow, Black-bellied Plover, Snowy Egret, and many more. If there is time, we will stop by Morro Rock to look for Peregrine Falcons and various shorebirds.

 

The plan is to leave Morro Bay around 3:30 or 4:00 PM and be back in Fresno by 6:30 PM. Participants should bring snacks, lunch, water, hat, sunscreen, and binoculars, and should dress in layers. Please be aware that there is poison oak along the trails at Montaña de Oro State Park and other locations along the coast; long pants and poison oak/ivy wipes are recommended.

 

Registration is required and there is a limit of 25 participants.

Registration is required for this event for each participant.

 

REGISTRATION LINK

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

Trip leader: Rick Grijalva at 559-578-6168 or rickgrijalva2@gmail.com.

 

 

Introduction to Birding Saturday May 17, 2025 @ River Center
May 17 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Introduction to Birding at the River Center

11605 Old Friant Rd
Fresno, CA 93730

 

 

Registration link 

All registrants 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

Description
The Parkway Trust and Fresno Audubon Society have joined forces to offer a birding class that combines instruction, exploration, and fun! Beginning birders will see and learn about local and migratory birds that might be visiting the River Center. New birders will discover easy ways to identify migrating and year-round, local birds. The class will include a walk looking for birds in the various habitats found at the River Center. We will meet at the new picnic shelter on the north side of the center. After learning about using binoculars and various aids in bird identification like guide books and phone apps, we will bird around the property. Bring binoculars, lunch, water and sun protection.  Fresno Audubon will have binoculars to loan if you do not have your own. Children are welcome!
BegBirdHO
QR Code for Beginning Birding Handout.
Heavy rain cancels this event.
Class is held from 9 AM -12 PM on the third Saturday of each month from October through May. Subject to change.

Registration link 

All registrants 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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FAS Board Meeting @ Zoom meeting
May 25 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

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Swanson Meadow (Shaver) SAVE THE DATE @ Swanson Meadow (Shaver)
Jun 7 @ 8:30 am – 12:30 pm

Saturday Bird Walk at Swanson Meadow (Shaver)

SAVE THE DATE!!

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

 

Registration is required for this event.

Registration available soon.

 

Details coming soon.

 

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 trip leader George Folsom at georgefolsom@icloud.com.

 

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FAS Board Meeting @ Zoom meeting
Jun 29 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

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FAS Board Meeting @ Zoom meeting
Jul 27 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

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FAS Board Meeting @ Zoom meeting
Aug 31 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

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FAS Board Meeting @ Zoom meeting
Sep 28 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

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