Category Archives: Field Trips

Sept. 26 | mid-afternoon | Westwood Park As our fall picnic is winding down on Saturday, September 26, please join us for a mid-afternoon walk on a trail that will take us along the lake’s edge and surrounding woodland, where we’ll look for waterfowl and migrating passerines. Click here for full details about the picnic.

Oct. 10 | 8-10 a.m. Please join us for our next monthly bird walk at Mounds State Park on Saturday, October 10.  Meet in the parking lot next to the Visitors Center at 8 a.m. Binoculars will be provided for those who don’t have their own. The following bird walk will be on November 14. (NOTE: From March-October, walksContinue reading “Mounds State Park”

Oct. 24 | 9-11 a.m. We’ll join the Greenfield Birders for their final autumn bird walk at Thornwood Nature Preserve, a 40-acre woodland located southeast of Greenfield. Adam Wilson will be our leader for the walk, which will take us through pasture and mixed forest. Plan to meet at 9 a.m. in the Thornwood parkingContinue reading “Thornwood Nature Preserve”

Oct. 31 | 8:30-10:30 While we’ll still be on the lookout for birds (as always!), the highlight of this trip will be fall foliage and beautiful landscapes. We’ll walk a .75-mile loop trail that winds through Smith-Crisler Nature Preserve, a dedicated state preserve located within Fall Creek Woods, which is a property of Red-tail LandContinue reading “Fall Creek Woods”