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Join Choctawhatchee Audubon for birding field trips and more

May 2, 2024 – Join Choctawhatchee Audubon as Jim Cox discusses the Red-cockaded Woodpecker. This bird was listed as endangered in 1970. The old-growth pine forests and prescribed fires needed to sustain the woodpecker were in short supply during this period and most populations were in noticeable decline. Biologists working with woodpeckers were pessimistic about future prospects, but conditions began to change in the early 1990s with the advent of new management tools and development of a comprehensive recovery plan...

Go birding, learn about wildlife with Bay County Audubon Society  

Go birding, learn about wildlife with Bay County Audubon Society. Upcoming events, presentations, and field trips and more with Bay County Audubon Society in March and April 2024.  Field trips are subject to the weather. No rain dates have been scheduled. For questions, call or email Ron Houser at 850-774-9733; ronhouser84@gmail.com. March 11: Meet in person in the St. Andrews Episcopal Church Parish Hall at 6:30 p.m. on the second Monday of each month, September-May. Informal socializing starts at 6:30 p.m., routine business...

Join in on the annual Audubon Backyard Bird Count Feb. 16 – 19

Have 15 minutes to spare for the birds? Join Audubon for the 26th annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC), taking place February 16 – 19, 2024. Bird and nature lovers everywhere, of all skill levels and all abilities, unite in the effort to tally as many of the world’s bird species as possible over these four days. Combined with other bird counts, GBBC results help create a clearer picture of how birds are faring—whether individual species are declining, increasing, or...

Enjoy February field trips with the Choctawhatchee Audubon Society

Enjoy birding with the local Choctawhatchee Audubon this February. View and learn about birds while enjoying the outdoors in Northwest Florida. Sat., Feb. 10, 2024 – field trip to into the countryside of North Okaloosa and Walton counties. Leader Malcolm Swan 210:452:4899 (texting encouraged). Meet at 7:30 am in the Niceville CVS, Oak Creek Shopping Center parking lot, Niceville. Our goals include winter visitors including Sandhill Cranes south of Florala and Lake Jackson. Wear sturdy, closed-toe shoes, and long pants....

Enjoy birding with Choctawhatchee Audubon Society

Get outdoors and enjoy birding this November with Choctawhatchee Audubon Society – Nov. 2, 2023 – 6:30 p.m. Feathers, Focus, and Frames: Bird Photography in Okaloosa County by Jim Anderton Visit and socialize with us and Jim Anderton who will talk about photography gear and techniques he uses to photograph birds in Okaloosa County. Learn about the local birding hotspots he visits as well as the birds he photographs. This Choctawhatchee Audubon program will take place on Nov. 2nd and...

Hummingbirds visit Northwest Florida during fall months

Fill up your feeders and enjoy a hummer show! Between now and early spring, rare hummingbird species from out West turn up in Florida on their way to their winter homes in the tropics. Ruby-throated hummingbirds are year-round residents throughout Florida, but many from up North also pass through here on their annual migration to Central America. Floridians who put up hummingbird feeders or grow red or orange tubular flowers may get a glimpse of one of at least nine...