Field Trip Reports

On Saturday, March 26, 2016, Columbus Audubon revived a formerly annual tradition by surveying Green Lawn Cemetery for migrating Saw-whet Owls. A group of 37 people met at 9 a.m. to search the cemetery’s 360 acres, peeking into nearly 2,000 coniferous trees for the tiny owls. Splitting into several groups, the birders scoured the cemetery. …

Fifteen hardy bird lovers assembled in Worthington for the annual Columbus Audubon Winter at Killdeer Plains field trip. This year, we did not need to be quite as hardy as usual, though: despite dense, threatening clouds and a stiff breeze, the temperature reached into the low 50’s. Warm weather meant no snow on the ground. Normally that’s…

About fifteen of us came out on a cold but sunny day and hit the birding jackpot!

Seventeen of us found ourselves basking in bright sunshine and unseasonably warm temperatures at Green Lawn Cemetery on this Sunday afternoon. Reports of crossbills had raised the pre-trip excitement level, but a stiff breeze threatened to make the birding a little more difficult than usual.

This morning was the summer’s third installment of Columbus Audubon’s Birding by Kayak at The Adaptive Adventure Sports Coalition (TAASC) located on the west side of O’Shaughnessy Reservoir just north of the village of Shawnee Hills.