SENECA ROCKS AUDUBON SOCIETY
Short-eared Owl. Video: Steven Chu/Audubon Photography Awards
Winter Events
Eastern Screech Owl. Photo: Jen St Lewis/ Audubon Photograhy Awards.
Join us for these upcoming events. We'd love to see you!
December 9 - Member Night, 6 pm, Clarion Free Library.
It's show and tell night for members and friends. Enjoy light refreshments and socializing. Bring your bird stories, photos, poems, objects to show, and our year in photos. We'll have a computer for use. We'll also review our plans for the Christmas Bird Count.
January 9, Winter sowing classes.
Plant seeds of 5 different native perennials in jugs and take home to grow in the spring. Details and registration information will be posted soon! In partnership with Master Gardeners of Clarion Co.
Nature Programs
Photo courtesy of Melissa Goodwill, Tamarack Wildlife Center.
Our monthly nature programs are always interesting. They're free and all are welcome.
We meet at the Clarion Free Library, 644 Main St., Clarion, on the second Wednesday of the month.
The programs start at 6:00 pm. Come early to get a seat and socialize!
Click the blue titles below for more information.
October 14 - Nature Lessons at Audubon's Hog Island, Maine
with Dana Hannibal, Jefferson County Conservation District and SRAS Hog Island Scholarship recipient
November 11 - Conservation of PA Grassland Birds with David Yeany II, Senior Vertebrate Zoologist/Avian Ecologist, Western PA Conservancy
December 9 - Member Night with members sharing bird stories, photos, poems, objects, and our year in photos. Enjoy the socializing and light refreshments.
Conservation
Eastern Bluebird. Photo: Andrew Sentipal/Audubon Photography Awards.
Our chapter is working to restore and preserve precious bird habitat and to educate the public about ways they can help.
Please join us in our efforts. We each can help.
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Bird-Friendly Habitat - Our team actively promotes native plants for private and public spaces in our area. We offer a winter sowing class with native perennial seeds each January, sell native plants in June during the Herb and Fiber Festival at Cook Forest, maintain several demonstration native gardens in Clarion, and have a tour of area native gardens. See if your backyard habitat qualifies for a colorful yard sign through the PA Audubon Council. Click here for more information and a Bird Habitat Recognition application.
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​Piney Tract (SGL 330) - A former strip mine, it is now an Important Birding Area and a breeding home to many grassland birds.
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Northern Saw-whet Owl Boxes - More than 40 boxes are checked for activity twice each year.
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Go Birding!
Canada Warbler by Meg Kolodick.
The following links will take you to the eBird website for County Hotspots and recent sightings:
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Two great articles by Carole Winslow:
Winter Birding in Clarion County
and
Birding in Clarion County: Rivers, Fields and Forests
Read here:
https://discoverclarioncounty.com/birding-in-clarion-county-rivers-fields-and-forests/
Community Science
We're involved in several community science projects. Anyone is welcome to join us. We'd love to have your company!
Email us at senecarocksaudubon@gmail.com if you're interested.
PA Bird Atlas, a 5-year project that started in 2024
Christmas Bird Count, December 19, throughout the day.
We welcome volunteers regardless of their birding skills. It's fun and rewarding! We have 6 openings for volunteer spotters to join our car teams to count birds on various routes around Clarion. You can join them for as long as you like. Or if you prefer to stay at home, you can count birds at your bird feeder for any length of time during the day. Click above for more information and contacts.
Education
We educate the public in a variety of ways.
Bird Art Competition for Kids
A fun competition for preschool through 12th grade. It's held in cooperation with our local public libraries in Clarion and Forest Counties and Brookville. More information will be posted soon.
Click above for a listing of free and reputable bird resources for connecting students to nature.
Tabling at local events
Presentations to community groups
Shop
Anthology of poems about birds
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$10.00 through SRAS. Also available at Sparrow Books, Fulmer House Books, and Amazon. Available at programs or use this order form and we'll mail you a copy.
Long-sleeved t-shirts with chapter logo. Royal blue or kelly green. $15. Available at programs
or email us at senecarocksaudubon@gmail.com
Wooden bird houses and oriole feeders $15 each. Bat house $20. Email us to purchase.
Birds of Venango County: The status, distribution, and history of the birds of Pennsylvania’s Oil Region, written by Gary Edwards with Jeffrey Hall.
The book is $20 plus $3.50 postage. Address is:
Gary Edwards
224 Meadow Rd. Apt.9
Seneca, PA 16346
Email Gary here for info.