SENECA ROCKS AUDUBON SOCIETY
Short-eared Owl. Video: Steven Chu/Audubon Photography Awards
Upcoming Events
Common Yellowthroat. Photo: Mike Warner/
Audubon Photography Awards.
Join us for these upcoming events. We'd love to see you!
August 12, 5-8 pm - Annual Member Picnic
​ Shelter #6, Clarion County Park, 41 Clarion County Park, Shippenville, PA 41.20320 N, 79.43574 W
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Join us for delicious food and time to socialize with members and friends. All are welcome! Please bring your own place setting and a dish to share if possible. We'll also have grilled burgers and hotdogs, lemonade, and water.
While you're there, renew your membership or join. Also check out our new Chimney Swift tower! It's close to the shelter and will be dedicated at the picnic.
Common Nighthawk Migration Watch, 6:30-8 pm Nightly
Oil City Marina - August 14 - early September
Mill Creek Boat Launch - August 15 - early September
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November 4, 6- 8 pm, Owl Prowl
December 19, all day - Christmas Bird Count
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.
September 9 - Birding Pennsylvania's State Parks (virtual) with Chris Kemmerer, Education and Interpretation Section Chief, Pennsylvania State Parks
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
Conservation
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.
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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.
Eastern Bluebird. Photo: Andrew Sentipal/Audubon Photography Awards.
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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
6:30 pm - 8 pm nightly at 2 locations:
Mill Creek Boat Launch- August 15 - early September
Oil City Marina - August 14 - early September
Christmas Bird Count - December 19, 2026
Education
We educate the public in a variety of ways.
Held in Spring 2026 in cooperation with our local public libraries in Clarion and Forest Counties and Brookville.
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.