Sunday, May 24 at 8:00 a.m. Charlie Scheim and Sandy Bright will lead a bird walk on the Andes Rail Trail in Andes, NY. This walk has been scheduled at the request of the Andes Garden Club, but all are welcome to attend.

We will meet at the Andes Rail Trail parking lot at 266 Depot St in Andes. The walk will be roughly a mile to a mile and a half and last 1 1/2 to 2 hours. We will follow the Rail Trail, which is firm dirt, but not paved, along generally level terrain, no steep uphills. (We’ll turn around before the trail starts heading uphill very much.) There is a decent amount of parking at the beginning of the rail trail, but no restrooms.

Join DOAS for a bird walk on Sunday, June 7 at 8am at the West Branch Preserve, located in the Town of Hamden, about 10 miles southeast of Delhi. Charlie Scheim and Sandy Bright will lead the walk.

Meet at 8 AM at the preserve entrance and parking area, on NY Rt10, about 0.9 miles west of the intersection with County Route 26. The parking area is adjacent to the Watershed Agricultural Council building at 33195 NY-10. The walk will be on unpaved and at times uneven paths through the fields and forests of the Preserve and will likely last about 1.5 hours.

There will be a certain amount of moderate uphill and downhill walking. There are no restrooms at the preserve and no resting benches along the path. See website below for more information. https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/places-we-protect/eny-west-branch-nature-preserve/?en_txn1=bl.ch_ny.eg.x.g

The walk will be on unpaved and at times uneven paths through the fields and forests of the Preserve and will likely last about 1.5 hours. There will be a certain amount of moderate uphill and downhill walking. There are no restrooms at the preserve and no resting benches along the path.

For more information, contact Charlie Scheim at 607-434-4880 or scheimc@hartwick.edu.

Image: Scarlet Tanager, Photographer Unknown.

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Join DOAS Director Charlie Scheim, Bird Sightings author Sandy Bright, and the Environmental Director of the Uplands Center Renee Hardenkamp for a morning bird walk at the Uplands Center in Walton, NY (2641 Dunk Hill Road) on Saturday, June 13 at 8:00am. Our focus will be on observing birds and their breeding behaviors., will accompany us on this walk. The Uplands Center (www.uplandscenter.org) has acres of fields and forests, great habitat for breeding birds. We will meet just outside the main lodge. The walk will begin on a mostly level grassy path through a large field where we will likely find a number of grassland species. We will then follow a path through a wooded area with some gentle uphills and downhills, seeking woodland inhabitants. There are accessible rest rooms at the walk’s beginning and end and some rest spots along the way. The walk will likely last about an hour and a half. This program is free and there is no pre-registration required. You may call Charlie Scheim at 607-434-4880 for more information or for any last minute weather concerns.

Image: Bobolink; photo by Jennifer Hyypio.

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