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November
01nov9:00 am11:00 amBird Seed Sale Pickup 2025Preorders only
Event Details
To order, visit: https://doas.us/2025-order-bird-seed/ For all who
Event Details
To order, visit: https://doas.us/2025-order-bird-seed/
For all who ordered bird seed, it will be available to pick up on Saturday, November 1 from 9–11:00 a.m.
- ORDER DEADLINE: SUNDAY, October 19, by 5 p.m.
- PRODUCT PICKUP: SATURDAY, November 1, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
- PICKUP LOCATION: VP Supply Corp., 69 Country Club Road, Oneonta, NY.
Your order directly supports DOAS’s programs! Proceeds will go toward field trips, special events, the Franklin Mountain Hawkwatch, youth summer programs, and speaker fees for meetings. Thank you to all who support DOAS through this annual sale!
Blue Jay, Photo by Diana Douglass-Audubon Photography Awards
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VP Supply Corp.
69 Country Club Road
Organizer
Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society
12nov7:00 pm8:00 pmThe Eagle Guy: A Life with New York’s Majestic Raptors
Event Details
On Wednesday, November 12 at 7:00 p.m., Join us for a captivating talk and slideshow with Scott Van Arsdale, retired Fish and Wildlife Technician with
Event Details
On Wednesday, November 12 at 7:00 p.m., Join us for a captivating talk and slideshow with Scott Van Arsdale, retired Fish and Wildlife Technician with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, as he shares stories from a career spent working up close with some of our most iconic birds of prey.
Scott will trace the remarkable history of eagles in New York, including the highly successful bald eagle restoration program. He’ll recount firsthand experiences—from climbing into treetop nests to wintertime capture missions involving both bald and golden eagles—and explore current threats to these powerful raptors.
The program is presented by Otsego County Conservation Association in partnership with Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society. This is a hybrid program that will take place live at the Clark Sports Center, 124 County Highway 52, Cooperstown NY. (Register for in-person attendance at https://www.occainfo.org/calendar/the-eagle-guy-a-life-with-new-yorks-majestic-raptors) or register to watch on zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xvatJ7kwS6y5xIDaa6hiHQ.
About the Speaker:
A Finger Lakes native and SUNY Cobleskill graduate, Scott served more than 30 years with DEC, much of that time based in Stamford. He is the author of The Eagle Guy, a memoir chronicling his decades of fieldwork. Scott now lives in the Town of Otego. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to hear from someone who’s spent a lifetime helping eagles soar. Scott will have his book for sale after the talk.
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Organizer
Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society
21nov7:30 pm8:15 pmPaved Paradise: Addressing the Ecological Impacts of America's Road System
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The Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society will host Ben Goldfarb, a renowned environmental journalist, on Friday, November 21, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. via Zoom. Ben will be discussing
Event Details
The Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society will host Ben Goldfarb, a renowned environmental journalist, on Friday, November 21, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. via Zoom. Ben will be discussing the challenges of our road systems to wildlife along with solutions, the topic of his latest award-winning book, Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet. This program is free and open to the public.
Registration is required at https://tinyurl.com/yfb7ww48
Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, yet we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. While roads are so ubiquitous they’re practically invisible to us, wild animals experience them as alien forces of death and disruption. More than a million animals are killed by cars each day in the U.S. alone; creatures from antelope to salmon are losing their ability to migrate in search of food and mates; and the very noise of traffic chases songbirds from vast swaths of habitat. Today road ecologists are seeking to blunt that destruction through innovative solutions. Conservationists are building bridges for California’s mountain lions and tunnels for English toads, engineers are deconstructing the labyrinth of logging roads that web national forests, and community organizers are working to undo the havoc highways have wreaked upon American cities. In his talk, Ben Goldfarb will discuss the ecological harms wrought by transportation and the movement to redress them — and how we can create a better, safer world for all living beings.
About the Presenter
Ben Goldfarb is an environmental journalist whose work has appeared in National Geographic, the Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, and many other publications, and has twice been anthologized in the Best American Science & Nature Writing. His most recent book, Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet, was named one of the best books of 2023 by the New York Times and the New Yorker, and received the Rachel Carson Award for Excellence in Environmental Writing and the Banff Book Competition’s Grand Prize. His previous book, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, won the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. He lives in Colorado with his wife, Elise, and his dog, Kit — which is, of course, what you call a baby beaver.
