Seven Mountains

February Monthly Program (Winter Raptor Survey)
2023-02-15 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Halifax) | Kelly Township Building (551 Zeigler RD), 551 Zeigler RD, Lewisburg, PA, 17837
Wednesday, February 15 at 7PM
Seven Mountains Audubon’s Free Monthly Educational program will be held February 15th at 7pm at the Kelly Township Building, 551 Zeigler Road in Lewisburg. Greg Grove will give a talk about the Winter Raptor Survey held annually around Pennsylvania. He will bring us up-to-date on raptors found in Central PA, such as hawks, eagles and falcons, and discuss their relative abundance this year. This will be an in person lecture and also will be streamed on Seven Mountains Facebook page.

February Bird Walk (Turtle Creek Dog Park)
2023-02-04 08:00 - 10:00
Seven Mountains Audubon will hold its First Saturday Bird Walk February 4th at Turtle Creek Park (1248 Supplee Mill Rd, Lewisburg, PA). Led by birder Bill Malone, it will begin in the parking lot at 8 a.m. Conditions Saturday morning will likely be very cold and icy. Good winter boots are suggested for those attending.

Owls and the Wonder of the Night
2023-01-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Kelly Township Building (551 Zeigler RD), 551 Zeigler RD, Lewisburg, PA, 17837
Wednesday, January 18 at 7PM
The program will be in person, and also streamed on Facebook Live. Check the Seven Mountains Audubon Group to watch it at 7PM.
The program is:
“Owls and the Wonder of the Night”
Presented by: Joe Southerton
Joe Southerton is a retired Mifflinburg Middle School science teacher. However, for a few weeks in the fall and spring he continues to teach and enjoy working with the Mifflinburg Outdoor Education Program. Joe is married to Marirose, also a retired school teacher and together they have five children all who have careers in the education field. Along with being passionate about the bird world, Joe enjoys astronomy, and all other areas ofnatural history. In particular, he is fascinated with any critter that makes magical and frightening sounds at night.
Kelly Township Building
551 Ziegler Rd, Lewisburg, PA 17837-6319, United States

January First Saturday Walk (Montour Preserve)
2023-01-07 08:00 - 10:00
The first Saturday walk is this Saturday January 7th, Montour Preserve, 8AM Meet at Lower Goose Cove parking lot (closest to the lake and the dam)

December Show & Tell
2022-12-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Kelly Township Building (551 Zeigler RD), 551 Zeigler RD, Lewisburg, PA, 17837
7 p.m. on December 21st
The Seven Mountains chapter of Audubon invites folks to its December meeting and program, which will be a Holiday Show and Tell. Members share photos, stories or other interesting bird-related information. Seven Mountains meets at the Kelly Twp. Building on Ziegler Road in Lewisburg at 7 p.m. on December 21st. The public is very welcome; refreshments will be provided.

Photography Tips, with Mike Anderson
2022-11-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Kelly Township Building (551 Zeigler RD), 551 Zeigler RD, Lewisburg, PA, 17837
Wednesday, November 16 at 7PM
Bird enthusiast and wildlife photographer Mike Anderson will present effective photography tips that he uses in his own amazing work. Mike’s program will be presented in person as well as posted live on our Seven Mountains Audubon Facebook page. We meet at the Kelly Township Building, 551 Zeigler Rd., Lewisburg, PA.

Birding In Alaska (Canceled!)
2022-10-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Kelly Township Building (551 Zeigler RD), 551 Zeigler RD, Lewisburg, PA, 17837
Please note this event now has been canceled!
Seven Mountains Audubon Free Monthly Educational program will be October 19th at 7pm at the Kelly Township Building, 551 Zeigler Road in Lewisburg. Lauri Shaffer, well-known local birder and excellent photographer, will present a travelogue of birds and other creatures from her recent trip to Alaska.

Canceled! (October First Saturday Bird Walk)
2022-10-01 08:00 - 10:00
The bird walk scheduled for tomorrow (October 1) at the Trail of Trees in Selinsgrove has been canceled!

Tanzanian Safari Presentation
2022-09-21 19:30 - 21:00 | Kelly Township Building (551 Zeigler RD), 551 Zeigler RD, Lewisburg, PA, 17837
Wednesday, September 21
7-9PM
In-person at Kelly Township Building and live-streamed on Facebook

Experience a Tanzanian Safari with Linette Mansberger. Her focus will be on the birds, mammals and other wildlife of Arusha, Tarangire, Serengeti, and Lake Manyara National Parks and Ngoro Ngoro Conservation Area. Enjoy the photos of birds from the diminutiveand iridescent Variable Sunbird to the Common Ostrich. Learn about the Great Migration and see images of the many mammals – including herds of Burchell’s Zebras, a female Cheetah and her young cubs, Vervet Monkeys, and Epauletted Fruit Bats hanging in trees – and colorful lizards and butterflies that are being protected in these important ecological areas in northern Tanzania.

Lynette Mansfield

Lynette is retired kindergarten teacher and Vice President of South Mountain Audubon in Gettysburg. She is an amateur photographer who enjoys traveling to new and exotic locations. She says that sharing her photos is a fun way to educate others about places and nature that they might never see.

September First Saturday Bird Walk
2022-09-03 08:00 - 10:00
Saturday, September 3 at 8AM
Lauri Shaffer will be leading a bird walk at Montour Preserve. Meet at the first pavilion parking area above the educational center at 8AM.

August First Saturday Bird Walk
2022-08-06 08:00 - 10:00
Saturday, August 6, 2022
Meet at 8AM at RB Winter State Park in the parking lot by the west side of Halfway Lake. We will walk the Rapid Run Nature Trail, possibly more after this, depending on interest.

July First Saturday Bird Walk
2022-07-02 08:00 - 10:30 | Montour Preserve, 700 Preserve Rd, Danville, PA, 17821, United States
Saturday, July 2 at 8AM
Seven Mountains’ new president Bill Tyler will lead a walk at one of our favorite birding venues! Join us for an end- season look at birds and babies. Meet in the parking lot by the environmental center/visitor’s center.
A few pairs of binoculars are available for borrowing

Birds and Plants in the Natural World
2022-06-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Kelly Township Building (551 Zeigler RD), 551 Zeigler RD, Lewisburg, PA, 17837
Wednesday, June 15, 2022 at 7PM
Seven Mountains Audubon Monthly Educational program will be on June 15th at 7PM at Kelly Township building. Guest speaker will be Kerry Givens MD a nationally known bird photographer. His photographs have appeared in Sierra Club and Audubon magazines, as well as National Geographic. He has led a trip to Australia and each year has given a photography lecture at the Philadelphia Flower Show. Dr. Givens specializes in macrophotography, and his program will focus on birds, plants, and insects in the natural world. This will be an in person lecture and also will be Livestreamed on Seven Mountains Facebook page.

Susquehanna Riverkeepers (Zoom Presentation)
2022-05-18 19:00 - 21:00
Tomorrow night, Seven Mountains is pleased to present the Middle Susquehanna Riverkeeper, John Zaktanskiy, for our May program presenter. John has an interesting talk prepared on the River and its importance to people, birds and other creatures. We look forward to hearing him speak! Email info@sevenmountainsaudubon.org for the Zoom link to participate.

Canceled! May First Saturday Bird Walk
2022-05-07 07:30 - 10:00
Unfortunately, we are canceling the bird walk scheduled for tomorrow (Saturday, May 6) because of the anticipated heavy rain.

April Saturday Bird Walk
2022-04-02 08:00 - 10:00 | Montour Preserve, 700 Preserve Rd, Danville, PA, 17821, United States
Saturday, April 2 at 8AM
Meet at Montour Preserve at the Goose Cove parking lot.

March Saturday Bird Walk (Dale's Ridge)
2022-03-05 08:00 - 22:30
8AM Saturday, March 5, 2022
Leader will be John Peeler. If the switchbacks are still icy, we can go up past the house, but I see no snow or ice in the forecast for the next couple of weeks. Meet at 8AM at Dale’s Ridge.

February Saturday Bird Walk Cancelled!
2022-02-05 08:00 - 10:00
Unfortunately, the bird walk previously scheduled for tomorrow morning (February 5) at the Trail of Trees has been cancelled because of very icy conditions.

Nature Photography—Keeping it Simple
2022-01-19 19:00 - 21:00
Wednesday, January 19th, 2022
7PM (Virtual Event via Zoom)
The Seven Mountains Audubon Educational Program for January 19th, 2022 will be by Zoom. Lauri Shaffer will present on “Nature Photography—Keeping it Simple.” Many tips for getting great photos with a Zoom camera or handheld DSLR will be shared for the beginning or intermediate photographer. Lauri is an avid birder and has been photographing birds and nature for about 12 years, with the purpose of sharing the excitement of new discoveries through her nature blog, programs, and photos on social media.
To register for this Zoom presentation send a request to “falconrider1@ymail.com”

Lewisburg Christmas Bird Count
2021-12-18
December 18, 2021
The Lewisburg Christmas Bird Count will be held on Saturday, December 18, 2021.
Please let me know if you will, might, or will not be able to participate.
This year National Audubon asked us not to schedule the count until November 15 so that more local information on Covid might be available. I’m not sure that helped, since nobody knows yet what conditions will be like a month from now.
Also, like last year, National Audubon requests that only related family members accompany each other during the count. This is certainly an abundance of caution, and I leave it to you individually to determine how appropriate this advice is to you.
Spread the word. Once I have a reasonable tally of those who expect to participate I will create and distribute maps of “territories” for the count day.
One thing we all can do in Covid times is get outdoors!
Allen

December Show and Tell
2021-12-15 19:00 - 21:00
Wednesday, December 15, 2021 AT 7 PM
Seven Mountains Audubon invite all to December meeting which is Show and Tell. Meeting was successful last year on Zoom so will be done again at 7 pm on Wednesday December 15th. As is our tradition, we will share all types of nature related items – including photos, books, etc. If you have items to share write to Kay Cramer at falconrider1@ymail.com and also if intend to attend and have not before write to her to get the link for Zoom. All are welcome.

Cancelled Event! Wednesday, November 17 Presentation
2021-11-17 19:00 - 21:00
The virtual monthly presentation “Healing Waters That Heal Others” scheduled for Wednesday, November 17 at 7PM has been canceled! It may be rescheduled at a later date.

Saturday Nov. 6th Bird Walk (Montour Preserve)
2021-11-06 09:00 - 11:00
Please join Seven Mountains Audubon on Saturday, Nov. 6th, as Mike Anderson leads us on a bird walk through Montour Preserve. Meet by the boat at 9 a.m. Go past the entrance where the education building is, take your next left (sportsman road) The boat launch will be on your left about an 1/8 up sportsman road. Happy birding!

Minnesota's Sax-Zim Bog & the "Invasion of the Vole Snatchers"
2021-10-20 19:00 - 21:00
Wednesday, October 20 at 7PM
For ZOOM link, Email: falconrider1@ymail.com
Minnesota’s Sax-Zim Bog & the “Invasion of the Vole Snatchers”
After an Introduction to the Sax-Zim Bog and why it’s the “magic mix” for boreal birds, we’ll learn about the Invasion each winter of “vole snatchers”: Great Gray Owls, Hawk Owls, Boreal Owls, Northern Shrikes, hawks, ermine, marten, fox, coyote and more survive and thrive on a diet of voles. And we’ll also enjoy some HD video of these critters actually snatching voles. We’ll also touch on the work of Friends of Sax-Zim Bog to preserve over 4,000 acres of bog lands for future generations of birds and birders.
Bio
Sparky Stensaas is the founder and executive director of Friends of Sax-Zim Bog (www.SaxZim.org) a non-profit to preserve bog lands for future generations of birds and birders. A birder since age 13, Sparky is also a naturalist, publisher, wildlife photographer and now YouTuber (really?). He is the author of 6 books on the natural history of the North Woods. Sparky, his wife, Bridget, and two sons, Birk and Bjorn make their home under the big pines in the Nemadji Valley of Carlton County, Minnesota.You can see more of Sparky’s images at www.ThePhotoNaturalist.com and his videos on YouTube “Sparky Stensaas”

October Saturday Bird Walk
2021-10-02 08:00 - 10:00
Saturday, October 2 at 8AM
Seven Mountains Audubon will host a Walk in Penn’s Woods as one of its First Saturday Birdwalks. The trail we will use in R.B. Winter State Park is reasonably well-maintained with some graveled portions and some ups and downs, though it is all low to moderate in effort. We expect to see a good selection of migrating fall warblers, with maybe some raptors and woodland birds like woodcocks thrown in. Estimated mileage about 3 mi at a slow pace. Meet at the parking lot off Rt. 192 at Halfway Run at 8AM and we will caravan to the trailhead. This walk is not stroller or wheelchair accessible.

Hidden Gems of the Neotropics by Linette Mansberger (Masks Required for In-person Attendance!)
2021-09-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Kelly Township Building (551 Zeigler RD), 551 Zeigler RD, Lewisburg, PA, 17837
September 15 at 7PM (Kelly Township Supervisors’ Building and virtually through Facebook Live)
Masks are required for in-person attendance! We will have masks available at the door.
Take a photographic journey to some of the less traveled areas of the Neotropics – the near (yet so far away) magical island of Cuba, the majestic Iguaçu Falls and the vast Pantanal area of Brazil, the tiny islands of Trinidad and Tobago that are so far south they are nearly part of the mainland continent of South America, and the western highlands of Panama where most mornings start with temperatures cold enough to need a sweatshirt! Linette Mansberger, avid traveler and amateur photographer, will share some of the most beautiful, colorful, and interesting aspects of nature she found in these places where birds, butterflies, and other wildlife abound.

First Saturday September Bird Walk
2021-09-04 08:00 - 10:00
Saturday, September 4 at 7:45AM
Seven Mountains Audubon will lead a bird walk at Dale’s Ridge outside of Lewisburg, PA. For carpooling or caravans from Lewisburg, meet at the northernmost part of Weis Parking lot, behind the Weis Gas station at 7:45AM or meet at Dale’s Ridge at 8AM.

August Saturday Bird Walk
2021-08-07 07:30 - 10:00
Saturday, August 7 at 8:00AM
Seven Mountains Audubon will lead a bird walk at the “Trail of Trees” in Snyder County.
For carpooling or caravans from Lewisburg, meet at the northernmost part of Weis Parking lot, behind the Weis Gas station at 7:30AM.

You can also meet us at the “Trail of Trees” at 8AM (500 Old Colony Rd, Selinsgrove, PA 17870).

July Saturday Bird Walk
2021-07-03 08:00 - 10:00
Saturday, July 3 at Montour Preserve
Seven Mountains Audubon’s next bird walk will be led by Lauri Shaffer (Meet at Goose Bay Pavilion at 8AM).
For carpooling or caravans from Lewisburg, meet at the northernmost part of Weis Parking lot, behind the Weis Gas station. We will leave no later than 7:25am.

Ask Audubon Native Plant Sale
2021-06-23 10:00 - 11:00
Wednesday, June 23 at 10 AM at the far end of the Natural Foods Store parking lot.
Ask Audubon about how you can help sustain and encourage birds and insects. We will be available June 23rd from 10-3 at the Natural Food and Garden Store on Route 45 in Lewisburg. Members of Seven Mountains Audubon can help answer questions about matching your desired bird or butterfly with particular plants and our Bird-Friendly Blooms partner, Steve Kidd, who owns Perennial Gardens Nursery, will be available for in-depth information about the native plants he sells.
