Seven Mountains

Pennsylvania Bird Atlas
2024-09-19 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Halifax)
September 18, 2024 at 7:00PM
Joe Gyekis will share his experience documenting breeding birds in central Pennsylvania, from the purpose of mapping to the experience of watching courtship, nest building, incubation, and feeding young. Known to many Seven Mountains Audubon members, Joe is a health science professor at Penn State and a lifelong birder, with special interests in local patch listing, nocturnal flight calls, and bird-window collisions. He is the Union County coordinator for the Third Pennsylvania Bird Atlas.
The presentation will also be streamed live on our Facebook Page.
East Buffalo Township Municipal Building
589 Fairground Road
Lewisburg, PA

First Saturday Bird Walk: Turtle Creek Park
2024-10-05 08:00 - 10:00
Saturday, October 5 at 8AM
Meet at the Parking Lot.Walk Leader is Bill Malone.
1095 Supplee Mill Rd, Lewisburg, PA 17837, United States

"Borneo: The Land Below the Wind" - Linette Mansbarger
2024-10-16 19:00 - 21:00 | East Buffalo Township Municipal Building, 589 Fairground Road, Lewisburg, PA, 7837, United States
Wednesday, October 16 at 7PM
This presentation takes us to Sabah, Malaysia in Borneo! Orangutans, proboscis monkeys, hornbills, flowerpeckers, spiderhunters, flying frogs, flying lizards, giant squirrels, and giant bumblebees—these are just some of the amazing animals you will meet through the lens of amateur photographer Linette Mansberger as she shares images and information from her 2019 visit to the northern area of the tropical island of Borneo in southeast Asia.

Our meeting place is the East Buffalo Township Municipal Building, 589 Fairgrounds Road, Lewisburg. We will continue to stream presentations on Facebook Live, but hope to see you in person. Everyone is welcome to this free event and please feel free to bring a friend or two. Stay afterward to enjoy some refreshments and chat.

East Buffalo Township Supervisor Building

589 Fairground Rd, Lewisburg, PA 17837-8832, United States

November First Saturday Bird Walk (Trail of Trees)
2024-11-02 08:00 - 22:00
Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024, 8AM
First Saturday Bird Walk for Nov. 2, 2024, 8AM at Trail of Trees. Kay Cramer is the Walk Leader. Everyone is welcome.

2 Salem Glenn Blvd, Selinsgrove, PA 17870-7819, United States

November Program: Life in a Nest Box
2024-11-20 19:00 - 21:00 | East Buffalo Township Municipal Building, 589 Fairground Road, Lewisburg, PA, 7837, United States
Wednesday, November 20 at 7PM
Life in a Nest Box:American Kestrels and Barn Owls
Jon Kauffman will present an in depth look of the breeding behavior of American Kestrels and Barn Owls through live nestcam footage. Jon promotes conservation through citizen science projects such as Project NestWatch, Monarch Watch, winter raptor surveys, and seasonal hawk watches at Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center. He has served as a hawk-watcher for Tussey Mountain Hawk Watch and has also traveled and worked with other organizations such as Cape May Bird Observatory and Intermountain Bird Observatory in Idaho. When not sitting on a ridgetop observing hawk migration, you can find him exploring new habitats and discovering the interrelationship between the flora and fauna through avian life.

Join us at our meeting location, the East Buffalo Township building, 589 Fairground Road, Lewisburg. We will continue to stream this and other in person presentations on Facebook Live. Everyone is welcome to this free event and please feel free to come and bring a friend or two. Stay afterward to enjoy refreshments and chat.
589 Fairground Rd – Lewisburg, PA

Life in a Nest Box
2024-11-20 19:00 - 21:00 | East Buffalo Township Municipal Building, 589 Fairground Road, Lewisburg, PA, 7837, United States
Wednesday, November 20 at 7PM

American Kestrels and Barn Owls
Jon Kauffman will present an in depth look of the breeding behavior of American Kestrels and Barn Owls through live nestcam footage. Jon promotes conservation through citizen science projects such as Project NestWatch, Monarch Watch, winter raptor surveys, and seasonal hawk watches at Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center. He has served as a hawk-watcher for Tussey Mountain Hawk Watch and has also traveled and worked with other organizations such as Cape May Bird Observatory and Intermountain Bird Observatory in Idaho. When not sitting on a ridgetop observing hawk migration, you can find him exploring new habitats and discovering the interrelationship between the flora and fauna through avian life.

Join us at our meeting location, the East Buffalo Township building, 589 Fairground Road, Lewisburg. We will continue to stream this and other in person presentations on Facebook Live. Everyone is welcome to this free event and please feel free to come and bring a friend or two. Stay afterward to enjoy refreshments and chat.
See you on the 20th!

December Show & Tell
2024-12-18 19:00 - 21:00 | East Buffalo Township Municipal Building, 589 Fairground Road, Lewisburg, PA, 7837, United States
Wednesday, December 18th 7PM

Greetings everyone – It’s the time of year for us to gather for our Holiday Show-and-Tell program which will be held on Wednesday, December 18th. The meeting begins at 7:00 pm, but the doors will be open earlier.

As is our tradition, we will share all sorts of nature-related items – photographs, books, poems, quotes, crafts or whatever else you can imagine! We hope you will bring something to share with our group. If you prefer not to, still come and enjoy the camaraderie of the season. If you have photographs to share, please try to arrive by around 6:30 so that picture files can be loaded on the computer in advance.

We will have holiday refreshments too so plan to stay afterward and visit awhile.

Join us at our meeting location, the East Buffalo Township building, 589 Fairground Road, Lewisburg. We will continue to stream this and other in person presentations on Facebook Live. Everyone is welcome to this free event and please feel free to come and bring a friend or two.
Happy Holidays – see you on the 18th!

CANCELLED! First Saturday Bird Walk at Glacial Pools Preserve
2024-12-30 08:30 - 2025-01-04 11:30 | Glacial Pools Preserve, 757 Pine Tree Rd, Hughesville, PA, 17737-8884, United States
CANCELLED! Please note this event has now been cancelled!

Jessie Sauder is the Walk Leader. Becky Stugart is the Trail Guide.
757 Pine Tree Rd, Hughesville, PA 17737-8884

January Presentation: History of Penn State Herbarium
2025-01-15 19:00 - 21:00 | East Buffalo Township Municipal Building, 589 Fairground Road, Lewisburg, PA, 7837, United States
Wednesday, January 15 at 7PM
Penn State Herbarium Curator Sarah Chamberlain will guide us through the history of the herbarium from its humble beginnings as one of the oldest collections at Penn State to its present position as the third largest herbarium in Pennsylvania. Ms. Chamberlain will discuss why herbarium specimens are important and their current uses for both research and teaching. She will also bring specimens for examination after the presentation. Told with historic photos and sprinkled with humor and interesting stories tying specimens to history, art, entomology, and the “8th Wonder of the World”, this engaging virtual tour of the Penn State Herbarium will convince you herbarium collections are a lot more than just a bunch of dead plants!

Our meeting place is the East Buffalo Township building, 589 Fairgrounds Road, Lewisburg. We will continue to stream presentations on Facebook Live, but hope to see you in person. Everyone is welcome to this free event and please feel free to bring a friend or two. Stay afterward to enjoy some refreshments and chat.

See you on the 15th.

Northwest Winds: Winds of Change, Winds of Hope?
2025-02-05 12:00 - 13:00
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 12 PM

Join us for our February Lunch & Learn presentation with Clay Sutton. Clay was the Plenary speaker for our 50th anniversary conference in November in Duluth, MN and we’d like to share his fabulous presentation with the wider hawk-watching community!
Clay Sutton will reflect upon his own 50 years of watching hawks, primarily at Cape May, New Jersey, but also at many of the key raptor watches throughout North America and beyond. He relates “What a long, strange trip it has been,” and how in his wildest dreams he never expected to see, in his lifetime, the changes that he has witnessed. Many changes have been good and for the better, and some not so much. We have benefited greatly from emerging resources, and have been the benefactors of amazing advances in optics, information, and technology. We have all seen changes in the composition of raptor flights, and changes in the very expectations of what we may see. We have experienced significant shifts in the migration phenology and winter ranges of hawks. But what hasn’t changed is the energy, dedication, and enthusiasm of those who annually staff their posts, climbing to mountain outcrops, urban overlooks, sandy beaches, and lighthouses at land’s end to monitor and celebrate the annual passage of birds of prey. Clay will conclude that the 21 st Century may have brought great changes, but that shifting winds will never diminish the need, or our passion, for what we do.
Clay Sutton is a life-long resident of Cape May County, New Jersey, where he has worked as an environmental planner, environmental program administrator, vice-president of an environmental consulting firm specializing in threatened and endangered species. Now “mostly retired,” he spent the last past two decades as a self-employed environmental consultant, field biologist, and naturalist. Clay is a free-lance writer, lecturer, tour leader, and was a long-time instructor for the Institute for Field Ornithology. He first began watching hawks in 1974, and the science and wonder of bird migration has remained his captivating interest.
Clay is a co-author, with Pete Dunne and David Sibley, of the classic Hawks in Flight (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1988; Second Edition, 2012), a complete and holistic guide to raptor identification. Clay has long been proudly associated with HMA, and has been a member since 1979.Clay and his wife Pat Sutton co-authored How to Spot Butterflies (1999), How to Spot Hawks & Eagles (1996), and How to Spot an Owl (1994), all published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Their acclaimed book, Birds and Birding at Cape May (Stackpole Books, 2006, 568 pages), is the in-depth result of their efforts over many years documenting and protecting the migration and the area that they so love. This landmark book is a complete guide to birds and birding for the Cape May region, covering what to see, when, where, and how to go, as well as chronicling the unique and storied ornithological history of the Jersey Cape.
This program is FREE and open to all. Registration is required, please click the link below to register.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtd-mgqj4pGdCj7gqvhFwoPz-AFA-Cfwa8#/
For those not able to join via Zoom, we will live stream the program on our HMANA Facebook page as well. Recordings of all programs will be available on our website, hmana.org, following the event.

A Trip to Falkland Islands, South Georgia and Antarctica: Birds, Wildlife, and History by Cindy Coup
2025-02-19 19:00 - 21:00 | East Buffalo Township Municipal Building, 589 Fairground Road, Lewisburg, PA, 7837, United States
Wednesday, February 19 at 7 PM
Seven Mountains Audubon February Educational Meeting – Wednesday February 19, 2025 at 7PM. Cindy Coup will present her trip to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and Antarctica including birds, wildlife, history, scenery and a summary of the experience.
589 Fairground Rd, Lewisburg, PA 17837-8832, United States

Link to Video Tribute to Jack McCann/Educational Program
2025-02-26 08:00 - 17:00
Link to video recording of Seven Mountains Audubon Educational Meeting 2/19/25 Tribute to Jack McCann, Announcements, including upcoming programs and The Feature Presentation Antarctica, Falkland Islands and S Georgia Island – a 3 week journey by Cindy Coup. Cindy had wonderful photos and video or birds, other wildlife and scenery to share from this journey.

March First Saturday Bird Walk at Montour Preserve
2025-03-01 08:00 - 10:00 | Montour Preserve, 700 Preserve Rd, Danville, PA, 17821, United States
Saturday, March 1, 2025 at 8 AM
Walk Leader is Bryce Perles.
Montour Preserve – Lower Goose Cove Parking Lot, where we usually meet.

Weds. 3/19/25 7PM (Zoom) "The Black Skimmer Project" Seven Mtns Educational Mtg by Elena Duran
2025-03-19 19:00 - 21:00
Elena Duran will present results of a Black Skimmer chick mortalityevent investigation and the implications for the understanding ofemerging zoonotic diseases, coastal bird species management, and conservation. Elena received her B.S. in Wildlife Ecology & Conservation from the University of Florida, followed by her M.S. in Conservation Medicine from the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. She is currently a PhD candidate at Texas A&M University under Dr. Jacquelyn Grace. Her research involves understanding how environmental stressors (disease, temperature, contaminants) impact avian health and physiology. This will be a Zoom Meeting

To register for this event, please use the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/zgZrLKfhR7yYmgL8AWtjsg?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1TE2-sGC1H5ysnVZgMb6BzmPv011r_0r-Tf1x3T9ePXViMEzDDosfJkB4_aem_tDgz-8HGxxrJsQIJyv4dIQ

Cancelled! First Saturday Bird Walk at Jeremy Napp Farm
2025-04-05 08:00 - 10:00
The bird walk scheduled for today has been canceled due to early steady rain.
Saturday, April 5 at 8AM
Seven Mountains Audubon, Monthly First Saturday Bird Walk. This is a new location hosted by Jeremy Napp and Juliana Brafa at Jeremy Napp’s Farm. The Walk Leader is Jessica Sauder.
2050 Felmey Rd, Winfield, PA 17889, United States

"The Beautiful Eastern Bluebird" presented by Dick Hess. Seven Mts. Education Mtg.
2025-04-16 19:00 - 21:00 | East Buffalo Township Municipal Building, 589 Fairground Road, Lewisburg, PA, 7837, United States
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 7PM
Please join us for “The Beautiful Eastern Bluebird” by Richard “Dick” Hess. Mr. Hess retired from PPL Montour Preserve after 25 years of doing Land Management, public programs and law enforcement with the Pennsylvania Fish Commission. Interested in photography from the age of 10, Dick started taking pictures while in the U.S. Navy, eventually purchasing professional grade equipment and specializing in wildlife photography. Most of his pictures are taken at his farm near Exchange, PA. His photography and this program, which he has refined for several years, are exceptional.
Our meeting place is the East Buffalo Township building, 589 Fairgrounds Road, Lewisburg, PA. We will continue to stream presentations on Facebook Live, but hope to see you in person. Everyone is welcome to this free event and please feel free to bring a friend or two. Stay afterward to enjoy some refreshments and chat.

May First Saturday Bird Walk (United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg)
2025-05-03 08:00 - 10:00
Saturday, May 3, 2025 at 8AM
EVERYONE IS INVITEDDon’t get lost! Go through the Front Gate and take the very first left. When you come to a stop at a “Y” take another left. This will take you down along Buffalo Creek to the Training Center parking lot.
We usually can expect to see some warblers, Red-headed Woodpeckers, both Baltimore Orioles and Orchard Orioles, various ducks, eagles, and other song birds.

United States Penitentiary

2400 Robert F Miller Dr, Lewisburg, PA

May Educational Meeting - Dermatology for Birders by Dr. Eric Hossler
2025-05-21 19:00 - 21:00 | East Buffalo Township Municipal Building, 589 Fairground Road, Lewisburg, PA, 7837, United States
Wednesday May 21, 25 at 7PM
Dr. Eric Hossler will present an illustration and discussion of dermatologic conditions of potential importance to Birders, including Lyme Disease and other skin rashes. In addition to domestic birding, the presentation will also include some conditions like Leishmaniasis and Myiasis that could be encountered on birding trips to Central and South America or other tropical locations. The intent is inform, not alarm you. Dr Hossler is the Director of the Geisinger Dermatology Residency Program which includes 12 Residents in Training. He is a Board-Certified Dermatologist and Dermatopathologist.
789 Fairground Rd, Lewisburg, PA 17837

Re-scheduled Bird Walk at Jeremy Napp Farm (May 31)
2025-05-31 08:00 - 10:00
Saturday May 31, 2025 at 8AM
Re-scheduled previously rained out Bird Walk. This is a new location hosted by Jeremy Napp and Juliana Brafa at Jeremy Napp’s Farm. The Walk Leader is Jessica Sauder.
2052 Felmey Rd, Winfield, PA 17889, United States

First Saturday Bird Walk for June - RB Winter State Park. Joe Gyekis is the Walk Leader.
2025-06-07 08:30 - 11:00
Saturday, June 7, 8:30-11AM
Meet in the Parking Lot near the Environmental Learning Center (see map)GPS Coordinates: 40°59’39.7″N 77°11’24.0″W

Furnace Road Trash Pickup (Date Changed to June 21)
2025-06-21 10:00 - 12:00
Saturday June 21, 2025 10AM-Noon
Please note the new date for this rescheduled event.
Meet at 4275 Furnace Road.
Semi-annual Seven Mountains Community Service Event.
Please Volunteer to Help.
Safety Vests, Work Gloves, Trash Bags and Pole gripper devices will be provided.

BIRD WALK CANCELLED! September First Saturday Bird Walk
2025-09-06 08:00 - 11:00
BIRD WALK CANCELLED FOR TODAY – DUE TO ANTICIPATED WEATHER CONDITIONS

Montour Preserve. Saturday, September 6 at 8AM. Meet in the Goose Cove Parking Lot (closest to the dam). Walk Leader is Court Harding. Montour Environmental Preserve, 700 Preserve Rd, Turbotville, PA 17772, United States.

Winging It Near Water
2025-09-17 19:00 - 21:00
Wednesday, September 17 at 7PM
“Winging It Near Water.” With a photographic presentation, Linette Mansberger will showcase birds that are found near various water habitats in south central Pennsylvania. She will teach about the families of birds that frequent wetlands, ponds, streams, etc., and some of the birds’ unique characteristics. Also included will be a few remarkable birds from water environs around the world.

Join us at our meeting location, the East Buffalo Township building, 589 Fairground Road, Lewisburg.

Tuesday, 9/30/25, 7:30 p.m. National Geographic Live: "From Roots to Canopy", Weis Center, Bucknell
2025-09-30 19:30 - 21:00
National Geographic Live:
From Roots to Canopy
Tuesday, Sept. 30, 7:30 p.m.
National Geographic Explorer at Large Nalini Nadkarni
interweaves her research on rainforest canopy biota with
innovative public engagement. A biology professor at the
University of Utah, she has written 150 scientific papers and
books, and has presented new insights on the importance of
canopy plants in ecosystem processes — and the effects of
human activities on forest diversity and function. There will be a small local Expo in the Weis Center Atrium from 6:20PM – 7:30 PM. Susquehanna Greenway Partnership, Middle Susquehanna Riverkeeper, Seven Mountains Audubon, Linn Conservancy, and DCNR/R.B. Winter State Park. are participating.

October Saturday Bird Walk at Trail of Trees
2025-10-04 08:00 - 10:00
Saturday, October 4, 2025 at 8AM
Walk Leaders Kay Cramer and Jessica Sauder
GPS coordinates: 40°49’23.6″N 76°53’49.2″W (click link or copy and paste the GPS coordinates into Google, then click on the Red Pin icon for driving directions)

Virtual Educational Meeting "Raptor Quest" by Scott Harris
2025-10-15 19:00 - 21:00
The Zoom recording for Raptor Quest is now available.
Wednesday, October 15 at 7PM
Zoom only Educational Meeting
Registration Required. Click here to register for the Zoom Link.
“RaptorQuest,
Chasing America’s Raptors” is about my
journey to find all 53 of the Raptors that
call the Lower 48 states home. I did find all
53, along with a Bat Falcon, a Steller’s Sea
Eagle, and an Eurasian Eagle Owl. I took 17
months and traveled more than 100,000
miles across 34 states. In my presentation,
I share my successes and failures . . . . It’s
about the Raptors, of course, but it’s also
about the people I met, the things I
learned, and why I’m already in the middle
of my next big birding adventure.”
We will also be viewing and projecting the Zoom Meeting at 7PM at the East Buffalo Township Municipal Building, 589 Fairground Road, Lewisburg,PA, if you prefer that option.

Saturday 11/1/25 - First Saturday Bird Walk , Montour Preserve
2025-11-01 08:00 - 10:00
Saturday, November 1 at 8AM
Court Harding is the walk leader.
NOTE THE LOCATION CHANGE DUE TO HUNTING SEASON. Meet in the usual location i.e. the lower Goose Cove Parking Lot.

Celebrity Shorebirds at Presque Isle by Mary Birdsong - 11/19/2025 Monthly Educational Meeting (Zoom)
2025-11-19 19:00 - 21:00
Nov 19, 2025 – 7:00 PM
Celebrity Shorebirds: Piping Plovers and Common Terns at Presque Isle after a 60-year absence, Piping Plovers are now once again calling Gull Point at Presque Isle State Park their summer home. Nesting there since 2017, they have contributed to the endangered Great Lakes population in a meaningful way and afforded us the opportunity to learn more about these charismatic shorebirds. They have also provided moments of deep sadness as well as sublime joy. Mary Birdsong, co-founder and Lead Shorebird Monitor for Erie Bird Observatory, will provide an overview of Erie Bird Observatory programs as well as information about the Great Lakes population of Piping Plovers, including highlights from the last nine years of monitoring. She will also talk about Common Terns, who have also attempted to nest at Gull point and were finally successful.

Click here for the recording of this presentation.
Register now for the Zoom Link.

Wednesday, 12/17/2025 Annual Christmas Party with Show and Tell
2025-12-17 19:00 - 21:00 | East Buffalo Township Municipal Building, 589 Fairground Road, Lewisburg, PA, 7837, United States
Wednesday, 12/17/2025 at 7PM
Please join us for this Seven Mountains Audubon Annual Event and plan to share in the Show and Tell Program. You can upload photos or Powerpoint files to Google Drive using the following link: https://drive.google.com/…/1wkanb0yq-rD7xRBO4pec_x…. You can also bring photos and files on a portable thumb drive to be loaded on the the projection computer. Treats and Bonnie’s famous Lime Sherbet Christmas Punch will be provided; There will be door prizes also
East Buffalo Township Municipal Building
589 Fairground Rd, Lewisburg, PA 17837-8832, United States

January 3, 2026, 8:30 AM - First Saturday Birding Event
2026-01-03 08:30 - 10:00 | Montour Preserve, 700 Preserve Rd, Danville, PA, 17821, United States
Montour Preserve
January 3, 2026, 8:30 AM
Montour Environmental Preserve, 700 Preserve Rd, Turbotville, PA 17772, United States
Meet at the Visitor Center Parking Lot. This will be an indoor event. We will review and have hands on use of new touch screen electronic equipment. We will do a 1 hour eBird List at the Visitor Center Feeders. Multiple feeders are up and stocked. Download the eBird App on your smart phone. It is Free. (Good opportunity to learn to use eBird). We will also have a spotting scope available at the Feeder Windows. Also, there will be an indoor Raptor Identification Contest with prizes. (bring your binoculars). (The Lake and Ponds are frozen and temperatures with wind chill are sub-freezing)
