Targeting will include wading birds and wintering songbirds.

Leader: Katie Higgins (Kt.Higgins@uga.edu)

Difficulty: easy to moderate.

Meet in the parking lot of Skidaway Island United Methodist Church at 8:00am. From there we will carpool (if you like) into the park ($5 parking fee in the park will be in effect).

Meeting address: 54 Diamond Causeway, Savannah, GA 31411.

We’ll be searching for late migrants and early returning winter birds. Meet at the entrance at 8 am. (2680 August Stage Coach Road, Garnet , SC 29922)

Leader Steve Wagner (sjwgnr@hotmail.com) 912-655-0797

Difficulty easy to moderate with driving and walking.

Targeting fall migrants and year round residents . Meet at the entrance to Ft. McAllister at 8 am. $5 per car parking fee. Bring bug spray, hat and water. 3894 Fort McAllister Road, Rich mond Hill, GA 31324

Leader: Steve Fox sfox01@hotmail.com 912 596 4685.

Trip Rigor: moderate with extensive walking.

This field trip has been cancelled.

Target species include nesting Indigo and Painted Buntings , Summer Tanagers , and hopefully some feeding Mississippi and Swallow tailed Kites . Meet at the parking lot at the end of the gravel driveway leading into the park (near the restroom) at 8 :30 am.

Leader Pam Smith pavercel@comcast.net

Difficulty Moderate to Rigorous 3 miles of walking on rough paths.

We will take in the wading bird extravaganza as well as search for Painted Buntings and other nesting songbirds. Meet at the entrance to the refuge at 8 am.

Leader: Mary Lou Dickson

Difficulty: Easy to Moderate ; driving and walking.

Come to this often overlooked section of Savannah National Wildlife Refuge as we look for wading birds, summer songbirds, black bellied whistling ducks, and maybe a purple gallinule or two. Meet in the parking lot of Kingfisher Pond at 8am.

Leader Matt Tozer mctozer@yahoo.com

Difficulty: Moderate; walking on some uneven terrain.

Rte. 17 Hardeeville , SC 29927 (Just South of Shannon)

Meet at the Fountain and tour around Savannah’s beautiful and historic park watching for Spring Migrants.

Leader: Diana Churchill

Difficulty: Easy

Note: This year these walks are on Thursdays.

Targeting spring migrants. Meet in the parking lot of Skidaway Island United Methodist Church.

Leader Steve Fox sfox573@gmail.com.

Difficulty easy to moderate.

54 Diamond Causeway, Savannah, GA 31411.

Meet at the Fountain and tour around Savannah’s beautiful and historic park watching for Spring Migrants.

Leader: Diana Churchill

Difficulty: Easy

Note: This year these walks are on Thursdays.

Target species include Red-cockaded Woodpeckers, Bachman’s Sparrows, Indigo Buntings, Prothonotary Warblers and more. Meet at the entrance at 8 am.

Leader Steve Wagner sjwgnr@hotmail.com

Difficulty easy to moderate with driving and walking.

Meet at the Park entrance.

Leader: Susan DeRosa susanderosa55@gmail.com.

Difficulty - Easy.

Meet at the Fountain and tour around Savannah’s beautiful and historic park watching for Spring Migrants.

Leader: Diana Churchill

Difficulty: Easy

Note: This year these walks are on Thursdays.

Meet at the Fountain and tour around Savannah’s beautiful and historic park watching for Spring Migrants.

Leader: Diana Churchill

Difficulty: Easy

Note: This year these walks are on Thursdays.

We be on the lookout spring migrants and lingering winter birds.

Limit 12 people with advanced reservations required – Please email leader Chris Brown okstatevet92@gmail.com.

Leader: Chris Brown

Difficulty - Moderate with extensive walking.

5960 SR-17 Guyton, GA 31312

Meet at the Fountain and tour around Savannah’s beautiful and historic park watching for Spring Migrants.

Leader: Diana Churchill

Difficulty: Easy

Note: This year these walks are on Thursdays.

We will looking for lingering winter birds and early spring migrants. Meet at the entrance to Wormsloe at 8:30 am.

Limit 15 people with reservations required – THIS EVENT IS FULL

Ogeechee Audubon will be picking up the per person entry fee - usually $10 or $6 if we have 15 people.

Leader: Katie Higgins

Difficulty: Easy

7601 Skidaway Rd, Savannah, GA 31406

From the leader PamSmith pavercel@gmail.com :

The forecast is showing a severe storm risk - including damaging winds and the potential for tornados tomorrow morning. I've been watching the projected radar, and the storms will be over the Richmond Hill/Savannah area at the 8AM start of the field trip. Here's the weather alert for tonight/ tomorrow:

"Severe Thunderstorms: A line of strong thunderstorms is expected to move into southeast Georgia and southeast South Carolina late tonight. The primary threat with this line of thunderstorms will be damaging wind gusts, but a tornado or two will also be possible. The line of thunderstorms will shift offshore and the severe threat will end by mid morning Saturday."

If the forecast was simply a chance of rain, I have no problem moving forward with the field trip. However, I think it would be best to cancel the field trip due to the severe weather risk in the morning hours.

So stay home and stay safe tomorrow!!

Audubon has created a partnership with the Burton 4-H Center so we have a unique opportunity to visit the 4H Center as it is not open to the public. Meet at Jaycee Park at 8:30am. We will check the rock jetties for Ruddy Turnstones, and possibly a purple sandpiper, scan the ocean for loons and the skies for northern gannets, and visit the Center at low tide to look for feeding shorebirds, herons, and egrets and other wintering songbirds.

Leaders Diana Churchill & Erine-Fay McNaught. dichurchbirds@gmail.com / ccefmcnaught@gmail.com

Difficulty: moderate.

Meet at the Community Center within the Reserve on Hutchinson at 8:00 am. Target species Loggerhead Shrike, Eastern Meadowlark, American Kestrel, sparrows, and possibly Western Kingbird.

Leader Chris Brown christopher.r.brown@okstate.edu

Difficulty: Easy

This one is for the Early Birds! Meet at 6:15 am at Love’s Truck Stop at 8436 Ford Avenue in Richmond Hill. Difficulty Moderate. Target species are American Woodcock, Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Henslow’s Sparrow and more. Limit 15 people.

Leader Larry Carlile. l.carlile259@comcast.net.

Meet at 8 am at the right hand end of the main parking lot on Montgomery Cross Roads. We’ll be looking for returning ducks, sparrows, sapsuckers, kinglets and more.

Leader Larry Carlile l.carlile259@comcast.net

Trip Rigor: Easy; walking on paved path.

Meet at 8 am at the entrance to the Solomon Tract located at the end of EMD Blvd off O’Leary Road in Port Wentworth, GA. We will be looking for returning winter birds such as sapsuckers, kinglets, wrens, and more.

Leader Chris Brown, christopher.r.brown@okstate.edu

Trip Rigor: strenuous; 2-3 miles walking on uneven ground.

We are cancelling the Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021 field trip with Diana Churchill at Fort Pulaski National Monument. It was scheduled for 8:45am - 11:30am.

"A storm system is brewing up that threatens some gusty winds and coastal flooding. In fact, if the forecast holds, the water levels at the Fort Pulaski gauge are predicted to be in the top five water levels in the last 80 years, beating the October 2015 storm for the number four spot" -source: Enki Research

Additionally, Fort Pulaski National Monument will delay opening the park on Saturday and Sunday, November 6th and 7th until 12:00 PM.

Pre-registration required

This is a rare opportunity to visit this private property owned by the Cay family. It has a diversity of habitats including grassy fields, ponds, old rice trunks, pine forest and oak woodlands. Leader Diana Churchill. High clearance vehicles best with a limit of 5 vehicles. Masks required if carpooling, unless members of same household.

Leader Diana Churchill

Trip Rigor: Moderate

Pre-registration required
Please contact Diana at dichurchbirds@gmail.com or 912-604-7539 for directions and further details.

This event has been cancelled.

3533 E. River Road, Baxley GA 31513 (31.906717, -82.312408)

Old growth forest with excellent examples of long leaf pine-wiregrass and tupelo-cypress ecosystems.

Leader Matt Tozer.

Trip Rigor: Moderate to difficult; Be prepared to walk about 3 miles with some uneven ground.

Please RSVP to OgeecheeAudubon.help@gmail.com to help us gauge participation levels – Thank You!

Check out this new city park located behind Target near the Savannah Mall. Wheelchair accessible with a .7 mile paved trail around part of the lake with a good diversity of habitats.

Leader Pam Smith.

Trip Rigor: Easy.

Please RSVP to OgeecheeAudubon.help@gmail.com to help us gauge participation levels – Thank You!

We will be looking for gulls, terns, returning shorebirds, and more.

Be prepared to pay for parking. Download the "Park TYB" app for ease and convenience.

Leader: Diana Churchill

Trip rigor: Not listed

Meet at Jaycee Park Lot (30 Van Horne Ave, Tybee Island, GA 31328). End time of the field trip not listed.

Expected birds include painted and indigo buntings, summer tanagers, kites, raptors, rails and more. Bring water and a hat.

Leader: Pam A. Smith

Trip rigor: Not listed

Meet in the parking lot at the end of the gravel road that leads into the park in Richmond Hill (1700 Elbow Swamp Rd, Richmond Hill, GA 31324). End time of field trip not listed.