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Welcome
"The Richmond Audubon Society promotes the enjoyment, understanding, and preservation of birds, other wildlife and habitat through birding, education, advocacy, and fellowship."
Come Join Us
You are invited to join this active organization in our appreciation of birds. We offer frequent bird watching field trips and MEETINGS, members meetings and an array of bird related resources, plus local bird news articles. We welcome everyone who has an interest in our feathered friends, from the casual back yard birders and kids, to life-long birding veterans. Most all RAS sponsored MEETINGS are open to both members and non-members; visitors are always welcome and encouraged to participate. A Richmond Audubon Society chapter membership includes benefits like: automatic membership in the National Audubon Society, a subscription to "Audubon" magazine a bimonthly national publication, our local "Thrasher" newsletter (now available online), chapter meetings, premeeting fellowship dinner and activities, volunteer opportunities available through an array of active RAS committees, Important Bird Areas (IBAs) support, youth outreach, fund raising, annual picnic, annual pot luck dinner and auction, plus access to RAS website, and RAS Listserv and more. The current issue of Richmond Audubon Society's newsletter "The Thrasher" is now available online, plus archives of back issues. Use the search page to find the information you are looking for quickly. Visit the all new RAS Kids Corner and Members Area, then see "For The Birds" for a wide array of birding tools from housing and feeder maintenance to photography tips. Please contact us with your suggestion and comments.
FOR CURRENT MEMBERSHIP MEETING INFORMATION VISIT:
FIELD TRIPS AND MEETINGS
What's New?
NEW! "Thrasher" Newsletter - Summer Issue
SEE: THE THRASHER NEWSLETTER
BIRD BANDING DEMO DAYS coming Saturday, September 12 and Saturday, October 3, 2009. at Dutch Gap. More details to come. Save the dates.
SEE: BIRD BANDING
NEW! ARBOR DAY AT SWANSBORO ELEMENTRY
READ: ARBOR DAY ARTICLE.
SEE: PHOTOS OF ARBOR DAY
SEE: TogetherGreen TREE PLANTING EVENT PHOTOS AND VIDEO
ALSO NEW: RAS KIDS AT THE GREAT BIG GREEN HOUSE
Announcements
Audubon Magazine Announces Call for Entries for the Audubon Magazine Photography Awards: Birds in Focus
Audubon magazine is launching the 2009 Audubon Magazine Photography Awards: Birds in Focus, created to celebrate the beauty and diversity of birdlife through the art of photography, and to honor the exceptional work of talented professional, amateur and youth photographers from all over the U.S. Parlay your passion for birds into a dream trip to Peru, Australia, or Honduras, or win professional photo gear, in Audubon’s first photography awards. Each participant can submit up to 10 bird images, so you have 10 chances to win. Your winning entry will appear in the January-February issue of Audubon and in Nature’s Best Photography. Here’s your chance to see your images soar to the top. Enter now! Enter: May 15 to July 15, 2009. Categories: Professional, Amateur, Youth (ages 13-17). In Association with Nature’s Best Photography Magazine. Awards Sponsored by Nikon.
FOR MORE DETAILS SEE: NATIONAL AUDUBON PHOTO CONTEST
Volunteer Opportunity With RAS Kids
July:
Friday, 7/3 James River Park Nature Center
Friday, 7/10 Tree Climbing/hiking at Pony Pasture
Thursday, 7/16 Kayaking at Dutch Gap
Friday, 7/24 Ropes Course in Church Hill
Thursday, 7/30 Kayaking at Dutch Gap
August
Friday, 8/7 Ropes Course in Church Hill
Friday, 8/14 Tree Climbing/hiking
Thursday, 8/20 Fishing/Water exploration with Anne Wright at Fish Hatchery
NEW! SEE: PHOTOS FROM RAS KIDS AT SWANSBORO
Contact Donna Cottingham for more information or to volunteer at (804) 794-9202 or carolina_donna@yahoo.com
TogetherGreen - Tree Planting Presquile Event:
See PHOTOS and VIDEOS of participating Richmond Audubon members along with other community participants at the recent tree planting TogetherGreen event on our adopted conservation area. See us making a difference in our local commumity.
SEE: TogetherGreen TREE PLANTING EVENT
May 21 Membership Meeting Program:
Naseem Reza will present a program on Hawaii birding. You will enjoy the great images from Lou and Naseem’s trip.
SEE: Field Trips And Meetings FOR MORE INFO
The Moon In June – Nightjar Survey: Volunteers Needed
The Center for Conservation Biology in Williamsburg is looking for volunteers to conduct annuals surveys of nightjars—whip-poor-wills, chuck-will’s-widows, and common nighthawks in our area. There is concern that this enigmatic group of birds is in decline, and data collected from the surveys will help biologists formulate a conservation plan. Because the nocturnal behaviors of nightjars are strongly influenced by moonlight, the 2009 survey window has been set for May 31 through June 15—one week before and one week after the full moon. Please go to www.ccb-wm.org/nightjars.htm for more information and complete instructions on how you can help CCB help the birds—and have some fun on a moonlit night in June.
Lions Club Canoe-a-thon
To be held on May 16 at 9:30 a.m. See The Thrasher for details on Page 3.
ALSO SEE: : Field Trips And Meetings FOR MORE INFO
The RAS Annual Picnic
RAS Summer Picnic - Saturday, June 20, 2009.
SEE: RAS ANNUAL PICNIC
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