January 2025
GBC MEMBER-LED OUTINGS ︎︎︎ [Usually] Every 1st Sunday at 9:30 AM
Sunday, February 9th ERROL HEIGHTS PARK -MEET NEAR THE PLAYGROUND
some dear devoted long time guero bird-walkers have extended open invitations to their official-non-official-official GBC meetups! an extra stroll to make friends and look at birds!
[EXTRA BINOCULARS NOT GUARANTEED]
MORNING BIRDWATCHING ︎︎︎ STARTS AT 9:30 am
Saturday, Feb 22nd SMITH AND BYBEE WETLANDS NATURAL AREA
if you’ve never "gone birding" before, now is your chance!!!
if you have watched a bird before, come and do it again!!!
we will all wake up not too early, but a little bit early, to look around for winged critters. we might
name them, we might laugh at their antics, we might go awwwwwww. we won't walk too far or
too fast. this is a family-friendly, beginner-friendly, bedhead-friendly kinda thing.
we can bring some coffee to put that extra pep in your step and we always have binoculars to
share...
STEWARDSHIP OUTINGS
ever feel like the birds are always giving you something? maybe joy, renewed vigor, relaxation, a new friend? well, here are some days dedicated to giving back to the birds! clean grass, happy plants, sometimes even birdhouses. joining various conservation non-profits at some of our favorite birdwatching venues, guero bird club is gonna get our hands dirty!
GUERO BIRD-STANDING AROUND︎︎︎
we fall into winter, winter is followed by white geese snowing down from greying skies
didn’t think guero bird outings could get any more low-key? sit on down and let me tell you otherwise! meet us at the SAUVIE ISLAND VIEWING PLATFORM to see some geese, eat some snacks, and talk seasonal migration. then we will take a short drive down to raccoon point to point our spotting scope at some sandhill cranes!
EVENING BIRD STROLL
︎︎︎ START AT 6:45PM
not a “morning person”? try birding at the opposite end of the day!
when the swallows stoop and spiral and sup
a great mess of crows poppy the sky towards a communal roost
juncos trill out a prayer from little cedar pulpits
and sometimes sometimes an owl begins her silent work