Welcome to Pickering Creek
A Sanctuary of Chesapeake Audubon Society
 
   

Thanks for a Great Year!
Your interest and enthusiasm for the great outdoors and what we offer to the community here at Pickering Creek Audubon Center is always a fantastic source of strength and energy for our tireless educators and volunteers. After 141 programs for school children, 3 volunteer events, Harvest Hoedown, and about 10 family and outreach programs in just the last 4 months, we are taking a little breather over January.

The trails are still open daily from dawn to dusk, free of charge- as always, and we welcome you to explore the quiet season of Pickering Creek. Listen to the leaves beneath your feet, the Geese in the fields and on the creek, the eagles overhead, and ducks in the wetlands. They will undoubtedly nourish your soul, as they have for thousands of others this year.

Thank you for your committment to nature and our work to connect people of all ages with it!  We have accomplished a great deal together and look forward to another great year!!

Happy Birding,
Mark Scallion
Center Director

Wingwatchers Needed!

Like watching birds from the warmth of the indoors?
We've got a job for you! As part of our participation in Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology's Project Feederwatch, we need folks to watch our feeders through the winter and count and identify the birds who visit. Come when you can and stay for as long as you'd like. For more information, contact Samantha at 410-822-4903.


Upcoming Winter 2012 Programs

Bird Walk and Talk Series- Woodpeckers- January 22
Owls of Maryland-
February 7
Great Backyard Bird Count-
February 18
Bird Walk and Talk Series- Diving Birds-
February 25



Winter Haiku

Thoreau said it best:
'To see wildlife you must go
at a wild season.'

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The horned grebe swims
with a flock of ring-billed gulls
he must be lonely.

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Ten inches of snow
bring deer to the bird feeders...
I count twelve squirrels.

~Gilbert Byron

The sight of the Marsh Hawk


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11450 Audubon Lane
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Created by Susanna Scallion Last Updated 07/11
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