Bird Photography Class Resources Links

Event / Frequency	Organization Name Website Link	Additional Details
Regularly Scheduled Bird Walks in the Eugene/Springfield area
Wetland Wanders; Second Tuesday of every month	WREN "Wetland Wanders" events listed here - scroll down to find them WREN Wanders are casual walks through various West Eugene Wetlands sites each second Tuesday of every month. Usually a birding expert, a biologist, and a botanist accompany the group so these walks have an overall nature emphasis. These exciting opportunities are FREE to the public and provide observation, education and inspiration in our surrounding natural spaces. WREN staff and volunteers guide these walks.	WREN is Willamette Education and Resource Network WREN Blog Site For more information call 541.338.7047 or email info@wewetlands.org
Birding Walks: 3rd Saturday of each month	Lane County Audubon Society	LCAS hosts bird walks on the 3rd Saturday of each month. Scroll down on the main site page to find the next bird-walk listing
Bird Walks; 2nd, 4th and 5th Thursdays	BOGS (Birds of Oregon and General Science) BOGS Spring 2015 Calendar	Updates Page: Next walk/presentation and latest albums/reports
Bird Walks - Seasonal See online Calendar	Spring Bird Walk at Mt Pisgah Arboretum. Sun, May 10, 8:00am – 10:30am CALENDAR OF EVENTS for Mt Pisgah Arboretum Join Nature Guides Chris Roth and Julia Siporin for another monthly bird walk intended for people with all levels of birding experience. Meet at the Arboretum Visitor Center; rain or shine! We’ll use vocalizations, habitat, and behavior clues for identification of our spring and year-round residents. Come discover the Arboretum’s avian diversity. Please bring binoculars. $5 non-members, Members FREE. Option to continue the walk until noon for those who are interested. Mt. Pisgah Arboretum on Facebook
Sources of information about birds being seen locally or regionally
Online Postings every day	OBOL Postings (hosted by Oregon Birding Association)	Oregon Birders On-Line = OBOL This is a listserve used by many Western Oregon birders to report their bird sightings. Some of these posts are about rare birds, but many are simply reports of interesting sightings.
Online database of bird sightings (eBird) Hosted by Cornell University	Cornell's "eBird" Lane County recent bird sightings - listed chronologically	eBird Lane County Birding HOTSPOTS
Oregon Birding Info Online Birding Guide by County	A state-wide compilation by local experts Click here for Information specific to LANE county birding	Introductory (home) page
Willamette Valley Birding Trail Guide	Another great compilation by experts, of birding locations and the birds to be found there. Click on one of the Trail LOOPS for a detailed description of what birds you may find at various places along the way.	Introductory (home) page

Next BOGS Event:
BOGS updates page

Instructions for the following eBIRD widget can be found further down this page

INSTRUCTIONS: Notice there is a navigation bar with headings at the top of the eBird Widget box; "sightings" and "rarities"

SIGHTINGS:

If you click on the + sign at the far right you will get a little box showing the name of the person who saw and reported the bird in that row, and the date. (scroll down to see the earlier sightings)
If you click on the name of a bird in the "sightings" column, you will get a list of all the sightings and locations of that bird in the last seven days.

If you click on any of those locations you will get a check-list of all the birds seen at the same location and date as the bird you originally clicked on.

If you click on any of the locations shown in the "sightings" view, you will get bird lists for that location over the last seven days.
Remember to scroll back to the top so you can see the navigation bar again.

Generally if you want to know what is happening next at BOGS, or want to see the latest photos/reports,
you can find these on my "updates" page:
http://priscillanhk.com/updates.html
Enjoy!
Priscilla