male Baltimore Oriole

On 19 May 2012, beginning at 8 am, Ruth Beasley will host an outing at her home in Tecumseh. Call Ruth at 405-598-1055 for directions.

On 28 April 2012 we visited Wes Watkins Reservoir. Here is an account of the trip.

On 10 April 2012 at 6:30 PM we met at Sips Coffeehouse on Main St. in Shawnee. Here is the agenda and here are the minutes.

On 31 March 2012 from 2-4 PM at the Shawnee Public Library (Community Room A) we discussed strategies for creating urban bird habitat.

On 3 March we visited Shawnee Twin Lakes in the morning to look for waterfowl. We didn't see a lot of waterfowl, but we found a kingfisher nest. In the afternoon we met at the Shawnee Public Library to plan the program on urban bird habitat scheduled for the 31st.

We found one American Woodcock on our timberdoodling excursion at Sacred Heart on 18 February.

The Pontotoc Ridge Winter Bird Count was held on 28 January 2012.

On 1 October Jona Tucker led a tour of the Pontotoc Ridge Preserve for the Deep Fork Audubon Society. Pontotoc Ridge is south of Ada and east of Sulphur. After lunch we had a brief business meeting "in the field". We developed three main goals for this fiscal year.

Ruth Beasley has a radio show called Learning the Birds.
Here is Ruth's Christmas episode: Four Christmas Birds (mp3)