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Allegheny Front Outings Contingent on the Weather
Saturday, October 10, 2026
The Allegheny Front Hawk Watch outings on October 13 and 17 are contingent on the weather. If the winds are coming from the west or south or if there is pouring rain, the hawks will not be migrating along the Allegheny Front. In those situations, we will cancel the outings. If you plan to attend either of these outings, keep revisiting the Todd Bird Club web site to see if the events have been canceled. The decision could be made as late as the morning of the outing, if the weather forecast is dynamic.

If the Tuesday, October 13, hawk watch outing is canceled, the Todd Bird Club will switch to holding their usual Tuesday outing at Yellow Creek on that morning.

Birds of the Confluence Discovery Park
Sunday, September 27, 2026
Todd Bird Club member, John Taylor, has had an article on the birds at the proposed site of Confluence Discovery Park in the past four annual reports of the Allegheny Arboretum at IUP. John frequently visits a slough there, just north of the Rose Street entrance to the Hoodlebug Trail at the southern edge of IUP's campus. You can read the articles about his observations in the 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, and 2024-25 annual reports at https://www.iup.edu/arboretum/about/annual-reports/index.html. The proposed park design includes three bird blinds, so it will be an exciting destination for birders.

Todd Bird Club Picnic, Saturday, July 25
Tuesday, July 7, 2026
Gather with Todd Bird Club members and their guests for a picnic at Ed Donley's property, 1243 Five Points Road, Indiana, PA 15701. There are three driveways that meet Five Points Road at this location. Ed's is the one paved with asphalt. We will start at 4:00, but feel free to come later, if you cannot make it at 4:00. In case of rain, we will post a cancellation notice on the web site, so if in doubt, check the web site before coming. We will also notify pre-registrants by email in the event of a cancellation. If the picnic is cancelled, we will reschedule it for the following Saturday, August 1, at 4:00 pm.

Please bring $5 per person to pay for sandwich ingredients, drinks, plates, cups, and utensils. We will provide hamburgers and, for vegetarians, portabella mushroom caps for sandwiches. And we will provide hot dogs that you can cook at the fire pit.

Bring a favorite picnic food to share, if you can. The registration form shows what items previous registrants plan to bring. If you have special dietary needs, feel free to bring your own food. Register at https://www.toddbirdclub.org/cgi-bin/picnic.pl so that we know how much food and drinks to buy.

Checking Purple Martin Nest Boxes
Thursday, June 18, 2026
Luke Stauffer, who owns a mini-barn business and lives at 1082 Myers Road, Indiana, PA 15701 near Yellow Creek, has invited Todd Bird Club members to attend his Purple Martin nest box checks, which he tries to do every 5 days at 1:00 pm except for Sunday, weather permitting.

Luke had 49 active nests with 210 eggs on June 18. Some of the eggs should be hatching by the time he conducts his June 23 check. Future checks are scheduled for June 29 and every five days after that for the next few weeks. He will quit checking the nests when the nestlings are older so that they don't fledge too early.

You or anyone else is welcome to join him for the nest checks. You can call him a day ahead of time at 724-479-0760 if you want to be sure that his schedule has not changed. You might have to leave a message for him to call you back. He is excited to share his birds with us.

Birding in Indiana County in 1776 program repeat
Saturday, May 30, 2026
Ed Donley will repeat the program that he gave to the Todd Bird Club for Yellow Creek State Park on Saturday, June 20, 6:30-8:00 pm at the Yellow Creek Environmental Learning Center. "Birding in Indiana County in 1776" takes us on a hypothetical birding trip throughout the county in 1776. We will consider changes in habitats and birds species in the past 250 years.

Jennings Environmental Education Center is giving a similar program, "Our Frontier Landscapes on the Road to Revolution and Beyond” on Saturday, June 13, at 9:00 am, but with less emphasis on birds. See https://events.dcnr.pa.gov/event/our-frontier-landscapes-on-the-road-to-revolution-and-beyond-7942

May 23 Blue Spruce Outing Rescheduled for May 30
Friday, May 22, 2026
The May 23 outing at Blue Spruce Park is rescheduled for May 30, due to the rain.

If you still want to go out in the rain on May 23, Greg Tomb is leading a Friends of the Parks outing at Blacklick Valley Natural Area starting at 8:00 am. See https://www.plantpatrol.org/cgi-bin/friendsoftheparks/programs.pl?ID=15. Greg's outing is not only about birds, but they will certainly be an important part of the program.

Stitt Property Outing Rescheduled
Sunday, April 12, 2026
The outing at Alice and Bob Stitt's property, originally scheduled for Saturday, April 25, is rescheduled for Tuesday morning, April 21, at 8:00 am. For more details, see https://www.toddbirdclub.org/cgi-bin/events.pl?EVENTID=1086. There will be no Todd Bird Club outing at Yellow Creek on that Tuesday morning.

Armstrong Trail Outing on March 14
Monday, March 9, 2026
We have added an outing for Saturday, March 14, at 8:00 am on the Armstrong Trail. See https://www.toddbirdclub.org/cgi-bin/events.pl?EVENTID=1089 for details.

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