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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.

Birding in Indiana County in 1776 Slides
Friday, March 6, 2026
Ed Donley is making available the slides from his March 2026 Todd Bird Club presentation. If you missed it, you can view the slides for "Birding in Indiana County in 1776" at https://www.toddbirdclub.org/birding-in-1776.pdf, where Ed plans a hypothetical 1776 birding excursion in what is now Indiana County.

Migrating Birds, Invasive Plants, and Climate Change
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Indiana County Conservation District's Lee Dunlap interviewed Todd Bird Club member, Ed Donley, about the effects of invasive plants and climate change on migrating birds. You can listen to the interview by going to page 3 of the conservation district's March 2026 newsletter. Find the newsletter at the bottom of the conservation district's News and Events page, https://www.iccdpa.org/news-and-events.

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