Category Archives: Field Trips

Save the Date 2025

Save the Date: Read below or see Hilary Shughart for questions
Save the Little Logan River
Be a Dipper! Support the Bridgerland Audubon Society Allen & Alice Stokes Nature Stewardship Scholarship Endowment Fund at USU
Utah Audubon Council Legislative Tracker
May 3 – Bullrush Boogaloo: Planting the Amalga Barrens Sanctuary
May 6 – Arbor & Bird Day, Logan City Council Opening Ceremony, 5:30 pm
May 10 – World Migratory Bird Day at the Cache Valley Gardeners Market
May 17 – Bird Superpowers, Eric Bingham, Smithfield Library, 8 am
May 17 – Third Dam/Spring Hollow, 8 am-Birding with Bridgerland Audubon
May 17 – Logan Canyon Weed Day, 8 am
May 17 Inhabit, a Permaculture Documentary Film, 3:30-5 p.m., Logan Library
May 15–18, Great Salt Lake Bird Festival
May 24 BioBlitz Rendezvous Park
June 14 Merlin Olsen Central Park Wildlife Mural Celebration 10-Noon (Details to be posted)
Jun 18 – 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Denzil Stewart Nature Park Deed
Jun 18 Meet the Author: Abundance, A birding memoir, by Scott Erickson, 5:30-7:30 Logan Library (Details to be posted)
Jun 21 – 7 am, Bud Phelps Wildlife Management Area-Birding with Bridgerland Audubon
Jun 26 Logan Permaculture Garden Tour (Details to be posted)
Jul 19 – 7 am, Tony Grove-Birding with Bridgerland Audubon
July 27, Tony Grove & Mount Naomi Wilderness inducted into the Old-Growth Forest Network, 12:00 pm
Aug 2 Butterflies & Wildflowers at Tony Grove with Jack Greene (Details to be posted)
Aug 16 Mindful Birding Through A Camera Lens, Meg Kast, Stokes Nature Center 10 a.m. (Details to be posted)
Aug 23 – 7 am, Amalga Barrens-Birding with Bridgerland Audubon
Sep 15-Oct 15 Online Wild Bird Seed Orders for pick-up 11/1 (Details to be posted)
Sep 27 – Benson Marina and Railroad Trail-Birding with Bridgerland Audubon
Sep 29-Oct 24 Wild Bird Seed Pre-Orders
Sep 29-Oct 27 Awards Dinner Ticket Sales
Oct 4 – Stewart Park Retention Basin Tree Planting (Details to be posted)
Oct 11 – 10/11 World Migratory Bird Day – Cache Valley Gardeners’ Market … Bird Walk (Details to be posted)
Oct 25 – King Nature Park and Green Canyon-Birding with Bridgerland Audubon
Oct 29 – Pre-Christmas Bird Count Program/Bird Superpowers, Eric Bingham, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Logan Library (Details to be posted)

Nov 1 – Wild Bird Seed Pick-Up at Anderson’s Seed & Garden 10-Noon
Nov 12 – Bridgerland Audubon Awards Dinner, Riverwoods Conference Center, Willow Room
Nov 22 – Hyrum Reservoir and State Park-Birding with Bridgerland Audubon
Dec 6 – Lundstrom Park Trail-Birding with Bridgerland Audubon
Dec 20 – Logan Christmas Bird Count 2025, Count from home or join sector count teams.
Dec 20 – Christmas Bird County Tally Dinner Meeting
 
Save the Date Questions: Hilary Shughart, 435-213-3668, hilary.shughart@gmail.com
 
Use the events above to get involved with birding in Cache Valley or where ever you may travel. Review eBird to find what birds you should expect to see for where you are traveling and pay it back by reporting what you see to eBird. Check out our Birding Tools for Places to Bird in the Cache County, Utah Area, Bird ID & Location Resources, Checklists, Teaching Resources, and Bird Health Guidance.


Save the Date

July 27, Birds, Butterflies & Blooms at Tony Grove

Tony Grove Reservoir
Courtesy & © Mike Fish, Photographer
Tony Grove Reservoir, Courtesy & © Mike Fish, Photographer
Explore Tony Grove and its abundance of birds, butterflies and wildflowers with Jack Greene

Stokes Nature Center and Bridgerland Audubon are sponsoring a fieldtrip to Tony Grove from 8:30-early afternoon Saturday, July 27th.

“Beautiful flowers with wings”, a phrase frequently used to express the exquisite beauty of butterflies. Join the Bridgerland Audubon Society for a fieldtrip to learn the secret lives of these amazing sparks of life, the flowers they visit, and birds that eat them! Place: Tony Grove meadows. Meet at the US Forest Service parking lot 1500 East Hwy 89 at 8:30 am on July 27th for carpooling. Return early afternoon. Bring lunch, water, light jacket, hat or sun screen, binoculars, camera, butterfly net (we will have some).

Signed waivers required for all participants. Complete form, print results and bring printed waiver to meeting point.

Trip leader: local naturalist Jack Greene jackisgreene@yahoo.com or764-4815. Bring binoculars and a lunch. Return by mid afternoon.

eBird Printable Checklist for Tony Grove
Tony Grove, Recent Sightings, eBird.org
Utah Birds for Tony Grove
Checklist of Tony Grove Plants per Dr. Leila Shultz
USDA Forest Service Tony Grove Lake, Bear River Range

USU Herbarium Plant Checklists: (Courtesy USU Herbarium: https://herbarium.usu.edu/)
Tony Grove Area Checklist

Participants agree to the terms of the Bridgerland Audubon Society Sign-up Sheet and Liability Waiver

Tony Grove Butterflies: A Tony Grove Meadow Courtesy USDA Forest Service Teresa Prendusi, Photographer
A Tony Grove Meadow, Courtesy USDA Forest Service Teresa Prendusi, Photographer

Bridgerland Audubon Society: BridgerlandAudubon.org
Stokes Nature Center: LoganNature.org

Dec 18, Webinar: Audubon’s Role in Protecting Saline Lakes of the Intermountain West

Wilson's Phalarope on Rockin’ 7 Ranch, an Audubon-certified conservation ranch in Converse County, Wyoming, on June 4, 2019. Photo Courtesy & Copyright Audubon Rockies, Evan Barrientos, Photographer
Wilson’s Phalarope on Rockin’ 7 Ranch, an Audubon-certified conservation ranch in Converse County, Wyoming, on June 4, 2019.
Photo Courtesy & Copyright Audubon Rockies, Evan Barrientos, Photographer

Webinar: Audubon’s Role in Protecting Saline Lakes of the Intermountain West
Join staff from National Audubon Society’s Saline Lakes Program and Audubon California on Monday, December 18 at 3 p.m. PT / 4 p.m. MT / 6 p.m. ET for an update on our conservation efforts across the West.

Despite record breaking snowpack this past winter across the west, saline lake ecosystems are facing continued long-term water declines—threatening habitat, birds, and surrounding communities. Learn more about Audubon’s incredible network of chapters and advocates that made significant progress in protecting this irreplaceable network of habitats through science and policy efforts.
Register Now
This webinar will be led by the following Audubon experts:
Max Malmquist, Engagement Manager, National Audubon Society’s Saline Lakes Program
Andrea Jones, Director of Conservation, Audubon California
Marcelle Shoop, Director, National Audubon Society’s Saline Lakes Program

Here are optional articles you can read for more context:
Partners Across Great Basin Essential to Passage of Saline Lake Ecosystems Legislation
Regional Shorebird Surveys Provide a Look at Changing Habitat Around the West
Birds of Great Salt Lake’s South Arm Ecosystem Threatened
Wetlands are appearing around the Salton Sea. Could this be a natural solution?
PRESS RELEASE: Trust Awards Funding to Protect and Restore More Than 13,000 Acres of Essential Great Salt Lake Wetlands

We hope to see you here!
Wilson’s Phalarope. Photo: Evan Barrientos/Audubon Rockies

https://audubon.stagecoachdigital.com/web-view/1663673

Count-Week After-School Bird Species Scouting the Logan City Sewage Lagoons

Sewage Ponds
Logan City, Utah 
Courtesy Google Maps
Retrieved Nov 27, 2023

Sewage Ponds
Logan City, Utah
Courtesy Google Maps
Retrieved Nov 27, 2023

Join birders with spotting scopes to search for any species missed on Count Day.
Monday, December 18, 2023, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Meet at:
2445 W 200 N
Logan, UT 84321
Weather permitting: the event will be cancelled for inclement weather including wind and precipitation.

Examples of why we bird at the Logan Sewage Ponds:
Ron Ryel’s Mew Gull Record at the Logan City Sewage Ponds, Oct 8, 1991
Utah Records Committee Mentions for the above and other Logan City Sewage Pond Observations (not the only entries)