Glen Echo Bird Club

07/09/2025

Come and explore the hidden world of dragonflies with Deb Marsh at our Dragonfly Walk this Saturday! The weather will be perfect at the Grange Insurance Audubon Center as we discover how these beautiful creatures tick! If you have never been to the GIAC, now is your chance and this event is free and open to all ages! Details below.

Oodles of Odes

When: Saturday, July 12, 10:30 am—Noon

Where: Scioto Audubon Metro Park, meet at the entrance to the Grange Insurance Audubon Center

Description: Join Deb Marsh to discover the world of Odonata, better known as dragonflies and damselflies. We will explore various ponds on the Metro Park property. Find out about the oddly fascinating life cycle of these insects, learn to identify a few of the common ones, and hear about the exciting citizen science effort here in Ohio that is documenting Odonata observations throughout the state. Bring water, a hat, and binoculars if you have them.

Deb is a longtime birder, butterflyer, and dragonfly enthusiast—she is interested in just about anything that happens to be along the trail. One of her favorite things is to introduce others to the fascinating world of natural history.

Contact: 614-371-5904; Debra.h.marsh@gmail.com

05/16/2025

Apologies for the late notice, but we will have a bird walk tomorrow, Saturday 5/17. We’ll meet in our usual spot at the 4th Street entrance to the park at 8:30. We had good movement this week. Let’s go see what we can find!

04/24/2025

Hi GEBC peeps! We will have bird walks on Saturday and Sunday this weekend. We’ll meet as usual at 8:30 at the entrance to the park where 4th Street dead ends into Cliffside Drive. We bird rain or shine as long as there’s no electrical storm. As always, we hope to see you there!

04/21/2025

Let’s get out there!

See real-time analysis maps of intensities of actual nocturnal bird migration, as detected by the US weather surveillance radar network between local sunset to sunrise. Cornell Lab of Ornithology currently produces these maps.

04/19/2025

Here is our checklist from this morning in Glen Echo Park:

04/18/2025

A brief reminder that we will have a bird walk tomorrow in Glen Echo Park. We meet at the 4th Street entrance to the park at 8:30 am hope to see you there!

04/14/2025

Here is our checklist from last Saturday’s walk in Glen Echo Park.

04/11/2025

Here we go!

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04/09/2025

Hello All!
We will resume our walks in Glen Echo Park this Saturday, April 12, at 8:30. We would have started last Saturday, but the weather has been uncooperative. The weather looks good for the 12th. We meet, as always, at the 4th Street entrance to the park to have the sun at our back. We will send out weekly reminders for the future walks.

Hope to see you there!

For more information, contact John Finn: finnj956@gmail.com

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03/08/2025

We will be resuming our spring migrant walks soon. So exciting! Stay tuned!

02/13/2025

Hi! Check out the February issue of Song Sparrow, the Columbus Audubon newsletter, edited by our own John Finn. Among the articles is a report about the Lazuli Bunting that has made Ohio its winter home.

Birds make sounds to communicate, whether to find a potential mate, ward off predators, or just sing for pleasure. But the conditions that contribute to the immense diversity of the sounds they make are not well understood. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison .... read the rest.....

10/17/2024

Hello all!
Still healing my eye. We hope to do some winter birding. So stay tuned!