March 2025 Newsletter

March Highlights:

• Field Notes: GBBC Update & Getting Ready for Woodcocks

• Bird of the Month: American Robin

Volunteer Opportunities

• Seeking our next CCAS Secretary!

• Staff the CCAS table at Urbana’s Market at the Square

• Volunteers Needed to Review Grant Applications:

  • In March the Champaign County Audubon Society will award at least three grants to young researchers investigating Illinois birds, their environments, and their habitats. If you would like to join the Kendeigh grant committee to determine which students will receive those awards, please contact committee chair Roger Digges at rogerdigges49@gmail.com and let him know of your interest and what you can bring to the process. The committee will meet remotely once sometime in mid-March.

Events

• Sunday Morning Bird Walks return March 2

• March Program: Pesticide Exposure and Plant Damage in Natural Areas in Illinois –– Implications for Birds, March 6

• Woodcock Walk at Buffalo Trace, Lake of the Woods, March 12

• Woodcock Walks at Meadowbrook Park, March 14 and March 17

• Garden Speaker Series: The Birth and Demise of Illinois’ Grand Prairie, March 16

• Walk with a Naturalist 2025 (Evening Stroll), March 27