First Monday Celery Field Walk

Sarasota Audubon Nature Center 999 Center Road, Sarasota, FL

meet at the Nature Center 999 Center Rd.

Guided Walks – Pinecraft Park

Pinecraft Park 1420 Gilbert Ave, Sarasota, FL, United States

Meet John Groskopf at Pinecraft Park for a less than 1 mile shaded walk looking for migrants, flyovers, and water birds. Restrooms are available.

Big Sit

Join SAS members to count birds from a 17' circle. Contact Reenie Ram (email) if you would like to participate and learn the location. Click here for more information.

Guided Walks – Red Bug Slough

Red Bug Slough 5200 Beneva Rd, Sarasota, FL, United States

Meet John Groskopf at Red Bug Slough in Sarasota for a 2 mile walk looking for migrants, forest birds, waders, flyovers, and ducks. The walk is about half shade and half sun.

Guided Walks – Longboat Key Shorebirds

Broadway Beach on Longboat Key 100 Broadway Street, Longboat Key, FL, United States

Stu Wilson (512-897-8341) and Cathy Paris will meet you at the entrance to Broadway Beach, 7001 Seabreeze  Ave. (West end of Broadway St. @ North end of LBK). You will learn to ID gulls, terns, sandpipers, and other shorebirds while walking 1-2 miles in the sun and on sand. There are no restroom facilities.

Monthly Meeting – Anders Gyllenhaal

Zoom - Register to attend the zoom meeting

Rescheduled from October 14, 2024.:  A Wing and a Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds. Journalist Anders Gyllenhaal will talk about the extensive research he and his wife Beverly Gyllenhaal did resulting in their book on the urgency of bird conservation. Anders and Beverly Gyllenhaal are long-time journalists devoting their time to writing...