by admin | Oct 20, 2016 | Birding, Bolin Creek, Bolin Creek Watershed, Bolin Forest, Riparian buffers
Meeting place is at 210 Cobblestone, Chapel Hill 27516, located in a residential neighborhood back of Bolin Forest. Enter the neighborhood off of Hillsborough Road. Here is the link to Google Maps.
by admin | Sep 13, 2016 | Birding, Bolin Creek, Bolin Forest, Conservation, Riparian buffers
This article by naturalist Mary Sonis originally appeared in the Chapel Hill News on November 23, 2015. With a growing appreciation of our birds and the disappearance of wild places, it’s worth rereading. Bolin Creek saw a great turnout of migrating warblers...
by admin | Feb 20, 2016 | Birding, Bolin Creek Wildlife
A Carolina Walk in the Woods
by admin | Mar 26, 2013 | Birding, Birding in Boilin Forest, Bolin Creek Wildlife, Bolin Forest, Friends of Bolin Creek
Birders from Friends of Bolin Creek and New Hope Audubon were rewarded on our March 3 bird walk with several sightings of the pileated woodpecker — on the ground pecking ants in old logs. Mary Sonis took this photo of the pileated on a tree in 2012. ...
by admin | Dec 25, 2012 | Birding, Birding in Boilin Forest
It was a windy overcast day. It was not a good birding day. The sun wouldn’t shine on the trees, but the birds didn’t care if it wasn’t the day for pictures. They were feeling the change in the air…and they were hungry. Mason Farm was besieged...
by admin | Nov 29, 2012 | Birding, Birding in Mason Farm
Cynthia Fox of the Wild Bird Store led a bird walk in Mason Farm November 10th. Our wonderful photographer, Mary Sonis, missed our Saturday walk but she provided these bird photos she smapped on Mason Farm the day before.