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Bolin Creek Unpaved: Saving Carrboro’s Last Forest

by admin | Dec 26, 2016 | Birding, Bolin Creek, Bolin Creek Watershed, Conservation, Jordan Lake

Click here to buy tickets Email: FriendsBolinCreek@gmail.com  for more information.

The Amazing Ecology of Bolin Creek

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.

No Buffers, No Birds

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...

A Carolina Walk in the Woods

by admin | Feb 20, 2016 | Birding, Bolin Creek Wildlife

A Carolina Walk in the Woods

Birders rewarded

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.  ...

Birds of Bolin Forest Shared by Mary Sonis

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...
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