SENECA ROCKS AUDUBON SOCIETY
Short-eared Owl. Video: Steven Chu/Audubon Photography Awards
Winter Events
Eastern Bluebird. Photo: Carole Carnovale/ Audubon Photography Awards.
Join us for these upcoming events. It doesn't matter if you're a beginner, advanced, new, or a regular. We'd love to see you!
Christmas Bird Count, all day, Dec. 20. Join other bird lovers for our chapter's 39th consecutive CBC! You can join our leaders for any amount of time by car or by foot. Or, stay home and count birds at your feeder for as long as you like. You don't need to be an expert birder! Find out how you can join the fun and excitement HERE.
Winter Sowing Classes, Jan. 10, Main Street Center, 516 Main Street, Clarion.
What a great way to spend a cold January morning by planting seeds indoors! Plant seeds for 5 varieties of native perennial flowers in jugs and take them home to grow.
Instruction, supplies, seeds, handouts are all provided. Class size is limited.
Reserve your seat for either 9:30-10:30 or 11:30-12:30 by emailing senecarocksaudubon@gmail.com. Cost is $5 at the door. Questions? Email us!
Great Backyard Bird Count, Feb. 13-16, 2026
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Nature Programs
Our monthly nature programs are always interesting.
We meet at the Clarion Free Library, 644 Main St., Clarion, on the second Wednesday of the month. Programs start at 6:30 pm.
Come early to get a seat and hang out!
Sept. 10 - Wildlife Rehabilitation: It Takes a Caring Village
with Melissa Goodwill, Outreach and Education Manager,
Tamarack Wildlife Center
October 8 - Beginners Guide to Mushroom Foraging with Esperanzo (Espo) Wilcox of the PA Mushroom Company. This program will be held at Penn West - Clarion, Auditorium 122C, Science and Technology Center
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November 12 - My Experience at Hog Island, Maine
with Hog Island SRAS scholarship recipient Brianna Lauer
December 10 - Members' Night
Bring your stories, photos, sightings, etc. for show and tell! Or just come to listen and to enjoy being with other nature lovers. The Cookies and cider will be served!
Community Science
We're involved in several community science projects. Anyone is welcome to join us. We'd love to have your company!
Email us if you're interested at senecarocksaudubon@gmail.com
Christmas Bird Count on Dec. 20, 2025
PA Bird Atlas, a 5-year project that started in 2024
Common Nighthawk Watch at Mill Creek Boat Launch and
the Oil City Marina (mid-August - early Sept.)
Conservation
Eastern Bluebird. Photo: Andrew Sentipa/Audubon Photography Awards
Our chapter is working to restore and preserve precious bird habitat and to educate the public about ways they can help.
Please join us in our efforts. We each can help.
Bird-Friendly Habitat - Our team actively promotes native plants for private and public spaces in our area. Our next event is our Winter Sowing Class for the public on January 10. Join the fun and grow native flowers inexpensively. More information under Winter Events section.
Piney Tract (SGL 330) - A former strip mine, it is now an Important Birding Area and a breeding home to many grassland birds.
Go Birding!
Canada Warbler by Meg Kolodick.
The following links will take you to the eBird website for County Hotspots and recent sightings:
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This winter, watch for Evening Grosbeaks, Purple Finches, Pine Siskins, Redpolls, and Red-breasted Nuthatches from the north. Read more about the Winter Finch Forecast.
Two great articles by Carole Winslow:
Winter Birding in Clarion County
and
Birding in Clarion County: Rivers, Fields and Forests
Read here:
https://discoverclarioncounty.com/birding-in-clarion-county-rivers-fields-and-forests/
Education
We educate the public in a variety of ways.
Tabling at local events
Presentations to community groups
Shop
Anthology of poems about birds
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$10.00 through SRAS. Also available at Sparrow Books, Fulmer House Books, and Amazon. Available at programs or use this order form and we'll mail you a copy.
Long-sleeved t-shirts with chapter logo.
Royal blue or kelly green.
$15. Available at programs
or email us at senecarocksaudubon@gmail.com
Birds of Venango County: The status, distribution, and history of the birds of Pennsylvania’s Oil Region, written by Gary Edwards with Jeffrey Hall.
The book is $20 plus $3.50 postage. Address is:
Gary Edwards
224 Meadow Rd. Apt.9
Seneca, PA 16346
Email Gary here for info.