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Short-eared Owl. Video: Steven Chu/Audubon Photography Awards

Bird Art Competition for Kids

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Bird Art Competition for Kids!

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Kids, this one's for you!

 

Choose an interesting bird. Learn about it. Recreate it as art. Take it to your library. Enjoy seeing it displayed! 

 

The deadline to register and take your art to the library is March 21.  

 

Click here for registration, rules, and participating libraries. 

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For ages Pre-K-12th grade. In cooperation with local public libraries in Clarion County, Forest County, and in Brookville.   

 Spring Bird Walks 

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Common Yellowthroat. Photo: Mike Warner/

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!

March 28, 8 am - Waterfowl Migration Field Trip, Conneaut Marsh to Pymatuning

May 2 - Big Sit at Maple Glen Farm, Sligo. Come and go as you please, morning through early afternoon.

May 9 -16 - Birdathon, our annual fundraiser

May 16, 8 am - Warbler Walk at Oil Creek State Park

May 23, 9 am - Piney Tract Tour (State Game Land #330)

May 30 - Bird and Brew, Cook Forest State Park

June 6, 9 am - Cook Forest Outing, Cook Forest State Park 

June 20 - Brockway Bird Walk (more info to come)

Nature Programs

Photo courtesy of Melissa Goodwill, Tamarack Wildlife Center. 

     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.

     The 2026 spring programs will start at 6:00 pm.

Come early to get a seat and hang out!

     

March 11 - Leave No Trace for Birding with Peggy Butler, founder of the PA Firefly Festival

April 8 - Nocturnal Flight Calls with Dr. Joe Gyekis, lifelong birder and health science instructor, Penn State University​

May 13 - Alaska Birding with Tom Kuehl, Southwestern Regional Coordinator for the PA Bird Atlas 3

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 

 See the Christmas Bird Count results here: 

         2025 39th Clarion CBC

        2025 CBC Summary by Carole Winslow

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.)

Go Birding!

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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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Clarion County

Forest County

Jefferson County

Venango County

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/
 

Bird Sightings Requested

Carole Winslow is the Clarion Co. compiler for the PA Society for Ornithology.  

Email or call Carole with sightings or questions.

​    David Keith is the Jefferson Co. compiler for the PSO. Email David with Jefferson County sightings or questions. 

Education

We educate the public in a variety of ways.

One Scholarship for

Sharing Nature: Educator's Week

at Hog Island, Maine

Bird Art Competition for Kids

In cooperation with your local public library in Clarion and Forest Counties and Brookville. 

Tabling at local events

Presentations to community groups

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Shop

Beak Bone & Feather

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. 

Seneca Rocks Audubon Society

PO Box 148

Clarion, PA 16214

senecarocksaudubon@gmail.com

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Unless otherwise noted, all photos on this website were taken locally by chapter members.

© 2026 by Seneca Rocks Audubon Society

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