Welcome
New Hope Audubon Society (NHAS) is the chapter of the National Audubon Society that serves Orange, Durham, and Chatham counties in central North Carolina.
Our Mission:
The mission of the New Hope Audubon Society is to promote the conservation and enjoyment of birds, other wildlife, and natural ecosystems through public education, field research, advocacy, direct citizen action and contributions to other non-profit organizations with similar goals.
Next Monthly MeetingOur next membership meeting will be held Thursday, May 3, 2012, at 7:00 pm. Our meetings begin with refreshments, some friendly talk and perhaps a bit of chapter news. Our speakers usually begin around 7:30. The meeting will be at the NC Botanical Gardens Visitor Education Center at 100 Old Mason Farm Rd in Chapel Hill. There is no charge for this meeting and everyone, including nonmembers, is welcome.Our speaker will be Johnny Randall of the North Carolina Botanical Garden. The title of his talk is "Rehabilitation and Restoration Work at Mason Farm and Penny’s Bend." |
 White-tailed Tropicbird Gulf Stream, off NC coast |
New Newsletter Available NowOur new bi-monthly newletter is now available online. Click here for the March/April 2012 newsletter.Here's some of what you will find:
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Spring Bird Counts
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Nature Walk at Blackwood Farm
7:30 am, Sunday, April 22, 2012The New Hope Audubon Society is offering a guided walk through Blackwood Farm to discover birds that live and pass through this area during the Spring. While walking through this 150-acre paradise of forest, meadows and restored 19th century farm buildings just south of Hillsborough, we will explore a habitat encompassing a pond and a system of dams being built by beavers to extend the pond into the surrounding forest. Bring a lawn chair and a bagged lunch if you would like to picnic in one of the meadows after the walk. Limited to 15 participants, pre-registration required. Admission is free. To register, send an email message to newhopeaudubon@gmail.com.
Bird Houses for Sale
New Hope Audubon sells bird houses for Bluebirds and Wood Ducks. Free delivery. All profits go toward fulfilling our mission.
Buy one for yourself or give one as a gift. For more information or to make a purchase, please click here.
Great Backyard Bird Count at Parkwood Elementary
For the 4th year, Parkwood Elementary students participated in the Great Backyard Bird Count on their campus in Durham. Some of the students had become familiar with birds by observing visitors to feeders outside two classrooms. They used field guides and the internet to help them learn to identify birds by sight and sound. On the count days, 149 students were helped by teachers, assistants and volunteers. They counted 178 individual birds and identified 31 species. Thanks to the loan of binoculars by New Hope Audubon and NC Botanical Garden, two 4th grade classes were able to use binoculars to observe distant birds. This is becoming a tradition at Parkwood and students are especially enjoying counting the robins on their playing fields and checking for bluebirds on the fences this week.
Archive Articles
As articles outlive their timeliness but retain their interest, we will move them to our Archive page. So if you are looking for a piece you have seen before, it may appear there after it leaves the home page. Articles will be arranged alphbetically by title.
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Last Updated: April 11, 2012