Forbush Bird Club - What We Do

FORBUSH BIRD CLUB                  Worcester, Massachusetts

Our club has meetings and field trips. See the Coming Events page for this year's schedule.

• We have evening meetings during October, November, February, and March at Mass Audubon’s Broad Meadow Brook Conservation Center in Worcester, with a social period and presentations on topics of interest to birders and naturalists.

• We have an Annual Business Meeting / Banquet with a special program in April.

• We have a wide variety of field trips throughout the year to the top birding locations in Worcester County and beyond. Many trip leaders have decades of birding experience. Birders of all levels are welcome!

• We publish The Chickadee reporting on our activities and bird sightings. (Look under "Reports & Sightings | The Chickadee" for more information.)

OUR EVENING MEETINGS

Meetings are held in October, November, February, and March, on the third Thursday of the month.
Socialize with friends and enjoy light refreshments at 6:30 p.m. before the meetings, which begin at 7:00 p.m.  
All Evening Meetings are held at Mass Audubon Broad Meadow Brook Conservation Center, 414 Massasoit Road, Worcester, MA.

FIELD TRIPS

Below is the list of our annual trip destinations. In each year there may be additions or omissions. See the Coming Events calendar for this year's trip details and leaders’ contact information.

1. New Year’s Day trip in Worcester and vicinity

2. Cape Ann/Gloucester and Rockport (winter)

3. Two trips to Lake Quaboag and the Brookfields (early spring and fall)

4. Two trips to Bolton Flats/Pine Hill Wildlife Management Area (early spring and mid-spring)

5. Lake Chauncy and Westborough Wildlife Management Area (spring and fall)

6. Evening walk for American Woodcock at Westborough WMA (spring)

7. Earth Day at Shrewsbury Parks (spring)

8. Delaney WMA in Stow/Harvard (spring and fall)

9. High Ridge Wildlife Management Area in Gardner (spring)

10. Weekday morning birding at Lake Chauncy and Westborough WMA (three walks in spring; two in fall)

11. Greenbrier Conservation Area and Hodges Village Dam, Oxford/Dudley (spring)

12. Weekday morning birding at Mass Audubon Broad Meadow Brook Wildlife Sanctuary (two walks in spring)

13. Three walks at Worcester’s historic cemeteries and parks (spring and fall)

14. Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge (spring)

15. Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge (spring)

16. Kristoff Farm in Sterling (spring)

17. Upton State Forest (spring)

18. Two walks at Rauscher Farm Conservation Area in Clinton (spring and fall)

19. Barre Falls Dam and Rutland State Park (spring)

20. Wachusett Reservoir Important Bird Area  (summer and fall)

21. Birds & Butterflies with the Massachusetts Butterfly Club in Leicester (summer)

22. Mass Audubon Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary (late summer)

23. Winimusset Wildlife Management Area in New Braintree (fall)

24. Sholan Farms in Leominster (fall)

25. Northborough/Westborough Ponds and Fields (fall)

26. Quabbin Park in Ware (late fall)

27. Christmas Bird Counts in Worcester County (December)