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Botany & Brews: A Native Plant Walk with a Beer Chaser
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Have you been interested in learning more about Pennsylvania’s native plants and how to ID them?  Then join us for this guided walk that will help you identify and learn about our beneficial native plants along with the invasive species that are too often encroaching on our landscape.  Coventry Woods maintains one of t , ...
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“Golden Hour” Photography at the Great Marsh
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Please note: REGISTRATION IS REQUESTED – see details below. Grab your camera and join hobbyist photographer Hilary Vadner and Valley Forge Audubon Society vice‑president Patty Werth for a relaxed, golden‑hour photography stroll through the scenic paths of the Great Marsh Institute. Evenings here can be spectacular, whe , ...
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Summer Birds and Waterfowl at Lower Perkiomen Valley Park (Rescheduled)
7:30 am
Rescheduled from June 27 Lower Perkiomen Valley Park offers the opportunity to bird along wooded edges and along the Perkiomen Creek. We will be walking in the grass and on wood chip-covered trails along the river to avoid the bikers and runners on the paved trail. The grass may be wet so wear waterproof shoes or boots , ...
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Nature Hike at Ridley Creek State Park
9:00 am - 11:00 am
How to find us: Enter the park from Gradyville Road. Once in the park, follow the signs to the park office, which is Hunting Hill Mansion, and meet in the upper parking lot. If using GPS, enter these coordinates to take you directly to the meeting location: +39.95076, -75.45191 Join Ridley Creek State Park’s na , ...
Valley Forge Audubon Society Annual Social (Registration required)
2:00 pm
Please join us for a fun and informative afternoon on Sunday, August 9th from 2:00-6:00 pm at the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove.  Explore everything Valley Forge Audubon Society has to offer in a relaxed and friendly setting.  There will be plenty of time for mingling and the opportunity to learn more about V , ...
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Beginners Birding Tour at Mill Grove
8:00 am - 10:00 am
New to bird-watching? This outing is just for you! Join volunteers from the Valley Forge Audubon Society on the third Saturday of every month for a free birding tour created especially for beginners. If you’re new to birding or have been thinking about giving it a try, this is the perfect place to start. Our leaders , ...
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An Evening in Nature at Welkinweir
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Evenings are always a magical time to be out in nature and nowhere is a late summer evening more lovely than at Welkinweir, a private nature preserve whose name means “where sky meets water”. Normally closed to the public in the evenings but open tonight only to us, we will enjoy the tranquility of this ma , ...
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A Day Trip to Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge
9:30 am
Bombay Hook NWR is a special place during fall migration. Shorebirds, wading birds, and waterfowl are stopping here to rest and feed, and will be our birding targets for this trip. However many other migrants and year-round resident birds will be present as well. On last year’s trip to Bombay Hook, 80 differen , ...
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Full Moon Nighthawk Watch
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Join us for this special first-time event: a peaceful evening of sky-watching and summertime magic over the conserved fields of Lundale Farm. During this relaxing program we’ll stay in one place to watch the sun slip behind the hills to the west just as the full Sturgeon moon rises over the treetops to the east, all , ...
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Birding at Wentz Run Park
8:00 am
Wentz Run Park in Blue Bell has some naturalized areas as well as a nature trail that goes through woods and meadows. We’ll be looking for resident summer birds and early fall migrants. The first part of our walk will be on paved trails along edge habitat. We will then head into the woods and meadows where we wil , ...
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Butterflies! – Wings of Color at Waterloo Mills
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Join Valley Forge Audubon Society for a guided butterfly walk at the Brandywine Conservancy’s Waterloo Mills Preserve, where the meadows come alive with the color and movement of these beautiful and delicate winged creatures. We’re excited to be hosted by the preserve’s natural resource manager, Kevin Fryb , ...
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Bird Banding at Rushton Woods
7:45 am
Join us for a fascinating visit to Willistown Conservation Trust’s bird banding station at Rushton Woods Preserve, where you can watch bird banding research as it happens. Through the tracking of individual birds, documentation is gathered on the seasonal and long-term population patterns of migratory and residen , ...
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