Volunteer with Madrone
W. 9th St. Heronry
The Madrone team monitoring the heronry on West 9th Street in Santa Rosa needs help setting up lane barriers around the colony on a date TBD in late March or early April. The barriers are used to protect the Great Egrets, Snowy Egrets, Cattle Egrets and Black-Crowned Night Herons who nest in trees in the street median. Volunteers are welcome to join us for a couple of hours, or to stay till the barrier is complete. For more information, contact Tina Boaz at tbomari@gmail.com.
The Lincoln School Bird Day is set for May 20th 8:30am-Noon. Volunteers are needed for set up and take down activities, help students and community members look at the nesting birds and understand their importance, and share education activities.
For more information, contact Tina Boaz at tbomari@gmail.com.
Throughout the breeding season, volunteer tasks include the rescue and transport of heron and egret babies that have fallen from the nests, community outreach at the site educating locals about the rookery.
Bird-a-thon
A great Madrone Audubon tradition, the Bird-a-Thon, is our annual fun/fund-raising effort, occurring during winter migration months through the height of spring’s busy bird breeding season.
Participating is quite simple: Form a team of your birding friends. Give yourselves a fun name, and solicit donations - from friends, family and co-workers - to “reward” your team for how many species of birds the team observed in a specified time period. And if you are not on a team, please support the Bird-a-Thon teams
All experience levels are welcome. Teams may survey anywhere in Sonoma County, for a day, several days or even weeks, at your convenience. Your sponsors can pledge per species observed (such as $1-$2) or just donate a single amount for your worthy efforts (e.g. $25, $50). The goal is just to have fun birding AND raise money for Madrone’s programs. For further information, contact Carolyn Greene at 805 443-7289, cgnpark@icloud.com.
