Regular membership meetings of the Mendocino Coast Audubon Society are held the 3rd Monday of the month from September to May (except December) at the Fort Bragg Town Hall on the corner of Laurel and Main Streets in Fort Bragg. Meetings are free and open to the public. Please check the Whistling Swan or the MCAS Website meetings page for up-dates.
Chapter Board meetings are held on the 4th Monday of the month from September through May at 6:00 pm. Members are welcome, please call ahead to confirm the date and location.
Field Trips are scheduled on the second Saturday of the month. Local birding hot spots are visited to take advantage of seasonal birding opportunities. See the Whistling Swan for changes, for additional trips and bird walks.
Monthly Bird Walks at the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens, led by an MCAS member, are scheduled year round on the 1st Saturday at 9:00 AM, and the 3rd Wednesday at 8:00 AM (except at 8:30 AM November through February), of each month. We go light-rain or shine. For information call 964-6835.
12 Field Trip: 9:00 am, Virgin Creek Beach. Meet at Pudding Creek overlook, just north of Pudding Creek bridge.
16 Bird Walk: 8:00 am, Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
19 Beach Cleanup: 9:00 am, Saturday. Meet at the south end of Ten Mile Bridge.
20 Pelagic Trip: Sunday, Noyo Harbor. Reservations required
21 Chapter Meeting: 7:00 pm, 'Hokkaido in the Winter', Speaker: Ron LeValley
11 Field Trip: 9:00 am, Glass Beach. Meet at the west end of Elm Street, Fort Bragg.
19 Chapter Meeting: 7:00 pm, 'Birding the "Stans"- a trip through Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan', Speaker: Matthew Matthiessen
21 Bird Walk: 8:00 am, Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
14 Field Trip: 9:00 am, Hawks of the South Coast. Meet at the south end of Navarro River Bridge to caravan south.
16 Chapter Meeting: 7:00 pm, 'Albatross and Penguins', Speaker: Ted Cheeseman
18 Bird Walk: 8:00 am, Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
12 Field Trip: 9:00 am, Point Arena and Manchester.
Meet at Hwy 1 and Miner Hole Road, Mile Post 17.54
16 Bird Walk: 8:00 am, Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
9 Field Trip: 9:00 am, Ten Mile River and Beach. Meet at south end of Ten Mile Bridge.
18 Chapter Meeting: 7:00 pm, 'Bats', Speaker: Patricia Winters (Bat Ma'am)
20 Bird Walk: 8:00 am, Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
13 Field Trip: New Owls of the Mendocino Coast. Starting time and location TBD.
15 Chapter Meeting: 7:00 pm, 'Counting Cormorants: How Citizen Science helps understand ocean changes', Speaker: Ron LeValley
17 Bird Walk: 8:00 am, Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
14 Field Trip: 9:00 am, Van Damme Beach and State Park. Meet at the Van Damme Beach parking lot.
12? Joint Meeting. 6:00 pm.
17 Bird Walk: 8:00 am, Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
10 Field Trip: 9:00 am, Sea Ranch. Meet at Knipp-Stengle Barn, west side of Hwy 1, Mile Post 53.76.
19 Chapter Meeting: 7:00 pm, Gualala Art Center, Gualala. 'Trinidad and Tobago', Speakers: Edward Rooks. The annual South Coast meeting.
21 Bird Walk: 8:00 am, Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
8 Field Trip: Saturday 8:00 am, Navarro River and Beach. Meet at south end of Navarro River bridge.
24 Chapter Meeting: 7:00 pm, 'Natural and Manmade Reefs, fifteen Years in the Little Yellow Submarine – Now it Can be Told.', Speaker: Dr Milton Love
19 Bird Walk: 8:00 am, Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
23 Field Trip: New Hendy Woods. Carpool from Harvest Market parking lot at 7:30 am. or meet at Hendy Woods entrance at 8:30 am.
13 Field Trip: New Birding by Kayak. Fee required. Time and location TBD
16 Bird Walk: 8:00 am, Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
10 Field Trip: 8:00 am, Lake Cleone and Laguna Point, MacKerricher State Park. Meet at Lake Cleone parking lot.
21 Bird Walk: 8:00 am, Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
14 Field Trip: New Good-bye Summer, Hello Fall - Transitional birding potluck trip. Location TBD.
18 Bird Walk: 8:00 am, Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
