Bucks County Birders
Est. 2003
Welcome to Bucks County Birding
Join us in exploring the beautiful world of wild birds in southeastern Pennsylvania.
This Month in Bucks Birding
October: Migration Continues, Watch for Sparrows, and returning Winter Residents
Fall migration is still going on! In the East we are lucky to be in a zone through which neo tropic migrants lazily move through on their way to the wintering grounds. As well as the returning songbirds, there are lingering shore birds, returning ducks, and sparrows visiting some of their usual haunts. The raptor show continues. While Broad-winged Hawks are essentially finished (except for those caught between storm cells), others like Cooper’s Hawks, Sharp-shinned Hawks, and the coveted American Goshawk are possible at hawk watches as well as falcons and Eagles. At the end of the month, into November is the best time to get a Golden Eagle. Northwest winds are the most desirable for aiding migrants.
For those of you who rely on your ears for birding, it is more difficult. The warblers primarily keep to chip notes over songs. If you hear Chickadees and Titmouse, watch to see if their migrant friends are joining them. Be sure to check all habitats and expect the unexpected. And of course, tell everyone you know to dim the lights and leave their yards messy!
Events roundup
All Nature Centers run Saturday bird walks. Please check their websites.
Warrington Warbler Walks (Select Fridays) at Lower Nike. Please check our calendar to register.
Oct 17th - Day trip Herford Inlet and Shore Points Moving North - Register via our calendar.
Oct 10th - World Migratory Bird Day
Oct 10th and 11th - Peace Valley Park Migratory Bird Celebration - details here
eBird update: The October eBirder of the month challenge: Submit five (5) or more eligible checklists on October Big Day—10 October 2026 for a chance to be the eBirder of the Month and win a new ZEISS SFL 8×40 binocular! Check the website for the rules. Also, eBird unleashed a new feature to upload sound recordings from your favorite sound recorder app (including Merlin Sound ID). Check this out.
Conservation Corner: The Bird Collision Monitoring project has started for the 4th season. We are still looking for volunteers to cover for 3 days of the week. If you are good with Phone apps, have keen eyes and strong heart to look for dead/injured birds, please contact us(bucksbirders@gmail.com). It is a citizen science project with an immediate positive impact to help raise awareness of window collisions.
Finally, please keep the LIGHTS OUT during migration nights (August 15 to November 15)!!
You can do ‘LIGHTS OUT pledge’ for office and residential buildings (including single family homes) using the link here.
For more info on ‘LIGHTS OUT program’ please check BirdSafePhilly.org
Upcoming Events and Programs
‘The Chat - Birding in Bucks’ Blog
The Chat - Our newest addition to Bucks County Birders. We wanted to share some fresh, peer-reviewed, member-created content. If you have a talent and penchant for writing, please show your creative side — it could be a bird- or nature-related essay, journal notes or a narrative from your recent bird walk, a travelogue, a poem, or a drawing. Anything that inspires us and sends us back to birding.
This new blog site will appear on our website (buckscountybirders.com) as one of the tabs named "The Chat - Birding in Bucks Blog".
Birds of Bucks County
A Bucks Audubon Publication!
We are delighted to announce that the 2nd edition of Birds of Bucks County has been published! It is available at book stores and at the Bucks County Audubon Book Store for pick up for $30. Please order your copy today at Bucks Audubon Store here.
The goal of the PA Bird Atlas 3 is to record what birds are breeding in PA and what birds reside here in the winter. If you bird, you can be contributing! The best place to start is at the Atlas Project on eBird . If you have ANY questions feel free to email your atlas coordinators, Erich Boenzli and Barbara Stollsteimer at PBA3.Bucks@gmail.com.
Bucks County is broken down into 78 blocks - 72 full size (3 mile by 3 mile) and 6 partial blocks along the Delaware River. We would love it if you wanted to take responsibility for a block (you don’t have to do all the birding - just track it’s status and see what it needs).
Find out what blocks are available here: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/63b22e740f834def847b1d9f211cb0e3/page/PA-Bird-Atlas-Map/
DVOC has created a PA Bird Atlas resource page here - https://dvoc.org/birding/other-resources/pba3/.
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Bird Walks
Explore birding in Bucks County and nearby locations with us by joining our monthly trips or bird walks in local parks.
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Meetings
Primarily by Zoom and periodically in person on the 4th Tuesday of the month, we invite an interesting speaker to our monthly meeting. Check who is joining us next month!
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Conservation
Education and Habitat Conservation is high on our list of priorities. We are committed to set aside a portion of our funds towards conservation efforts that have a specific impact in our county. Learn more.
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Join Us
We love to see you join our flock and be a part of the Bucks County birding community. Join us today.