Meetings and Field Trips
Please join us for the upcoming meetings and field trips. For field trips, please dress appropriately, and bring water, snacks, sunscreen, and bug spray. We usually eat out after the trip, but you may bring lunch.
A document listing all of our programs and field trips since 2016 can be downloaded here.
All Dates and Programs are Subject to Change.
Jan
9
Thu
Our January meeting topic is about birding in Costa Rica, presented by Doris and Howard, using photos by Dave and Carol. It will be a Zoom meeting.
The meeting will start at 7PM.
Feb
6
Thu
Our Feb. 6, 2025 meeting will be our annual member participation event entitled “Favorite Birding Moments of 2024”, where members are invited to tell us about their favorite birding experiences of the past year. This is your opportunity to share your most memorable birding moments of 2024. It might be a common bird that was doing some interesting behavior, or an exotic bird that you saw on vacation, some rare bird that you chased, or a bird that offered a great photo opportunity. _______ will be coordinating this program and assembling the submitted photos into a powerpoint presentation. Typically we have to limit each member to a maximum of five minutes. You can divide that time as you please, but we suggest describing up to five birding experiences. You can certainly present fewer than that if you prefer, and you can show more photos, as long it it doesn’t exceed the time limit. If you don’t have photos, you should still feel free to share the story to help us re-live your birding highlights of the past year. We look forward to a fun evening of great bird stories.
The meeting starts at 7PM on Zoom. Join us.
Mar
1
Sat
SOBG recently was awarded $500 by the Ocean County Adopt-A-Natural Land Site Program to help preserve the natural environment. This money will be used to help fund the SOBG’s annual scholarship. Val Henken is the Administrator. The program requires two clean-up dates per year with 10 participants each. The rain date is March 2.
This is the first Ocean County Clean Communities cleanup. The location is to be determined. Stay tuned and help raise funds for SOBG. the second clean-up with be at Tilton Creek Preserve in Toms River on April 5.
Mar
15
Sat
The Southern Ocean Birding Group will host the 15th annual “Wings Over LBI” event with 3 field trips across Long Beach Island. You can join all of them or any ones that you want.
The group will meet at the parking lots at the following locations:
8AM- 9:30AM Cedar Bonnet Island – 1355-1357, NJ-72, Stafford Township (on 72E, across from The Boathouse. Additional parking on E. Bay Ave.)
10AM-noon Barnegat Lighthouse State Park – 208 Broadway, Barnegat Light
2PM-3:30PM Holgate unit of Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge – 6805 S. Long Beach Blvd., Beach Haven
Rain date is March 16th.
Any donations collected will be put toward the scholarship fund for the Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science (MATES).
Apr
5
Sat
This is the second of two Ocean County Clean Communities cleanups. SOBG was awarded a $500 grant by the Ocean County Adopt-A-Natural Land Site Program to help preserve the natural environment. This money will be used to help fund the SOBG’s annual scholarship. Val Henken is the Administrator. The program requires two clean-up dates per year with 10 participants each. We will meet at Shelter Cove Park (1390 Bay Ave) in Toms River and from there proceed to Tilton Point.
Please participate and help raise funds for SOBG. The rain date is April 6.
Dec
6
Sat
Our 2025 holiday party will be at Harvest Buffet (501 US-9 in Waretown, NJ) December 8th from 2-4 p.m. If you are planning on attending, and we hope you are, please respond to the Evite.
Hope to see you there so we can kick off the holiday season.