December 2024
Tue, Dec 10
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ML Birders: “The Messenger” Part 2Tue, Dec 1010:30 am – 11:30 amML Birders: “The Messenger” Part 2Holly Room
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View or Download a slideshow: Winter Birds of Medford Leas
The Medford Leas Birders hold monthly meetings, organize field trips, and provide a yearly January census of birds found on the two campuses of Medford Leas in Lumberton and Medford, New Jersey. Medford Leas and the Lewis W. Barton Arboretum and Nature Preserve comprise over 250 acres of varied habitats, including wooded tracts, Rancocas Creek and tributary streams, and managed meadows.
Normally, we meet September through June in the Linden Room of the Medford Leas Community Building at 10:30 AM on the first Tuesday of the month. We have presentations, either by an outside speaker or by our members, or sometimes share videos about birds. Our indoor meetings were suspended from March 2020 to September 2021 due to the pandemic, but programs and field trips now once again invite guests to join us.
Download our 2024-2025 calendar of trips and programs: MLBirders Schedule24-25
Our field trips may be long (most of a day) or short (back by lunch). All field trips leave from the Medford Leas Community Building.
A historical checklist of birds seen on both the Medford and Lumberton campuses is available here.
A New Jersey field list to print and use is available here.
We have participated in the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology Feeder Watch and Great Backyard Bird Count programs, the National Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count, and our own winter censuses for many years. We erect and maintain bluebird boxes in the meadows. We encourage the Horticulture Department at Medford Leas to plant native shrubs and trees for fruit and habitats for birds of this area, to preserve dead trees to provide food and nesting areas for birds, and to schedule mowing of the meadows in early spring to encourage the bluebird population. Visit the bluebird page for the most recent project, and use the “Reports” menu link above for our other census data.