Education

Ohlone Audubon Society is committed to educating adults and youth on the value of natural habitats and the wildlife they support.  Attend a local bird watching class or sign up a local school for Audubon Adventures!

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Bird Watching Classes and Workshops

Beginning Birding Instruction:
Rich Cimino, is a skilled facilitator and mentor that utilizes practical birding skills to teach the beginner birder. Tailored for the individual or a small group you’ll learn the fundamentals of using your binoculars, field guide, bird field marks and birding by habitat. Schedule to suit your busy life style and small group classes by calling 925-353-0266 or email by clicking on his name here: Rich Cimino  or emailiing yellowbilledtours AT gmail.com

Intermediate and advance birding clients;
Use the services of Yellowbilled Tours. With 45 years of birding experience Rich supports all levels of birders throughout California eco-regions, Coastal, Sierra Nevada’s to Oregon.  For Alaska we do annual trips to Nome, Barrow and Gambell, Alaska.  The Belize field trip is in its fifth year and clients love the results.  Trips can also be scheduled to Santa Fe, New Mexico and all of Arizona.

Rich is available seven days a week for your convenience.  You can pick a birding location, a specific bird species or ask Rich to plan your field trip, to meet your requirements.  Consider using Yellowbilled Tours service for birthdays, family reunions and group activities. 

Bay Area airport pick-up can be scheduled. BART station pick-up’s and drop off’s can be arranged for East Bay Birding trips or Mines Road – Livermore Birding and Wine Tasting trips. YBT uses a modern, safe comfortable high clearance SUV for field travel.  Contact Rich and Yellowbilled Tours by clicking om his name here: Rich Cimino or emailing yellowbilledtours AT gmail.com

To contact Rich and Yellowbilled Tours, for details on new birding field trips visit www.yellowbilledtours.com

Youth Education

OAS Helps City of Fremont’s Junior Ranger Program

Sandy Ferreira, now retired, previously managed the city of Fremont’s Junior Ranger Program based at Lake Elizabeth. She found it difficult to share her enthusiasm for birds with the City’s Junior Rangers because they didn’t have the ability to see them clearly.

One day, while talking to Sandy about leading a Lake Elizabeth trip for OAS, Mona Brauer and Stephanie Floyd heard about the situation and suggested to the OAS Board that we loan Sandy binoculars for her classes. Soon the Fremont Recreation Department, Phil Gordon, the Eagle Optics company and Wild Birds Unlimited of Dublin also got involved in solving the problem.

The upshot was that OAS purchased and made a long term loan if 17 pairs of binoculars to the City’s Junior Ranger program to allow students make wildlife observations and study nature. City Recreation staff continue to utilize these binoculars when they are teaching birding and nature programs.  

If you would like to learn more about the Junior Rangers and check out their programs, including a birds booklet, an accompanying teacher’s guide, and other neighborhood booklets at https://www.juniorwildliferanger.org/neighborhood

Introduce Children To Audubon Adventures 

Engaging students in grades 3 through 6 in nature study and environmental stewardship.

This fall semester, sponsor your favorite 4th, 5th, or 6th-grade class to Audubon Adventures, the nature program of the National Audubon Society.  A classroom kit contains enough material for 32 students and the cost is $40.95 ($35 plus $5.95 shipping and handling). This program has connected seven million children across the nation to nature with these in-school educational materials. Our school budgets are perennially tight; so please help a teacher at your local elementary school.  This is a gift subscription that will really make a difference to the earth’s future!

For more information on this program please contact our Education Chair by clicking on the link or emailing education AT ohloneaudubon.org.  

National Audubon Adventures Site