Important Tips for the Spring Trips!
- The times listed are when the cars are lined up in the parking lot and leaving. Please be there at least 10 minutes early and identify yourself to the leader.
- Field trip leaders cell phone numbers will be provided. If you decide not to go on a trip, either scratch through your name beforehand on the supplied lists or show up at the meeting place and tell someone.
- Please be sure to check the trip sheets at the registration desks for any changes to the field trip details! There will be a sheet with all directions for your trips emailed to you in advance and copies will be provided at registration with field trip sheets.
- All trips depart from the hotel in the parking lot. Look for the placard with your trip number. There will be a sheet with all directions for your trips e-mailed to you in advance. Please bring it on each trip as caravans sometimes break down, and, if so, you'll still be able to get to the trip site. Get the leader's cell number before you leave, just in case.
- Plan to take snacks and beverages with you, and be sure to pack a lunch for the all-day trips.
- Sunscreen and insect repellant should be brought along on all trips.
- Please check weather conditions for the need of rain gear.
- We try to take as few vehicles as possible on field trips in order to save fuel, make caravanning easier, and to make better use of the limited parking that exists at some stops. Please plan on carpooling, and if you would like to drive and have room for new or old friends, please let your trip leader know when you arrive for your outing.
How to get the eBird checklists for field trips
We are borrowing an idea from The Biggest Week in American Birding and using a new, simple way for you to receive shared eBird checklists from your field trips. Instead of making the field trip leaders have to bother with collecting email addresses or eBird user names from everyone, we have asked the leaders simply to share their checklists with the Club account, from where sharing links will be posted on a web page (https://www.carolinabirdclub.org/checklists/). On this page you can click on the links for the trips that you went on and obtain shared copies of the checklists.
This worked really well at the Winter meeting so we are going to keep doing it.
Also, all of the shared checklists will be pooled into an eBird trip report, summarizing all observations for the meeting. Go to https://ebird.org/tripreport/211520 to view the trip report.