• Home
  • Calendar of Events
  • Field Trip Results
  • Christmas Bird Counts
  • What is Birding?
  • SDOU
  • Donation Center
  • Citizen Science
  • Dewey Gevik Nature Area
  • Minnehaha/Lincoln County Check List
  • Makoce Washte
  • Good Earth State Park
  • Alpha Code for Birds
  • Member Writings
  • eBird
  • Links to Birding Sites
  • Bird Cams
  • Area Birding Maps and Locations
  • The Lighter Side of Birding
  • Sunrise/Sunset Times
  • Maps
  • Feeding and Feeders
  • Monthly Newsletter

Calendar of Events

Most field trips start at the Sioux Falls Outdoor Campus parking lot. Car pooling is standard procedure, with passengers chipping in a few dollars for gas or a wash. Cars will be equipped with 2-way radios for instant communication with other vehicles. Usually, the group is back between noon and 1:00 PM . If you are a beginning birder, we welcome you. The only item you need to bring is a pair of binoculars . New SFBC members get a club shoulder patch.

Outdoor Campus East

hq from south close 2.jpg?1503606182794

2020 SFBC Field Trip/Meeting Schedule

·        January 18- Winter finches (Sioux Falls cemeteries)- 8:30 AM

·        February 8- TBD- 8:30 AM

·        February 20-Business Meeting-7:00 PM (date change)

·        March 21-Early waterfowl (area wetlands)-8:00 AM

·        April 18-Shorebirds (area wetlands)-8:00 AM

·        April24-26 -SDOU Spring meeting Belle Fourche SD

·  May 16- Migrating warblers, etc. (Outdoor Campus, Perry 

   Nature Area)-7:30 AM

·        June 6- Migrating and nesting songbirds- (Good Earth SP)-7:30 AM

·       July 11-Nesting woodland and sandbar birds (Adams Homestead Missouri River)-7:30 AM

·        August 22-Shorebirds (area wetlands)-8:00 AM

·        SDOU Fall meeting (possibly at Hot Springs)

·        September 12- Migrating warblers, gulls etc. (Newton Hills SP)-8:00 AM

·        October 6- Business Meeting- 7:00 PM

·        October 10-Sparrows, late warblers, gulls, etc. (Freeman Preserve,

      Lake Alvin)-8:00 AM

·        November 7- Waterfowl (area wetlands)-8:00 AM

·        December 19- Sioux Falls CBC- 7:30 AM

·         January 2- Canton CBC- 7:30 AM



2019 SFBC Field Trip Schedule and Meeting Schedule

April 27 – Shorebirds (wetlands near Sioux Falls)                                                                              7:30 a.m.

 

May 11 – Migrating warblers, etc. (Newton Hills State Park)                                                           7:00 a.m.

 

May 17-19 – SDOU Spring Meeting (Sioux Falls, SD) Details here

 

June 8 – Migrating and nesting songbirds (Gitchie Manitou State Preserve)                                   7:30 a.m.

 

July 13 – Nesting woodland/grassland birds (Freeman Preserve)                                                     7:30 a.m.

 

August 24– Shorebirds (wetlands near Sioux Falls)  (note the date change)                                                                         8:00 a.m.

 

September 7 – Migrating warblers, etc. (Good Earth State Park)                                                     8:00 a.m.

 

October 08 – Business Meeting   (at Outdoor Campus for bird Rehab program)                                                                                                        7:00 p.m. (note the date change)

 October 4-6 - SDOU Fall Meeting Pierre Ramkota - Register Here

October 19 – Sparrows, late warblers, gulls (Wall Lake, Dewey Gevik, Atkins Slough)   

                   8:00 a.m.  Note the date change due to the weather.


 

November 9 – Waterfowl (wetlands near Sioux Falls)                                                                 8:00 a.m.

 

December 14 – Sioux Falls CBC                                                                                                    7:30 a.m.

 December 28 – Canton CBC