Accompany Blackbrook Sunday, March 22 as members continue their monthly Important Bird Area survey at Beaty Landing just east of Painesville. After three years of bird surveys in the Chagrin River Corridor IBA, Blackbrook raises their binoculars in the Grand River – Lower Watershed IBA. Birders can take advantage of Lake Metroparks’ expansion of Beaty Landing with a new parking lot and trail on 35 more acres to find more birds.
Park at the larger, lower lot of Beaty Landing, 543 East Walnut Avenue, Painesville, at 8:00 a.m. Blackbrook will monitor this site on the fourth Sunday of each month for at least another year. The list of birds found is posted on eBird.org.
The trail is rated moderate on compacted gravel and has multiple access points to view the Grand River. National Audubon designated this IBA for its unique mix of habitats: river, forested floodplain and open field.
The group sometimes meets for breakfast afterwards. For more information, visit blackbrookaudubon.org or www.lakemetroparks.com/parks-trails/beaty-landing. Email blackbrookaud@aol.com. Follow Blackbrook Audubon Society on Facebook. Programs and hikes cancelled due to weather will be announced on the iAlert system on WKYC-TV 3, wkyc.com, Newsradio WTAM 1100 AM, wtam. com and WMJI 105.7 FM.
