October 2025 Newsletter

Highlights:

• Field Notes: Migration Season and Field Trips

• Bird of the Month: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

• CCAS Nominating Committee Seeks Candidates for 2026

• Apply for Educator Mini-Grants by October 17

Volunteer Opportunities

• Membership Coordinator

• Newsletter Editor

• Program Chair

Events

• Monthly Program: Where the Whip-poor-wills Still Sing: What Shapes Habitat Use, October 2

• Sunday Morning Bird Walks are back through October 26

• Bike with a Naturalist (partner event), October 9

• Weaver Park Bird Walk, sign-up required, October 11

• CCAS Table at Urbana Farmers Market, October 18

• Weaver Park Bird Walk, sign-up required, October 18

• CCAS Board Meeting, October 20

• Birds and Brews at Triptych Brewing in Savoy, October 21

• Owl Night (partner event), October 28

• CCAS Insect Collection Tour, sign-up required, October 30

• Annual Sandhill Crane Migration Field Trip, sign-up required, November 15

• Birds and Brews at Briks Pizza in Mahomet, November 21