About us
Welcome to Wake Audubon Society – where our love for nature meets a commitment to inclusion and belonging and providing programs, outings and activities where all can safely access and celebrate nature.
As a chapter of Audubon NC and the National Audubon Society, our 1,900-strong community in Wake, Johnston, Franklin, and Nash counties, North Carolina, is proud to lead education, conservation, and advocacy efforts to grow our region responsibly and with concern for the birds, wildlife and places we all live.
There is no requirement to join Wake Audubon Society in order to be a member of this Meetup. There is no fee for this Meetup. We encourage you to join Wake Audubon, however, as we depend on member fees to support our environmental projects.
This group enjoys local (and regional) outings to experience wildlife in the Raleigh, Wake County area of North Carolina. We focus on birding, and we enjoy teaching anyone who is new to birding. We welcome visitors to the area who want to attend our outings.
Wake Audubon hosts free, public, in-person educational programs that are generally held on the second Tuesday of each month, 7:30 p.m. in the NC Museum of Natural Sciences Nature Research Center, 121 W Jones St. Raleigh, NC, 4th floor meeting room. Most of these programs can also be viewed virtually via Zoom. See the topic, and confirm the location and Zoom link for each program in our Meetup or calendar posts.
We also volunteer for various events, including river cleanups, invasive species removal, nestbox maintenance, helping with events at various parks and museums, and community science projects such the Christmas Bird Count and Great Backyard Bird Count.
Thanks for your interest in Wake Audubon. Come, join us!
Our mission statement: "To foster knowledge, appreciation, and enjoyment of nature; to encourage responsible environmental stewardship; to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats, for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity."
Upcoming events
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Family Moth Night at White Deer Park in Garner 2026-09-18
White Deer Park Nature Center, 2400 State Rd 2710, Garner, NC, USCelebrate Parks for Pollinators month and enjoy a night at White Deer Park learning all about moths! Gather around the black lights to make moth observations and get up close with them and other insects. Participants will use identification guides, iNaturalist, and a common moths bingo sheet to identify what they find. Bring your camera and/or phone to collect observations of moths. This event is for adults and families (ages 6 and up).
Each person attending must register with the Town of Garner here:
Program: Family Moth Night (9/18/26)We highly recommend having the iNaturalist app on your phone before you arrive if you'd like to participate in the Parks for Pollinators BioBlitz. You can learn more about this project here:
Parks for Pollinators 2026: Town of Garner Parks · iNaturalist1 attendee
LGBTQ+ and allies: Let’s Go Birding Together at Durant Nature Preserve
Durant Nature Preserve, 8305 Camp Durant Rd, Raleigh, NC 27614, Raleigh, NC, USLGBTQ+ and allies: Let’s Go Birding Together at Durant Nature Preserve!
Saturday, September 19, 8:15* a.m. - 10:30 a.m. (*Arrive at 8:00 if borrowing binoculars.)
RSVP to this event here on Meetup. Or off-Meetup via this form if you prefer to keep your RSVP private.
Sponsors: Wake Audubon and the LGBT Center of Raleigh.Let’s enjoy late summer - and early fall migrants - with another affirming and inclusive bird outing. We welcome the LGBTQ+ community, allies, families, and anyone who wants to enjoy an outdoor experience that is inclusive. Why? Because the outdoors has not always been a welcoming place for persons who identify as LGBTQ+ and Wake Audubon and the LGBT Center of Raleigh seek to help change that.
The pace of this outing will be geared towards building our beginner birding skills.
We’ll take a leisurely stroll along easy-to-traverse paved and soft trails with slight grade changes, with plenty of space and time to stop, see and listen for the various birds that prefer Durant Nature Preserve's forests and thicket edges along our approximately 1.5-mile trail.
Borrow binoculars from us or bring your own. If borrowing binoculars, please arrive at 8:00 a.m. to be provided a pair and receive personalized help to focus them for your eyesight.
Note: 8:15 is a little earlier start for this event - yet, we're intentionally trying get on trail ahead of some shelter rentals possibly impacting the birds we might see.
Driving directions: NORTH entrance of Durant Nature Preserve at the end of Camp Durant Road. (Note: There is also a south entrance on Spottswood Drive; we won't be there.) Park in the paved lot. Look for others with binoculars gathered in the lot near the Park Office. Gendered restrooms are available there.
Please bring your own refillable water bottle. We'll bring plenty of snacks to share.
What bird species frequent the Park? Check out Durant Nature Preserve bird sightings ahead of us adding a checklist of our own on ebird.org.
Leader is Lynn Erla Beegle, 919-673-6136, with co-leaders along to help with optics and bird sightings.
Questions ahead? Reach your organizer and host - Wake Audubon board member and Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging co-chair Rick LaRose at rlarose.was@gmail.com
We’re looking forward to birding together with you on September 19!
Wake Audubon advocates wildlife, nature and environmental conservation with a commitment to providing activities where all can safely access and celebrate nature as their authentic selves.
The LGBT Center of Raleigh envisions an inclusive world where LGBTQ+ people are thriving, equal, and valued members of society.38 attendees
Past events
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