Wake Audubon Birding and Environmental Meetup

Birdability Week: Wooten Meadow Park Bird Outing (2026-10-24)
Location 2801 West Millbrook Road, Raleigh NC

Birdability Week is a celebration of birders with disabilities and other health concerns, as well as an opportunity to share resources and ideas to help the birding community become accessible, inclusive, and welcoming to everybody!

Join us for an accessible bird outing around Raleigh's wetland recharge park, Wooten Meadow Park, on Saturday, October 24, 2026, from 8:30 to 10:00 a.m. There is ample parking, no steps, no steep slopes, and the north half of the 21-acre park has paved walkways through a picturesque wetland marsh, a grassy field, and a set of native trees, shrubs, grasses, and wildflowers (and birds). Note that there is no restroom. Service animals are welcome.

Birdability Week 2026 takes place October 19 - 25.
This year's theme, Bird Where You Are, is an invitation to notice the birds around you in whatever way works best for you. It is also a reminder that you don't have to bird a certain way, know every species, hike long distances, or keep up with anyone else to be part of this community.

Organized by Audubon partner Birdability, this national event celebrates accessibility and inclusion in birding, affirming that birding is for everybody and every body.

Leader: Lynn Erla Beegle, 673-6136 , Optmystc1@gmail.com
Organizer: Rick LaRose, co-chair of Wake Audubon’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion committee

For more information on Birdability and Birdability Week visit:
https://www.birdability.org/
and
https://www.birdability.org/birdability-week

Updated August 11, 2026

Birding at Bass Lake and Sugg Farm (Bass Lake Park)
Join Wake Audubon for a Bird Outing at Bass Lake and Sugg Farm on SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2026, at 8:15.
*TENTATIVE DATE - CHECK BACK BY OCTOBER 1.
Please sign up for this walk, as we try to limit this to 25 birders.
--> NOTE: No Turnipseed birdwalk in August: birds are molting, silent, and it tends to be our hottest month.
Leader is Jessica Williams (jesswilliams888@gmail.com, 913-424-5062).
RSVP opens October 1 at 7 am.

This 2+ mile walk on unpaved trails begins at 8:15 and ends approximately 10:30 (and often later). The park opens at 8 am. The address is 900 Bass Lake Road, Holly Springs, NC (note that this is the main parking lot, not the smaller lot on another road). Meet on the trail near the restrooms. We will walk the east side of Bass Lake, then take the trail to Sugg Farm, then return to the Bass Lake parking lot. The trail can be a tad soggy after heavy rains.

Here is a link to the Bass Lake hotspot: https://ebird.org/hotspot/L1352674

You don't need an ebird.org account to participate - but ebird is a great way to keep track of what you have seen (and it helps scientists note the location and abundance of bird populations). The Leader will make and share an ebird.org checklist and share it with your ebird account. Keeping your own individual list is discouraged because this duplicates the data, but you can edit your list once it's shared to you.
Let's Go Birding!