Cheyenne Audubon invites the public with any level of birdwatching experience to join them in any of several ways for the Christmas Bird Count on Saturday, Dec. 20:
- Count with chapter members. Meet at 8 a.m., Downtown Cheyenne Post Office, 2120 Capitol Avenue, to be assigned to a group birding a local hotspot for a couple hours. No birdwatching expertise required, but dress for the weather.
- Count on your own within the count circle and report birds counted via eBird checklist (see the latest newsletter posted at https://cheyenneaudubon.org/).
- Count birds at your feeder located within the count circle. See newsletter for details.
Then … come to the Tally Party Potluck at 6 p.m., 3417 Yucca Road. RSVP Barb Gorges, bgorges4@msn.com.
Please register with Grant Frost, count compiler, 307-343-2024, if you plan to join the morning bird counting so that he can contact you if plans change. Also call in your bird list to him if you don’t use eBird and won’t make the tally party.
For more information about the Cheyenne-High Plains Audubon Society, please visit https://cheyenneaudubon.org/.
This is a free event open to the public. Everyone, no matter what your birding skills, is invited. 
Sophie A. H. Osborn is an award-winning environmental writer and wildlife biologist whose work has included the study and conservation of more than a dozen bird species in the Americas. She contributed to reintroduction efforts for several endangered birds and served as the field manager for the California Condor Recovery Program in Arizona for four years.
This is a free event open to the public. Everyone, no matter what your birding skills, is invited. 
Cheyenne Audubon is hosting a Greenway cleanup event, Sunday, September 14th. The public is invited to help. The starting location is the parking lot adjacent to the intersection of Van Buren Avenue and Laramie Street (just north of East Lincolnway and east of its intersection with Pershing Blvd.). Work will proceed to the north along Dry Creek and should take a little over an hour. Trash bags and light-weight gloves will be provided. Participants should wear sturdy footwear (preferably waterproof) and heavy gloves and bring rakes and hoes, if available, for fishing trash out of the creek.
If you are a current member of Cheyenne-High Plains Audubon, you will receive membership renewal information in the mail in the coming week. Members of the National Audubon Society (in our three-county area – Laramie, Goshen, and Platte) will also receive membership information from us in the coming week. 
Did you know that our Audubon Chapter adopted a section of the Cheyenne Greenway in 1992? We clean the creek and grounds from the U.S. 30 Underpass to Rawlins Street twice annually; in spring and fall. But did you know the history of this area adoption? 
vegetation near the creek. While we generally support the use of goats for weed control, we want to thank the members who contacted us about the placement of goats this spring. Rather than controlling noxious weeds like Leafy Spurge, they were eating trees (like Cottonwood, above) and shrubs that were planted to benefit wildlife. CHPAS representatives intend to meet with the City of Cheyenne to discuss the proper use of goats along the Dry Creek area and throughout our parks. Watch our website for a Position Statement on using goats for weed control, currently in development. 
Cheyenne-High Plains Audubon Society 