All tips raised from the celebrity bartending event will be donated to Tamarack for supplies such as medication, bandages and food.

The warbler has reliably been at the Budny Beach parking lot for days. Monday night around 7 it was feeding on insects that were making themselves at home in a gull carcass.

A Kentucky warbler at Presque Isle State Park on April 29, 2013. Contributed photo/LINDA MARTIN

Kentucky warblers typically remain south of Erie in the spring and summer.

Campers can to go www.KOA.com to see a list of other participating campgrounds and make reservations. 

Campers also may enter the Great KOA Giveaway for a chance to win a new $40,000 Keystone Cougar recreational vehicle, and a decade of free KOA camping. Weekly prizes from KOA, Cabela’s and Weber Grills are also available.

Crews will be start work at 9 a.m. at Chappel Bay near Route 321, south of the Bradford Ranger Station, along the Kinzua Arm of the Allegheny Reservoir. Workers will build a short bog bridge of native material and reroute a small section of the trail away from a wet area.

Work should be completed in one day. Tools and hard hats will be provided, but volunteers should pack lunch and water. Gloves and sturdy footwear are recommended.

If you or your organization or business would like to get involved, contact Mike or Tina Toole  at (814) 723-4714 or e-mail nct001@verizon.net.

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Meet at refuge headquarters, 11296 Wood Duck Lane, Guys Mills, for an educational program before venturing into the woods with program leader Judy Acker from Audubon Pennsylvania.

Leaders will use recordings of owl calls to try to get a response from the likes of a great horned owl or barred owl, the most common species known to nest on the refuge.

Group size will be limited and preregistration is required. Call (814) 789-3585 to reserve your spot. Dress for the weather, wear suitable footwear for hiking and take a flashlight.

Trout fishing season in most of Pennsylvania starts April 13, and from that day through April 30 you can upload a photo of you and your best trout. The public will vote on their favorites, and we’ll announce the public vote winner and an editor’s choice winner May 19 on the NWPA Outdoors page in the Erie Times-News.

Winners will receive a fish platter from Allen Stoneware Gallery.

The contest is open only to licensed anglers who are 16 or older at the time of entry, as well as to anglers 16 and under whose parents or guardians enter their photos. Participants must have either caught their trout in Erie, Crawford, Mercer, Venango, Forest or Warren counties, or reside in one of those counties and have caught their trout in Pennsylvania.

Good luck.

The meeting is free and open to the public.

From a news release: “Atlantic tidal marshes have one of the highest rates of endemic vertebrate species, most of which are birds. In 2012, the Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program coordinated Maryland’s portion of the Saltmarsh Habitat and Avian Research Program to help determine status and distribution of saltmarsh birds across the northeast.”

Yeany, a Forest County native, is an ornithologist and conservation planning specialist for the PNHP in the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy Pittsburgh office.

Reservations are not required. The event, from 11 a.m. to 7 a.m. each day, is free to attend, but donations are appreciated.

Ornithologists will capture migrating and resident birds, fit them with identification bands, measure and weigh them, then release them back into the wild.

Dress for the weather and pack bird guides and binoculars if you have them, though they are not necessary.