October 2012 meeting report

ABC met on October 25, 2012, and we were regaled with tales of Cape May, New Jersey, by Ed and Kay Pullen including many interesting tips on identifying hawks in flight that they picked up from Pete Dunne and witnessing an amazing falcon migration that Kay called the most exciting birding of her life!

Then Marcus Roening reported on his recent Ecuador trip with Heather and his original birding buddy with whom he first did this trip 20 years earlier. It was fascinating to hear about the changes in the intervening years, both good and bad.

We also heard from Bruce Hoeft on attending an event about Crow Roosts at the UW-Bothell, including watching that particular stream of Crows come in, something we can all relate to. Then we saw ABC field trip photos from Pat Damron, and we’ll have lots more of those at the November meeting on November 29!

You are needed for the Grays Harbor Winter Shorebird Survey

> From: jbroadus@seanet.com > > Subject: (Fwd) more info GH Winter Shorebird Survey INFO > > It is a project to count shorebirds all along the Pac. seaboard over a number of years, beginning this year. Our area is > Grays Harbor. Shep and I have signed up through the refuge. As you can see from the email, they need > more volunteers than we can provide. All need to be at least a little skookum on counting shorebirds. The > ABC club members would be ideal. Have them contact Cyndie directly, CYNDIE SUNDSTRUM (snowplover@comcast.net). > Jerry Broadus > > > > ——- Forwarded message follows ——- > Subject: more info GH Winter Shorebird Survey INFO > From: > Date sent: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:02:32 -0700 > > Y’all, > Attached are a couple of flyers on the upcoming PRBO winter shorebird > survey at GH — training is on the 20th of this month (A COUPLE OF > WEEKENDS AWAY)…. We believe the training will be at GH Comm College > (on the road to Westport [hiway 105] – just past the small Aberdeen > shopping mall). No room or building info yet. Others are working on > that. The training should be between 10 or 11am to ~5:30pm or so. > > Because the need is to (apparently) have as many as 20+ volunteers to > help w/ this project we have decided we need to look beyond you (our > core group of trusty, birdy volunteers). So please read Jean’s email > (below) and see the attachments. Please pass this on to any ‘birdy’ > friends you think would like to help w/ this… It is open to all. > PRBO will sort out who’s doing what after the training session…. > > CYNDIE SUNDSTRUM (snowplover@comcast.net) will be heading up the > coordination / communications / emails/ etc about this whole thing > from now on… She can get your email addresses off this email. She > will most likely send a map to the GHCC, and as before I suggest y’all > car pool in a Refuge Vehicle. > > IF YOU ARE NOT PLANNING TO ATTEND THIS UPCOMING TRAINING SESSION ON > OCT 20TH PLEASE LET CYNDIE –not me — KNOW. SHEP, I remember your > email question and am trying to get some clarification. I will get > back to you. > > CYNDIE: Please pick up these individual’s email address’s (rt click > on each of them), to add to your email list for this project. They > will contact you w/ questions if they have them. They have all > expressed interest, I believe they are all planning to attend the > Training and they all REALLY want to know when between NOV 15 and DEC > 15 the survey will take place (as we all do). > > Marian M. Bailey > Refuge Wildlife Biologist > Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge Complex > 100 Brown Farm Road > Olympia, WA 98516 > Phone: (360) 753-9467 > Fax: (360) 534-9302 > marian_bailey@fws.gov > > Jean Takekawa/NISQ/R1/FWS/DOI > 10/09/2012 01:48 PM > > > Hi, > > We are working with the Point Reyes Bird Observatory to do a shorebird > survey out in the Grays Harbor Estuary starting this fall. This first > year will focus on developing methods, refining survey locations, and > conducting a survey in Nov/Dec. Surveys and recording will be done > largely by trained volunteers. The training that PRBO will provide is > scheduled for October 20th. I wondered if you might be interested or > know anyone who might like to join this volunteer effort? I know how > busy you all are, so if you’re not available, maybe you know someone > who might have an interest. We are circulating this to Black Hills > Audubon, Grays Harbor Audubon, some Refuge volunteers, and some of the > birders we know in the area, but we wanted to get it more broadly > circulated, so feel free to post or pass this on to others. > > We appreciate your continued support and interest in Grays Harbor and > the Refuge. > > Thanks, Jean >

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