Movie Night at ABC! Oct 24, 2013 We celebrated two years of ABC with movies and theater candy! Thanks, Ryan Wiese and others for making the video and audio both happen! Since November and December are filled with other stuff, we probably won’t meet again until the fourth week of January. What would you like to see happen in 2014? With our group, anything is possible. Longer field trips are being bandied about. Contact Ken Brown with any ideas for programs, classes, field trips at kennethwbrown@hotmail.com, and cc to Ed Pullen at edwardpullen@gmail.com and Diane Y-Q at Avosetta@hotmail.com. The world is waiting! Several ABC’ers might be drafted to give a report on how to get to Ecuador and other nearby areas, logistically speaking and for less than a king’s ransom. Volunteer for this if you have tips! First up, we saw a short subject that everyone in attendance identified with strongly! “Far East Tour” by Cara Borre and Asta Tobiassen, “far east” meaning far eastern Washington! Their trip in June this year had everyone nodding and laughing at the right times. We laughed and we cried!! As we speak they are flying off to Maui, and they might just see more birds. More of their stuff can be seen on Youtube at their Wild Thing Productions webpage: https://www.youtube.com/user/wildthingproduction1?feature=watch Then we watched the feature film, “Birders: The Central Park Effect,” which brought back great memories to a number of us including Kay & Ed Pullen, who had actually birded with Star Saphir, the bird leader profiled, who died earlier this year. Also David Marshall lived for 2 years in NYC and saw 21 or 22 warblers there in one short morning! One of the writers profiled, Jonathan Franzen, later published a #1 bestseller that featured a Cerulean Warbler on its cover and as a main character, “Freedom,” which also landed Jonathan on the cover of Time Magazine. (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_%28Jonathan_Franzen_novel%29). For those who asked how to get the movie, you can buy it on line at Amazon and other places: http://www.amazon.com/Birders-Central-Effect-Regina-Alvarez/dp/B009VRVGLK/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1382676097&sr=1-1&keywords=birders+the+central+park+effect Christmas Bird Counts coming up! Get ready! Some of our group at movie night (click to enlarge):
