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Harvest Dinner
Come and join us for our annual Harvest Dinner at the Chenango Town Hall 1525 NY Route 12. This is a potluck dinner event and please bring prepared hot and cold dishes wrapped to place on the serving tables. The club will provide rolls, margarine, and beverages. BRING YOUR OWN TABLE SERVICE NAPKINS AND SERVING UTENSILS. After dinner we will enjoy the main program featuring LANG ELLIOT OF NATURE SOUND STUDIOS.
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Please join us at our annual potluck dinner. Please bring a dish to pass. Your food contributions should contain 8 to 10 servings for each 2 people in your party. Please bring the prepared hot and cold dishes wrapped to place on the serving tables. Please remember to bring YOUR OWN TABLE SERVICE, NAPKINS AND SERVING UTENSILS. The program for the evening is: Lang Elliott Recording and Appreciating the Sounds of Nature In this presentation, Lang will summarize how he…
Find out more »Member Meeting – “PHOTOGRAPHING WILD” by Teri Franzen
Teri Franzen is passionate about observing and photographing wildlife on its terms, wild, unaltered and undisturbed. She has been a wildlife photographer since 2012 after having met up with a Northern Goshawk on her very first outing. Since then she's photographed mammals and birds throughout the US as well as Italy and Africa. Her two most involved ventures have been photographing Wood Ducks in 2015 and Peregrine Falcons in 2016, both requiring long hours in makeshift blinds. She will discuss these two…
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Member Meeting – Member Photo Night
Our December Program gives members a chance to share 10 to 15 of their favorite photographs with fellow club members. Please go through your photographs and select some to share. You may bring your pictures on a CD or thumb drive. If possible make arrangements ahead of time so that digital images can be preloaded on to the computer and avoid any computer related difficulties at the meeting. Only members are invited to share photos. If you have any questions…
Find out more »Membership Meeting – New York Forests
New York Forests – An Endangered Species? by Jerry Michael The second-growth forests covering nearly two thirds of our state are facing many threats. Expected impacts from the Emerald Ash Borer and Hemlock Woolley Adelgid are well-understood and relatively near-term. The impacts from climate change are less well-understood, but long term. However, the most serious and pervasive threat is the inability of our most desirable native tree species to successfully reproduce themselves. We will discuss the origin of the…
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Chenango Valley State Park Field Trip
Club President, Robert Grajewski will lead this field trip. We will take a chance and see how a February trip to Chenango Valley State Park works out. Please remember to dress for the weather and wear good boots as some of the trails have wet areas. Meet at Oakdale Mall, pole #6 at the back of Sears at 8:00am. Volunteer drivers may be necessary. Please consider volunteering if you are able.
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FREE
Member Meeting – Mariana Crows
The Mariana Crow is a small, unique forest crow endemic to the islands of Guam and Rota in the Mariana Islands. This species has experienced a dramatic decline in the past 30-40 years. Andria Kroner will discuss their ecology, the factors that are contributing to their decline, and what is currently being done to reverse it. We will discuss Andria’s proposed behavioral research which may play a key role in understanding this intelligent species and improving the success of future reintroductions. Andria Kroner graduated with a bachelor’s…
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Porcupine Hike
BU Nature Preserve Hemlock Grove Saturday, February 25 -1:00pm Winter can be a dreary time, so plan to get out for a field trip! Hemlock groves are still green and are full of animal life. We will hike into the Binghamton University Nature Preserve to visit several hemlock groves. During the winter, these areas provide shelter and a haven from the deeper snows for many mammals and birds. Highlights often include deer beds, Red Squirrels, Great Horned Owls, Golden-Crowned Kinglets, Fisher…
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Member Meeting – Social Influences in Song Birds
Our guest speaker will be Justin Mann. Migratory songbirds can collect information about their environment or they can utilize social cues from other individuals to assess the quality of a habitat. To examine how migratory songbirds are influenced by social information, black-and-white warbler songs were broadcast at study sites where that species had not been observed during baseline bird surveys. Experiments were conducted in both low and high quality habitats. We will discuss how social information influences habitat selection in…
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Field Trip – Boland Pond & Local Rivers
Join us for a joint field trip to visit Boland Pond and our local rivers. It should be a good day to see a variety of waterfowl. Meet at Oakdale Mall, pole #6 at the back of Sears at 8:00am. Volunteer drivers may be necessary. Please consider volunteering if you are able.
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