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Member Picnic
Bring your family to our annual picnic! This year our annual picnic will be at the Port Dickinson Community Park. This location is easy to find and the pavilion is right next to the parking lot. Please bring your own table service and a dish to pass. Drinks (soda, water, juice) will be provided. If you don’t have a dish to pass, come anyway, as there is always plenty of good food. After dinner we will enjoy a walk next…
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Member Meeting – Collected Stories from 2019
Crowd favorite Rick Bunting will be back this September to share a variety of experiences and photos from his daily outings in the area and also from his time in Florida this year. Rick has a regular email post “the Roadside Naturalist” that many of us receive and his photos, stories, and insights into the wide variety of flora and fauna he observes never ceases to amaze me. Rick’s presentation is sure to be a great kickoff for our 2019-20…
Find out more »Member Harvest Dinner
TOPIC - HOW A CAREER IN CONSERVATION LED ME TO THE NY BREEDING BIRD ATLAS Our speaker has spent her career engaged in conservation throughout the Northeast and beyond. She will share her experiences working with birds and other wildlife, from seabirds to montane specialists, from Wyoming to New Zealand, and how this led her to her current role as the project coordinator of the upcoming Breeding Bird Atlas. After talking about some of the exciting research programs she has…
Find out more »Birds & Beers
Birds and Beers is a social gathering of birders of all abilities to get away from our computers and meet face to face. You can meet other bird minded people–maybe find a carpool buddy, ask about where to find target birds, ask a bird feeding question, share info on your favorite birding spot, share some digiscoping tips, etc. Come for all or just part of the time. It’s low key, informal and fun! Broome Birders is a subgroup of the…
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Member Meeting – Fish Crows
Guest speaker and Binghamton University graduate student Connor Loomis will talk about how Broome and Cayuga counties represent a unique area of North America in that they have 3 Corvus species living together in a shared landscape, including the Common Raven, the American Crow and the Fish Crow. The smallest of these species, the Fish Crow is a new arrival to the north, becoming established in the late 1970’s. They exist here, in one of their northernmost breeding colonies, in…
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Member Meeting – Member Photo Night
Our December Program gives club 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 pre-loaded on to the computer and avoid any computer related difficulties at the meeting. Only members are invited to share photos. If you have any…
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Member Meeting – Half – Earth
Guest speaker and club member, Julian Shepard, will discuss the Half-Earth project. How can we save half of Earth for nature? In the face of recent publicity about decimations of animal and plant populations, the idea of saving half of Earth for nature has recently been popularized by the great biologist/conservationist Edward Wilson. Guest speaker Julian Shepherd, PhD, will present some of the evidence for how this might be accomplished and illustrate it with some of his experiences locally and…
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Field Trip – Porcupine Hike
BU Nature Preserve Hemlock Grove Saturday, February 1 -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,…
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Member Meeting – Teri Franzen – From Desert to Shore
Illustrated with images and video, Teri will first take us through her multi-year quest for Bighorn rams which began in Wyoming in 2013. The journey continued until 2019 and an epic encounter amid the striking, red sandstone rock formations of Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada. Next, we’ll travel to the coastal shores of Long Island and visit the shorebird and seabirds that raise their families among the sand dunes. Teri Franzen is a wildlife conservation visual storyteller based…
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CANCELLED – Field Trip – Boland Pond & Local Rivers
As a precaution, to assist in protecting our membership and our community, we are cancelling this field trip. Since most waterfowl is viewed at a distance and the sharing of spotting scopes is typically required, we feel this precaution is in everyone's best interest. 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. Let's see what we can find as spring quickly…
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