Thanks for taking a moment to read this email request. Hopefully you will
respond YES! In your response, note your first and second choice of
location. It would be great to have at least 2 leaders at each location
with scopes.
CA/OOS is looking for some birders to be at various (hopefully) open water
areas on Sunday February 28th (~8-11:00) to help symposium attendees to ID
and learn about some central Ohio favorite watering sites. Some sites we
hope to include on Sunday Feb. 28 are:
- Hoover area
- Alum Creek area
- Grange/Green Lawn area -
- Watermark Quarries area and beyond -
- Big Island Wildlife Area
- Killdeer Plains Wildlife area/Upper Sandusky Res. -
- Blendon Woods Metro Park/Thoreau Lake -
- Delaware Wildlife area -
- Deer Creek State Park-
- Pickerington Ponds Metro Park (if not frozen) or Slate Run Metro Park
- lower dam area's for Griggs and O'Shaughnessy Dams
Weather will dictate our sites and of course more details will be coming
out. It would be great to have an OOS and a Columbus Audubon or local
birder present at the various locations. Please respond by the end of the
weekend if you have interest to help at one of these sites. Your
suggestions are welcomed and of course we hope you will be attending the
whole weekend of special speakers on waterfowl and event festivities. What
a great time to see other birding buddies and make some new friends and plan
for spring migration starting with the waterfowl!
Thank you for your consideration of time on Feb. 28 for a few hours that
morning!
Darlene Sillick & Nadya Bennett
Columbus Audubon
-----Original Message-----
From: Ohio birds [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jim
McCormac
Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 8:55 PM
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Subject: [Ohio-birds] Waterfowl Symposium!
Hi all,
On behalf of Columbus Audubon and the Ohio Ornithological Society, I want to
announce an upcoming symposium focusing on waterfowl. The location will be
the wonderful, brand spanking new Grange Audubon Center in downtown
Columbus, Ohio, hard on the bank of the mighty Scioto River. This is a
gorgeous building and perfectly suited for such an event.
The date of the main event is Saturday, February 27th. We've got a stellar
lineup of speakers, including:
Jesse Barry and Chris Wood of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, speaking on
The Secret Life of Ducks and Saving Waterfowl with e-bird data;
Paul Baicich on the importance of the Federal Duck Stamp and what it has
done to conserve waterfowl;
Keith Lott presenting data on the most comprehensive aerial survey of Lake
Erie waterbirds ever done, which just wrapped up and produced some
fascinating results;
Dr. Gwen Myers presenting the work that she has done with one of North
America's most fascinating ducks, the Spectacled Eider, which winters in one
of the most inhospitable places on earth, open leads in the otherwise frozen
Bering Sea;
And there'll be more!
A very special treat is our Saturday evening keynote speaker, all the way
from Iraq - Dr. Azzam Alwash, CEO of Nature Iraq, who will share a
fascinating program about his work to restore the marshlands of Iraq, and
their waterfowl. Alwash is fascinating and engaging - you won't want to miss
him, or any of the others!
Adding to the treats is a special Friday night performance, also at the
Grange Audubon Center, of the one and only Swinging Orangatangs, that wild
and wacky band straight out of Whipple, Ohio, fronted by Julie Zickefoose
and Bill Thompson. That'll be great fun, a good way to meet fellow birders
from here and there, hang out and have a great time. Be there or be square!
Weather permitting, we'll have topnotch birders posted at the best local
patches for finding waterfowl on Sunday. If the thaw is underway, as it
often is by late February, open water areas in Central Ohio can have lots of
fowl pushing on north.
For the complete scoop, and to register, visit the OOS website at:
http://www.ohiobirds.org/calendar/society_events/current/waterfowl.php
We also have a link to our partnering organization, Columbus Audubon, where
you can register online if you wish:
http://columbusaudubon.org/production/index.php?option=com_content
<http://columbusaudubon.org/production/index.php?option=com_content&view=art
icle&id=438&Itemid=200> &view=article&id=438&Itemid=200
Hope to see you there!
Jim McCormac
Jim McCormac
Columbus, Ohio
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