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Hope to see you at the Columbus Audubon November 27 monthly program.
Members and guests are welcome!!  See you at 7pm to hear Jen Brumfield.



Please visit  http://www.columbusaudubon.org/  to learn more about the many
programs and field trips we offer!



Darlene Sillick

Columbus Audubon, program chair



    Jen eagerly combines her passions for extreme birding, field studies,
outdoor education and detailed scientific illustration into a truly "wild"
career. Over the years she has emerged as a nationally recognized birder. In
her program "The Presence/Presents of Birds," she will recount her
experiences in birding and field studies and relate how that has shaped her
life and career. This fully-illustrated presentation is deep, light-hearted,
funny, and poetic all wrapped in one. From the ridiculously grumpy faces of
owls, to the shameless preening habits of herons, to the goofy tactics of
birders in the field, Jen presents observations from her birding life in a
fast paced photofest on the big screen.
    Birds have captured Jen's soul since the minute age of two. From an
early age she eagerly ingested every field guide to birds that she could lay
hand on, and spent an insatiable amount of time in the field. Awe, respect
and fascination for birds and birding, and the natural world, led me to
travel widely at a young age, attending birding camps, field institutes, and
working for the Smithsonian Institute doing breeding bird surveys. From
Egypt to Ecuador, Canada to Belize, the Carolinas to California, Arizona to
Michigan and in between, the brilliance of birds, writing about birds,
illustrating them, and guiding tours is innate and lies deep within Jen's
blood.
    Jen is a Naturalist/Artist for Cleveland Metroparks, bird illustrator,
author of several natural history field guides, birding tour guide for
Tropical Birding and rep with Leica's Birding Optics Prostaff team.
Currently residing across the street from Edgewater State Park in Cleveland,
Ohio, she runs dozens of weekend specialized birding tours and field trips
throughout Northeast Ohio each year, through Local Patch Birding Tours.
Jen's illustration work, specifically featuring birds, can be found in a
number of publications, including the ABA's Birding magazine (cover artwork,
January 2010 issue) and on many birding organization and conference logos
and merchandise (World Series of Birding 2009 & 2010, Rio Grande Valley
Birding Festival 2010, The Biggest Week in American Birding 2010 & 2011). A
newly completed project, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History's 2012
calendar, features 12 full-color illustrations of rare and common species of
birds found within CMNH preserve areas in northern Ohio. Since 2005, Jen has
written and illustrated six field guides to the flora and fauna of Cleveland
Metroparks, designed and illustrated a childrens' coloring book, and
provided countless illustrations and logos for Cleveland Metroparks events
and publications.


7:00 - 7:15 pm: Our short program features Jen's latest artwork specifically
commissioned for Columbus Audubon! You don't want to miss the grand
unveiling.

Refreshments are available from 7:00 pm onward, and the main program kicks
off at 7:30.

Columbus Audubon public programs are held at the Grange Insurance Audubon
Center, 505 West Whittier Street in the Scioto-Audubon Metro Park on the
Whittier Peninsula.




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