Have you ever wanted to know how to keep lists or how to plan a Big Year?
Tuesday, September 23rd, you can learn what birders are thinking about as
they go in quest of becoming an elite member of the over 700 ABA club and a
possible ABA Big Year record.



Columbus Audubon and Grange Insurance Audubon Club Members and guests are
welcome to join us next Tuesday evening. We hope to see you before 7pm for a
fun evening filled with lots of activities and social time for birders and
nature lovers.





In 2013 Boston birder Neil Hayward suffered a devastating bout of the Big
Year. The temporary insanity resulted in almost 250,000 miles of travel,
taking him to the remote corners of this continent: Barrow in the frozen
north; the Dry Tortugas, dangling off the Florida Keys to the south;
Newfoundland, poking out to the east; and tiny Adak, adrift in the volcanic
Aleutian chain of the west. And a place they call New Jersey. By year's end,
he'd netted some 750 species of bird and quite possibly set a new ABA Big
Year record. Please join us as Neil takes a Big Year, applies cutting-edge
high pressure technology, and condenses it into a Big Hour! You will hear
about exotic birds, remote places, volcanoes, polar bears, Aleutian plumbing
and more! Government health warning: Big Years can be contagious. High
pressure technology not previously tested.

Neil Hayward grew up near Oxford, England, where, at a young age, he first
became obsessed with birds. After a PhD in genetics at Cambridge University
he moved (permanently) to the US in 2005 to head up the US operations of the
biotechnology company Abcam. He left in 2011 to pursue a consulting career
as owner of Cambridge Blue Consulting. Neil is currently the Field Trip
Coordinator and a director of the Brookline Bird Club. He lives in Cambridge
with his girlfriend Gerri and two cats, Sally and Khiva.

7:00 - 7:15 pm: Our very own Big Year birders, Dan Sanders (715 species in
2005) and Jay Lehman (733 species in 2013), will answer questions about
their Big Year experience. Prepare to be amazed...!  Paul Hurtado will
facilitate the Q and A during the short program.

7:15 - 7:30 pm: social time, light refreshments, test your birding skills at
the Bird Quiz table and a chance to win a prize, meet the OYBC students
preparing for their Oct 4 Big Sit at Sawmill Wetlands from 8-12.  Plan to
buy your tickets for the Nov 1 George Archibald, My Life with Cranes program
held 4-6pm at GIAC.  Visit friends at GIAC for the Columbus Audubon monthly
program. Be sure to sign in and get your ticket for one of 2 door prizes.
Lots more is going on!!!

7:30 pm: Main program: Columbus Audubon announcements and our speaker Neil
Hayward who holds the ABA Big Year record for 750 species in 2013

Columbus Audubon programs are free and open to the public. All programs are
held at the Grange Insurance Audubon Center 505 West Whittier Street in the
Scioto-Audubon Metro Park on the Whittier Peninsula. There is a fee for our
special Saturday Nov 1 program with George Archibald and tickets can be
purchased on our website www.columbusaudubon.org  after the Sept 23 meeting.




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