Announcing ---- Join Adams County Travel & Visitors Bureau and the Adams County Amish Community for a daylong celebration of birds that features great speakers, vendors, and activities. Saturday March 5, 2011 Registration Fee $25 (children under 12 free) includes Saturday lunch and Sunday field trips Register soon -- attendance is limited. Eight Annual Adams County Amish Bird Symposium Agenda: 9:30 a.m. - Arrive, coffee and doughnuts 9:50 Welcome – Tom Cross, Adams County Travel & Visitors Bureau 10:00 The Big Year Greg Miller, Birder 10:45 Break 11:00 Birding Field Guides: The Beginning and The End. Jim Berry, Director, Roger Tory Peterson Institute. 12:00 Amish made Lunch 1:00 Living on the Wind: The Miracle of Bird Migration Scott Weidensaul, Author 1:45 Break 2:00 Close Encounters: Most Interesting and Frightening Encounters While Birding. Matthew Studebaker, Photographer 2:45 Break 3:00 The Goat, The Bad and The Shrubbery: Conservation Implications of Goat Grazing for Kirtland's Warbler Wintering Habitat in the Bahamas. Claire Larkin, Science Teacher, Mad River Middle School 3:30 Travel to Adams Lake State Park 3:45-4:15 Field Trip – Winter Water Birds of Adams Lake State Park And -- Sunday Guided Field Trips to the Edge of Appalachia Preserve available as part of your registration. A great value for a great event just in time to cure the worst case of cabin fever. Visit the Adams County Travel and Visitor's Bureau website for more information and a downloadable registration form: http://www.adamscountytravel.org/AdamsCountyAmishBirdSymposium.shtml ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]