All (members and any and all guests) are welcome to attend the Columbus Audubon program Tuesday, September 25. Location: The Grange Insurance Audubon Center 505 W. Whittier St, Columbus Ohio 43215 For more information visit: www.columbusaudubon.org We start at 7pm with the Columbus Audubon Short Program by Amanda Conover, Coordinator for the Ohio Bird Conservation Initiative and she will talk about the Lights Out Columbus program. At 7:15 we will have a 15 minute break then our evening program begins: CA Main Program at 7:30pm - Greg Miller - Life After the Big Year Movie Release. We are pleased that our own northeast Ohio Greg Miller will again kick off our 2012-13 season of Columbus Audubon programs at GIAC. Greg will talk about life after "The Big Year" and talk about his many birding adventures both in the field and behind a podium since the film came out. Greg was one of the three stars in the 2004 book The Big Year by Mark Obmasick and saw over 700 species in 1998. In a recent interview, Greg was asked: Do you feel that technology in today's world makes doing a Big Year easier? "I did my big year without a laptop, a cell phone, or a GPS unit. There were no blogs, no facebook, and no tweets then either. All of these things would have helped stay up-to-date with the latest information available. There is also more readily available info on bird sightings on the Internet now too" Greg will speak about how the interest in bird watching across the country has increased. He talks from the heart and that makes it even better! Can't wait to hear how the movie made some changes in Greg's life!! This years' Columbus Audubon program line-up includes: Oct 23, 2012 Dick Tuttle, sharing his conservation work with American Kestrel Conservation Nov 27, 2012 Jen Brumfield, bird illustrator and tour guide and respected for her amazing birding skills Jan 22, 2013 Andy Jones, Ph. D. Cleveland Natural History Ornithology director Feb 26, 2013 Jason Martin, Cornell Lab Nestwatch Director March 26, 2013 Julie Zickefoose, artist and writer extraordinaire!!! April 23, 2013 Kim Kaufmann, BSBO, OYBC, Biggest Week and the list goes on. May 28, 2013 Mary Maloney, director at The OSU Chadwick Arboretum ______________________________________________________________________ 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]