Columbus Audubon is pleased to present our Tuesday, February 25 short program speakers, Matt Erickson and Peter Emmett as they share their experience with a special hummingbird and first meeting Allen Chartier as he expertly identified the bird in his hand. Then you will learn from Allen as he describes his passion and work with many hummingbird species. It will be a fun evening to learn more about the little and stunning dynamos - hummingbirds. Visit Allen's website to learn more about his work. http://www.hummingbirds.net/index.html We will have our OSU study skin bird quiz and it is all about hummingbirds. The winner will receive a bird quiz special prize. Be sure to get in the drawing for one of our two door prizes. I checked Allen's migration map this morning and the first Ruby-throated Hummingbird was reported in the pan-handle of Florida on Feb 21. Won't we all be excited to see them back in our gardens after this long winter!! Thank you Darlene Sillick and Nadya Bennett Columbus Audubon, co-program chair's Please join hummingbird expert Allen Chartier to learn about Great Lakes HummerNet - Hummingbird Research in the Great Lakes Region. Allen is Project Director of the Great Lakes HummerNet project and surely has banded more hummingbirds in the Midwest than anyone alive. 7:00 - 7:15 pm: CA Short Program: In November 2012, Delaware County resident Matt Erickson hosted a Rufous Hummingbird, a rare fall and winter visitor to Ohio, in his back yard. Tonight's main speaker, Allen Chartier, banded this bird, and Peter Emmett, wildlife photographer captured the event in pictures. Join Matt and Peter for their presentation, A Hummingbird for Thanksgiving. 7:15 - 7:30 pm: Social time and refreshments and bird quiz 7:30 - 9:00 pm: Main program, door prizes Columbus Audubon public programs are free and open to the public. All programs are held at the Grange Insurance Audubon Center at 505 West Whittier Street in the Scioto-Audubon Metro Park on the Whittier Peninsula. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]