Hi everyone, Just a reminder (and a request!) about Neil Hayward speaking tonight in Columbus about his record breaking ABA Big Year last year. Plus, we'll kick things off with a short program by Ohio's very own Dan Sanders (715 species in 2005) and Jay Lehman (733 species in 2013) about their Big Year efforts. Details are at http://www.columbusaudubon.org/index.php/14-announcements/announcements/1308-upcoming-program-tuesday-september-23 I'll be moderating some Q&A sessions, and whether or not you can join us, *I'd love to ask them some questions from all of you!* Feel free to email our questions to me at this address, or for those of you in the Birding Ohio facebook group, comment on this post <https://www.facebook.com/groups/BirdingOhio/permalink/693779540712546/>. Good birding, -Paul Hurtado On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 8:36 PM, Darlene Sillick < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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. > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > 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.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS > Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] > -- Paul J. 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