Please join us as we welcome back a very special guest, internationally-acclaimed birder and photographer Richard Crossley. Author of the acclaimed Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds as well as the Crossley ID Guide: Raptors and co-author of The Shorebird Guide, Richard last visited Columbus Audubon in early 2012. He is back by popular demand! At the Columbus Audubon program on Tuesday, March 24, Richard Crossley will be signing copies of his books. Through special arrangement with our friends at Wild Birds Unlimited in Columbus on Sawmill Rd, we will have plenty of copies of each for sale. Of course, if you already have copies, you are welcome to bring them along for Richard to sign. 7:00 - 7:15 pm: Short Program by Pete Precario, executive director at Midwest Biodiversity Institute, Inc. and Mick Micacchion MBI Biologist. Pete and Mick will discuss the development of a significant wetland at the Scioto Audubon Metro Park and MBI's proposed significant enhancement to the park. 7:15 - 7:30 pm: Refreshments and social time. Be sure to take the bird quiz and try for a special prize. Sign in and get a raffle ticket for one of 2 door prizes. 7:30 pm: Main Program by Richard Crossley, internationally acclaimed birder, photographer and award winning author of The Crossley ID Guide series. He is also co-founder of the global birding initiative Pledge to Fledge (www.pledgetofledge.org) and Race4Birds (www.race4birds.org). He has contributed to most major birding publications, is frequently heard on radio, and is a highly sought-after public speaker. Richard's topic is Past, Present and Future: Learning from Success and Failure to Change the Future, and he'll share tales of lessons learned while growing up in the wild British birding scene, from travels around the world, to living in Japan and settling down for good in his birding utopia Cape May, NJ. He'll also share his thoughts behind The Crossley ID Guide series. This Columbus Audubon programs is free and open to the public. Programs are held at the Grange Insurance Audubon Center 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.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]