Bird Study Group
Saw-whet Owl
Photo: Barry Cherriere
Upcoming Meetings
The dates for the 2009/2010 Bird Study Group Meetings are as follows.
Meetings start at 7:30 PM. Visitors are always welcome.
2009/2010:
Monday, September, 14, 2009: Fatal Light Awareness Program, Michael
Mesure
Monday, October 19, 2009: Chimney Swift Watch Program, Elisabeth
van Stam
Monday, November 16, 2009: Birds of Africa, Sandy Darling
Monday, December 7, 2009: Social and Marketplace / Quiz
Monday, January 18, 2010: Piping Plovers, Dennis and Gwen Lewington
Monday, February 15, 2010: Birds of the Arctic - Rick Ludkin
Monday, March 22, 2010: How Ontario Forestry Practices Incorporate Bird Conservation - Chris Street
Monday, April 19, 2010: Member's Night
Next Bird Study Group Meeting:
The Bird Study Group meetings return in the Fall of 2010. Stay tuned!
Contact
George Holland, 905-945-3962
Location
NEW Location!
Burlington Senior's Centre
2285 New Street, Burlington
Auditorium B
Lots of free parking near the New Central Library.
Directions
Click HERE for a Google Map to the Burlington Senior's Centre
Background
The Bird Study Group meetings are normally held on the third Monday of the month.
Bird Study Group meetings normally feature reports of recent sightings, news of birding events, an Identification session focussing on birds which can be difficult to identify in the field, and a main program whose subject can be anything from a talk on bird skins to a slide show on the birds of a distant place.
If you are a beginning birder, come out to learn more about birds. If you are an experienced birder, come out to share your knowledge and enthusiasm.
The Hamilton Birding Hotline number is (905) 381-0329.
Piping Plovers at Sauble Beach
Above left: Tom Crooks at
the November 2007 Bird Study Group meeting, thanking Dennis and Gwen
Lewington for their recounting of the exciting nesting of Piping Plovers
at Sauble Beach this past spring, the first in 35 years.
Above right: Adult Piping Plover (Click on photos for
a larger image.)
Photos: Jim Heslop
Celebrating 20 Years !
Above left: members of the
original Bird Study Group who were present at the December 2006 meeting
to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the group. Pictured from left to
right (taken as a single row): Hazel Broker, Jim Cram, Kevin McLaughlin,
Doris Rundle, Bob Curry, Gwen Lewington, Dennis Lewington, George Naylor,
Barry Cherriere, Arlene McCaw, Rob Dobos, Frank Morley.
Above right: Mike Rowlands presents Arlene McCaw with
a copy of his recent compilation of Meeting Summaries of the first 20
years of the Bird Study Group. (Click on photos for a larger image.)
In 2006 HNC's Bird Study Group celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. Bruce Duncan, inspiration of so many good things within our community, called the first meeting in the fall of 1986, and led the group for many years.
Obviously, this interest of the members of the club is a long-standing and passionate one. Lois Evans, the second leader of the study group, reminds us in her chapter in Birds of Hamilton that the HNC began as the Bird Protection Society. Today, the Bird Study meetings gather an average of a hundred members each month, as we share our interest in Hamilton birds, explore world birding, and most importantly, study the work of the ornithological community of Ontario.
The people in the photo (above left) were present at the first meetings. They have been involved in many of the projects Hamilton birders undertake, from hacking Bald Eagles and Peregrine Falcons, to maintaining Eastern Bluebird trails on the natural lands of the RBG.
In recent years, the program has been led first by George Drought, then Glenda Slessor, followed by Arlene McCaw and today by George Holland. With the dedicated group of HNC members, Mike Rowlands, Tom Crooks, Frank Morley, Cheryl Edgecombe and Arlene McCaw, who plan and run the meetings, the Bird Study Group continues to meet the goals and vision of its founder.
- Photos and text courtesy of Glenda Slessor
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