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Upcoming Programs / Field Trips
During April and May, we’ll meet at Myers Park (11th Street and Pershing Blvd; south of the Racine Gateway Campus) to take advantage of spring migrants found along the shoreline, wetland vegetation, and the hillside. A few of us may arrive earlier at 6:30 to begin. The group usually departs by 8:15 A.M., while others may continue on to Colonial Park.
Bird Watching for Beginners Introductory Classes A two hour class will cover the following subjects: How to use and choose binoculars, basic Bird ID, when and where to find birds, birding guides/books. Please contact Helen Pugh or Keith Kennedy for details
Beginning Bird Watching Walks Experienced bird watchers will guide those less familiar in locating and identifying local and migrating birds. Please contact Helen Pugh or Keith Kennedy for more information. Warbler Walks:
Wednesday evenings, May 7th-May 21st
- 5:30 P.M. at Colonial Park Local Bird
Walks: Saturday, August 23rd - 9:00 A.M. at Chiwaukee Prairie Bird Song Walk: IDing common birds by their song (demo use of electronic media - mp3 players, etc.) Place and date to be announced.
Additional Bird Walks
Birding at River Bend Nature Center
Birding at Tabor Woods
Evening Warbler Walks at Colonial
Park Our annual evening hikes at Colonial Park are a great opportunity to experience the progression of spring migrants. From the early Yellow-rumped and Palm Warblers to the later arriving species like Canada Warblers, they’ll be plenty of eyes to help point out all the activity.
Thursday, May 1, 2008 Election of the Hoy Audubon Society officers and board members will take place this evening. We'll also view slides of migrant birds, with an emphasis on warblers.
Saturday, May 10, 2008 An annual day in the field to find and count individuals of all bird species at various locations throughout Racine County. Counts across the nation provide a snapshot of migration in May with their numbers
and distribution. You can bird your backyard, a local park or join others.
Just keep track of the time and mileage you spend and the total of each species
you see. Sign up for a count area at our May 1st meeting or contact Eric Howe
at
Thursday,
June 5, 2008
Other Upcoming State Events / Field Trips
The following events / field trips are not sponsored by
Hoy Audubon Society
"Avian Odyssey" Birding Contest
Avian Odyssey is a fun birding contest to benefit the
programs at the Wisconsin Humane Society, Wildlife Rehabilitation Center.
Prizes continue to be added including: Denali 10x42 binoculars from Eagle
Optics, gift subscriptions from Birder's World, Birds of Wisconsin Placemats
from WBCI and much more! Also on the way but not yet on the web site are
HIGH-END BINOCULARS AND SPOTTING SCOPE from Pentax!!
WISCONSIN SOCIETY FOR ORNITHOLOGY The Wisconsin Society for Ornithology (WSO) field trips are open for anyone to attend. For a listing of 2008 Field Trips, click here.
Organic and Fair Trade Coffee For Sale Organic and shade grown coffee provides invaluable habitat for our neotropical migrants as compared to that full sun monocultures which require chemicals. Coffee that is slow to grow and slow to ripen, as in shade grown coffee, better converts its starches to sugars and is richer in flavor. Fair trade certified coffee also guarantees the people working a fair wage and good working conditions. A 12oz. bag of ground or bean coffee is $10. A portion of the proceeds support Hoy Audubon. Available at our general meetings.
*** Hoy Audubon Society Chapter Membership Renewals *** Hoy Audubon Society offers “Chapter Supporter” memberships. PLEASE NOTE the expiration date by your mailing address. If it is past due or does not appear, please send in your Chapter Contribution to continue to receive our bi-monthly newsletter for information on current programs and fieldtrips AND to help support LOCAL projects in our area. Thanks! To continue your national membership and the Audubon Magazine subscription with National Audubon Society (NAS), please refer to information you receive from NAS. NAS only members will receive the Hoy Audubon Society newsletter twice a year. Chapter Supporter Dues are $12 per year.
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Purchase a gift membership in Hoy Audubon Enroll a friend or relative as a member of Hoy Audubon Society. Gift memberships are a wonderful way to help our club grow. Plus, they introduce others to the benefits of belonging to Hoy, such as field trips-both local and distant, informative programs at the monthly meetings, and social events, including the annual picnic and Holiday party.
On July 1, a new Federal Duck Stamp became available at post offices, national wildlife refuges, some national retail chain stores, and various sporting-goods stores nationwide. The Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp, which is the Duck Stamp's official name, has been a magnificent success story in its 70-year history. Started in the mid-1930s, to address a major crisis in bird conservation and wetland habitat loss, the stamp has been used as a highly effective funding mechanism for our refuge system, having accrued over $670 million and having been used to secure more than five million acres of valuable wetland habitat for the system. About $25 million a year is currently collected through yearly stamp sales. Proceeds from the $15 stamp go into the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund, used to purchase valuable wetlands for the National Wildlife Refuge System. (Indeed, about 98 percent of the revenue from the stamp goes through the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund to purchases these refuge wetlands.)
Wisconsin Bird Checklist The club has a limited
number of the new version of the checklist and of the checklist with migration
charts. The migration charts show , on a week by week basis, what the likelihood
is of seeing a particular species. These will be available free of charge to
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