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Feb. 13, March 12
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Keep in touch with us on Facebook.
MEETING DATES:
(this month and next)
Feb. 13, March 12
(For information on place and time, see the Meetings page.)
RECENT BIRD ALERT(S):
The Lark Sparrow was seen by Andrew Clem (first time!) at the same place as others had seen it, on January 20 at 3:00 PM.
(.) A Lark Sparrow (off Churchmans Mill Rd along Brennans Road next to small pond), a Lincoln's Sparrow (White Hill Church of the Breathren Parking Lot), and a Dickcissel (Corner of Barterbrook and Ramsey Rds) were sighted during the Waynesboro CBC on Jan 2, 2012. Jo King, Peter Nebel, Dan Perkuchin, and Vic Laubach were the observers.
The LARK SPARROW continued on Breenemans Lane by the pond on January 3rd and was viewed by many people throughout the day.
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NOTE: The above bird alert was manually re-posted after a wave of spam attacks hit this Web site some time around mid-January. As a result, we will have to go back to requiring that anyone wishing to post a bird alert of their own must first register. For the time being, this Web site feature has been totally disabled. Stay tuned for further announcements.
(Augusta Bird Club members may submit rare bird sightings by using the Update page. For further information, or to report any unusual sightings, please contact the rare bird alert coordinator, Allen Larner.)
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There are still available copies of the new (third) edition of Birds of Augusta County, edited by YuLee Larner. Copies of the book will be on sale at the regular meetings of the Augusta Bird Club, or you may contact either YuLee Larner or Mary Vermeulen to purchase a copy. Please make your check for $15.75 (tax included) payable to "Augusta Bird Club Book Account."
The field trip to Highland County scheduled for tomorrow (January 21) has been postponed to Sunday (Jan 22).
Meeting points and times remain the same: Woodrow Wilson Parkway Holiday Inn (exit 225 off I-81) lower parking lot, at 8:00 AM. Be sure to bundle up (layers) and bring along snacks and beverage. Hot lunch will be in Monterey.
Snowy Owl, near Lake Andes*, South Dakota. Photo courtesy of John Clem.
* (corrected)
UPDATE: Closer to Virginia, a Snowy Owl has been by Vic Laubach and other local area birders seen near Shippensburg, PA, as well as a Prairie Falcon. Here is the location on google maps: http://g.co/maps/tskzu.
There have been a few minor changes to the layout of the Web site. Anyone who notices problems in how the pages appear, please contact the Web master, Andrew Clem.
PLEASE NOTE: The location of our meetings is changing as of January 2012. The new location is:
Covenant Presbyterian Church
2001 North Coalter St.
Staunton, VA
This is where North Coalter and North Augusta Streets come together, a few blocks north of Lee High School. The meetings will start at 7:00 P.M., as usual, in the Fellowship Hall.
At least 20 members of the Augusta Bird Club participated in the annual Christmas Bird Count, held on December 18 for the Staunton area. Allen Larner coordinated the effort, and club President Penny Warren hosted a party for the participants that evening. Tabulations of the totals are still underway, at last report. Crista Cabe coordinated the Waynesboro-area Christmas Bird Count on Monday, January 2.
Gabriel Mapel has a blog that covers his nearly-completed Junior Big Year. Good luck, Gabriel!
WEBMASTER'S NOTE: Augusta Bird Club members are welcome to post their own reports of any rare birds they happen to see, using the Update page. Doing so no longer requires prior registration, and additional measures have been taken to prevent the annoying deletion of previously-posted rare bird alerts by computer "spam-bots." Hopefully, that will solve the problem. Rare bird alerts appear in the left column of the home page.
by Andrew Clem
Last news update: 20 Jan 2012
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Last update:
25 Jan 2012
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