Mark your calendar!
Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010 – BCAS Annual Meeting, 6:00pm at the Cedar Gap Farms Birdhouse! This is a brown bag event. BCAS will provide beverages. Come earlier if you wish to walk the trails or bird.
Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010 – Field Trip to Oakwood Trails. Meet at 7:30 AM. Oakwood Trails is on east side of Abilene State Living Center campus.
Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010 – BCAS Board Meeting at Mezamiz Coffee Shop – 7:00 PM. Come earlier if you want to eat.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 - Board Meeting 7:00pm at Mez Amiz Coffee Shop. Come earlier to order dinner. All interested members are invited.
Thursday, September 2, 2010 – BCAS Annual Meeting and election of officers. More information to follow at later date.
Tuesday May 11, 2010 – Board meeting 7pm at Mez miz Cafe.
Saturday May 29, 2010 – Field Trip to Dyess Air Force Base. Meet at 7:00am at the Dyess Visitors Center. Carpool if possible and RSVP with Dan if you plan to go on this trip. Email – bigcountryaudubon@live.com or call the hotline by May 20th, so that vans can be provided on base. Bring water and bug spray. We should see some very good birds out there.
Saturday June 19, 2010 – Field trip to Waste Water Treatment Plant. We will leave from Towne Crier at 7:30 am. Come earlier if you want to buy breakfast. We will carpool. Bring water and bug spray. Target birds: Dickcissel and Black-neck Stilt.
Saturday July 17, 2010 – Field trip to Abilene State Park including Abilene Lake–Meet at Laura’s Blind at 8:00 am; bird, then come back to the blind to work awhile. Contact a friend to car pool from Abilene if you wish. Bring water and bug spray.
Jan. 16 – Bera Fay
Jan. 23 – Dan
Jan 30 – The Wiggins
Feb. 6 – Kathy & Esta
Feb. 13 – Larry
Feb. 20 – Dan
Feb. 27 – Larry
Mar. 6 – Dan
These are all board members who have volunteered to perform this duty along with Harry who takes on the duties during the week. Board members are going to begin inviting the general membership to accompany them in the performance of these duties. Please try to help if you can.
A new schedule will be made at the next Board meeting Mar 9th. If you are interested in augmenting the usual suspects in clean the blind and filling the feeders, please send an email with the Saturday you would like to volunteer to BigCountryAudubon@live.com before the next Board meeting.
Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010 – Field trip to Waste Water Treatment Plant. We will depart from McDonald’s at 1201 N. Judge Ely at 8:00am. Come earlier if you would like to buy breakfast. Target birds are Black-necked Stilt, Wilson’s Phalarope and sandpipers. Bring water and a snack.
Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 – Membership meeting 7:00pm at the Rose Park Senior Center. John English, Nature photographer and Big Country Audubon member will present, “Wildlife, Nature & Scenic Photography”. Will cover techniques and equipment used as well as photographs shown as examples.
Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010 – Colorado City State Park. We will depart at 7:00am from Whataburger 4241 South 1st St. Come early if you would like to buy breakfast. Target birds are Bushtits, Verdin and Pyrrhuloxia. Bring water and snacks. We plan to eat lunch in Colorado City.
Thursday, Mar. 4, 2010 – Membership meeting 7:00pm at the Rose Park Senior Center. Dan Symonds, member of Big Country Audubon will present, “Birding Central Spain”.
Sat., Mar. 20, 2010 – Field Trip to Dyess Air Force Base. We will meet at the main gate visitors center for passes at 0730. You should have a picture ID. This will be a half day trip. Wild Turkey and Swainson’s Hawk will be the target birds. Please email BigCountryAudubon@live.com or call the hotline by March 18th, if you plan to attend.
Fri & Sat, April 9- 10, 2010 – Field trip to Ft. Hood. This may be an overnight trip with details to be worked out later. Look forward to this good trip! Target birds will be the Golden-cheeked Warbler and Black-capped Vireo.
Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009 – Field trip to Lake O.H. Ivie. We will leave from Burger King on Antilley Road promptly at 7:00am. This will be an all day trip, bring a sack lunch and water. We will try to stop at a frequented eatery for lunch. Target birds are returning waterfowl and Bald Eagles.
Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009 – This will be a half day field trip around Lake Ft. Phantom Hill. We will meet at Denny’s on I-20 & FM600 at 7:30am. Come earlier if you wish to eat breakfast. Bring snacks and water. Target birds will be Osprey, Vermillion Flycatcher and Canvasback.
Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009 – Christmas Party at 6:00pm at the Lueders Train Depot on the Ben Richey Boys Ranch at 501 Ben Richey Drive. Please bring your favorite party finger food. If you wish to exchange gifts, please bring one that doesn’t exceed a value of $10.
Eleanor (Ellie) Hamby will speak at our April meeting at 7:00 PM at the Rose Park Senior Activity Center.
Ellie Hamby will present Journey to Galapogos. Ellie has been photographing people and wildlife all over the world for many years. Her specialty is capturing the faces of people and particularly the Tonga’s of Southern Zambia. She has had solo exhibitions of her photography in the United States and Africa and does numerous speaking engagements concerning her photography. Her photos have been on the cover of magazines and she has had extensive newspaper coverage in Zambia and the USA of her photography.
A Marine Iguana suns himself on the beach. Photo by Ellie Hamby
Her late husband, Kelly, and she traveled to over 70 countries and lived in Zambia, Africa for six years. She always travels with her camera at her side, relying on her camera and her sense of capturing, through the lens. For more information and to see her photos of people, go to: http://www.photosbyellie.org/
Blue-footed Booby, by Ellie Hamby
The Galapagos Islands are beautiful islands and they are famed for their biodiversity and for their vast number of endemic species. You will enjoy Ellie’s pictures and stories, so please come and bring a friend!
On Saturday, April 4th, there will be a Star Party at the Abilene State Park sponsored by Big Country Astronomy and the Friends of Abilene State Park. The event will run from sunset to midnight: Come and go or come and stay! There will be several telescopes, plus monitors, to explore the skies. This will be part of the local celebration of the International Year of Astronomy.