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September Events
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 […]
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Spring 2010 Events
Thursday, April 1, 2010 – Membership meeting 7:00pm at the Rose Park Senior Center. Park Administrator Okie Okerstrom or another staff member will treat us to a presentation on the importance of Abilene State Park to the surrounding communities. Fri & Sat, April 9- 10, 2010 – Field trip to Ft. Hood. This will be […]
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Membership Meeting April 1st, 7pm
Our meeting will be at the Rose Park Senior Center at 7pm. Don’t forget the our meeting room is changed to the room across the hall by the bathrooms. The subject of our meeting will be, the importance of Abilene State Park to the surrounding communities. It will be presented by a member of the […]
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Field Trip to Dyess AFB – CANCELLED
Sorry Folks, Our field trip to Dyess tomorrow is cancelled due to expected weather conditions. We will try to reshedule.
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2010 GBBC News Release
Join the Great Backyard Bird Count February 12-15, 2010 New York, NY and Ithaca, NY—Bird watchers coast to coast are invited to take part in the 13th annual Great Backyard Bird Count, Friday, February 12, through Monday, February 15, 2010. Participants in the free event will join tens of thousands of volunteers counting birds in their […]
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Haskell Wild Goose Chase
“WGC”–October 31,2009 On a chilly, calm Saturday morning, eleven birders gathered at Towne Crier. Most had breakfast before traveling to Haskell County to view the geese at and coming to Winchester Lake. Since the lake is on private property, we birded from a gravel read near by. This made a good place to set Joe’s […]
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TBS sends Randy plaques in memory of Laura
In 1995 Ben Black built four Bluebird Boxes to be put up at Oakwood Trails. Among those who attached boxes to poles, dug holes for the poles and set them were Lorie Black, Laura Packer, Charlene and Tom Wheeler. Through the years, all of these have continued to have a keen interest in the Bluebirds […]
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Blind Sightings
Big Country Audubon is pleased to announce that our bird blind at the Abilene State Park is now ready for birders, wildlife watchers, and birds! In September, 2007, the blind was delivered to the State Park. Over the next few months our eager volunteers painted the inside, hung feeders, and constructed a water feature. Immediately […]
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Christmas Social, 2007
Big Country Audubon had another wonderful Christmas Social this past December, 2007. And like the 2006 social, I got a little inventive on the captions. Thanks to everyone for making 2007 a great year! Pictures are up at Christmas Social 2007. And, did you know Tom, Toni, Carolyn, and WK found THE rarest bird ever […]
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Annual Meeting a Success!
Nothing brings a group together like humor. Upon popular demand the Unusual Bird Sightings presentation has been reproduced. Any resemblance to actual persons is strictly accidental. No birds were harmed in the making of this presentation; I don’t know about the people. If you don’t see your likeness here; it is only a matter of […]