201 Schedule
January - No Birder's night program.
February 18th Birder's Quiz Night: Test your bird id skills with photo puzzlers, trivia and bird songs. More details TBA
March 18th David Moen, Condors in Oregon: More details TBA
April 15th Birding by Ear Panel: Want to learn the tricks of telling a Macgillvray's warbler from a Nashville warbler? What about a Robin verses a Solitaire. Learn all this and more as a panel of local experts dissect bird songs of Central Oregon.
May 20th, Sue Anderson, Butterflying
June 17th, Paul Bannick: Noted nature photographer and author of "The Owl and the Woodpecker" brings us his presentation. Award-winning author and photographer Paul Bannick will take you on a visual
journey of 11 key North American habitats through the needs of North America's owl and woodpecker species. This stunning photographic study will be accompanied by field stories, and rich natural history
derived from thousands of hours in the field. His talk will look at the way owls and woodpeckers define and enrich their habitat and how their life-histories are intertwined. For more information on the speaker, see www.paulbannick.com
July 15th - Location Shevlin Park, 5 pm to dark. PICNIC and OPTICS, featuring Kevin Lair.
This is our annual pot luck picnic. We have a program this time as well as the picnic. Kevin Lair of Wild Birds unlimited will be joining us with an array of optical displays. Bring your scopes and bins and we can line up all of ours and his new models and do some comparisons while looking at Western Tanagers, Black-headed Grosbeaks and perhaps a Sapsucker or Lewis's Woodpecker. Our annual July picnic is a casual evening for some social time with each other so come when you can make it after work anytime from 5 pm. Shevlin Park is west of Bend. Take Newport to Shevlin Park Drive and continue west bound until you get to the park entrance. We will have a picnic area toward the front of the south section. Look for the line up of scopes to find the group.
August 19th - Nicole Nielsen-Pincus, ECAS board member, wildlife biologist and coordinator of Oregon's Vaux's Swift surveys spring and fall, will present the program on everything you ever wanted to know about Vaux's Swifts.
September 16th -Tim Bodeen, Refuge manager at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge will be our program. He has been busy for the past year gathering input from people for the comprehensive long term plan for Malheur. Come hear what is in the works for this great refuge, convenient to Central Oregonians and a favorite spot for most of us.
October 21 - Terry Steele is back! Terry is the fantastic story-telling photographer we all enjoyed last October and he is back with us again, this time with photos and tales of Birds of Africa. We will ask them to bring their photographic note cards which were a hit last time, good to buy for Christmas gifts and sending notes to birding friends. For more about Terry and his work, see the website www.terrysteelenaturephotography.com