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Winter 2006 Programs and Field Trips

(Updated 3/20/06)

Eagles and Waterfowl on Lake Champlain

  • Date: Saturday Jan. 7
  • Time: 9 AM - noon
  • Location: Meet at Shelburne Bay Fishing Access
  • Contact: Chip Wright 985-3514.

Bear Necessities

  • Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2006
  • Time: 7 PM
  • Location: Hinesburg Public Library
  • Speaker: Tom Decker, Bear Biologist for State of Vermont Fish and Wildlife Dept.
  • Learn about the natural history of the Vermont Black Bear and how people and bears can live together to sustain this important wildlife population.
  • Contact: Caryn Gronvold 862-7772

Bobolinks and Savannah Sparrows of the Champlain Valley

  • Date: February 8, 2006
  • Time: 7 PM
  • Location: Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, VT
  • Speaker: Noah Perlut, PhD student at UVM, will give a talk/slide presentation about his research on grassland birds in the Champlain Valley
  • Contact: Shirley Johnson 878-4132

Snowshoe Walk at Muddy Brook Park

  • Date: Saturday, February 18, 2006
  • Time: 9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon
  • Location: Meet at the parking lot at Muddy Brook Park on River Cove Rd. at the Williston-South Burlington border. We will look for winter ducks and other winter birds.
  • Contact: Carl Runge 879-4490

Great Backyard Bird Count

  • Dates: February 17 - 20, 2006
  • Location: Your backyard
  • Contact: Cornell Lab of Ornithology
  • http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/
  • and/or Shirley Johnson, 878-4132

Tanzania Safari

  • Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2006
  • Time: 6:30 PM
  • Location: Pierson Library, Shelburne
  • Speaker: Bob Abell will show slides of the birds, animals, and people he saw on his trip to Tanzania.
  • Contact: Shirley Johnson, 878-4132
  • Free All welcome

Early Mud Season Birding in the Intervale

  • Date: Saturday, March 18, 2006
  • Time: 8:00 -11:00 AM
  • Location: Meet at the parking lot at the Rena Caulkins Trail.
  • Contact: Bruce MacPherson, 863-2436
  • Free All welcome