Events
Great Backyard Bird Count 2020
21th Annual Great Backyard Bird Count at Creasey Mahan Nature Preserve
Saturday, February 15, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
The Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) is a free, fun, and easy event that engages bird watchers of all ages in counting birds to create a real-time snapshot of bird populations. Participants are asked to count birds for as little as 15 minutes (or as long as they wish) on one or more days of the four-day event and report their sightings online at birdcount.org. Anyone can take part in the Great Backyard Bird Count, from beginning bird watchers to experts, and you can participate from your backyard, or anywhere in the world.
Each checklist submitted during the GBBC helps researchers at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society learn more about how birds are doing, and how to protect them and the environment we share. Last year, more than 160,000 participants submitted their bird observations online, creating the largest instantaneous snapshot of global bird populations ever recorded.
Members of the Louisville Audubon Society will help identify and count birds at Creasey Mahan Nature Preserve, 12501 Harmony Landing Road, Goshen, Kentucky. The event will start inside the heated Nature Center. Kathy Dennis will give a presentation, followed by a walk led by Barbara Woerner. Please dress in layers and wear comfortable shoes. Bring binoculars and lunch, if you’d like.
Saturday, February 15, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
The Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) is a free, fun, and easy event that engages bird watchers of all ages in counting birds to create a real-time snapshot of bird populations. Participants are asked to count birds for as little as 15 minutes (or as long as they wish) on one or more days of the four-day event and report their sightings online at birdcount.org. Anyone can take part in the Great Backyard Bird Count, from beginning bird watchers to experts, and you can participate from your backyard, or anywhere in the world.
Each checklist submitted during the GBBC helps researchers at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society learn more about how birds are doing, and how to protect them and the environment we share. Last year, more than 160,000 participants submitted their bird observations online, creating the largest instantaneous snapshot of global bird populations ever recorded.
Members of the Louisville Audubon Society will help identify and count birds at Creasey Mahan Nature Preserve, 12501 Harmony Landing Road, Goshen, Kentucky. The event will start inside the heated Nature Center. Kathy Dennis will give a presentation, followed by a walk led by Barbara Woerner. Please dress in layers and wear comfortable shoes. Bring binoculars and lunch, if you’d like.
Beckham Bird Club Annual Dinner March 10, 2020- What is a Warbler?
Scott Whittle
The Beckham Bird Club March Dinner Meeting is on Tuesday, March 10 at Big Spring Country Club, 5901 Dutchmans Lane, Louisville, KY. A cash bar will be available from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. when dinner will be served at 7:00 p.m. Our speaker this year is Scott Whittle who has over 25 years of experience as a professional photographer and educator. He has an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony, has held the New York State Big Year record, and has birded throughout the United States. LAS is a co-sponsor for this event and urges all of its members to attend.
Scott’s talk will be: What’s a Warbler? These small wonders, with their often bright colors and melodic songs are equally at home in the tropical rainforest as they are in the northernmost forests of Canada. In order to answer that, however, we’ll have to take a brief trip through time to see how people from cave-dwellers to Darwin have evolved in organizing the world, and how we do it today. Then we’ll take a look at these fascinating birds and discover why a warbler is, well, a warbler - and why any bird is that bird, and nothing else.
A vegetarian entrée will be on the menu but for any other dietary needs please indicate them on the reservation form. The price for the dinner has increased this year to $40 due to raise in the price of the dinner that Big Spring is charging and sales tax that we have not paid in the past as a non-profit club. The Kentucky legislature changed the law concerning non-profit organizations.There will be a field trip on Wednesday morning, March 11 at 9:00 a.m. at the Anchorage Trail for BBC members. Reservations are required. See the reservation form.
Scott’s talk will be: What’s a Warbler? These small wonders, with their often bright colors and melodic songs are equally at home in the tropical rainforest as they are in the northernmost forests of Canada. In order to answer that, however, we’ll have to take a brief trip through time to see how people from cave-dwellers to Darwin have evolved in organizing the world, and how we do it today. Then we’ll take a look at these fascinating birds and discover why a warbler is, well, a warbler - and why any bird is that bird, and nothing else.
A vegetarian entrée will be on the menu but for any other dietary needs please indicate them on the reservation form. The price for the dinner has increased this year to $40 due to raise in the price of the dinner that Big Spring is charging and sales tax that we have not paid in the past as a non-profit club. The Kentucky legislature changed the law concerning non-profit organizations.There will be a field trip on Wednesday morning, March 11 at 9:00 a.m. at the Anchorage Trail for BBC members. Reservations are required. See the reservation form.
Louisville Audubon Society’s Request for Grant Applications
In order to preserve birds and ecosystems for future generations, we must be willing to work toward a better future. Louisville Audubon provides grants for organizations working to conserve our local environment. We encourage applications from groups interested in birding, environmental conservation, restoration and education. The deadline is April 1, 2019.
The grant application form is available at www.LouisvilleAudubon.org, and the deadline is April 1, 2020. Grants will be awarded at the May 2020 annual meeting.
The grant application form is available at www.LouisvilleAudubon.org, and the deadline is April 1, 2020. Grants will be awarded at the May 2020 annual meeting.