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At the September meeting, Susan Powell will show a PowerPoint presentation of the week long birding trip she and her husband Mike took earlier this year with Seig and Alice Kopinitz to Texas. Among the places they visited were Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge and South Padre Island.
Plan to join us on September 15th at 7:30 p.m. in Room 150, Millington Hall (#91 on map), on the W&M campus. Sara Lewis and Molly Nealer will be providing the refreshments as a thank you for the bird walks the club sponsors at New Quarter Park.
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Williamsburg Bird Club member Gil Frey took this photo of two barred owls. (Click the photo to see a larger image).
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Our field trip to Kiptopeke will be on Saturday, Sept 18. In you want to go, please meet at the Colony Square Shopping Center (on Jamestown Road) around 6:45 AM so carpools can be formed for a 7 AM departure. If you would rather meet on the Eastern Shore, plan on meeting the group around 8:30 at the picnic area at Kiptopeke State Park. The group will visit the hawkwatching platform, the hawk banding site, the songbird banding station and probably the Eastern Shore of Virginia National Wildlife Refuge. The group should leave from the Eastern Shore sometime around noon to 1:00 PM. It's recommended that you bring your cameras, since you will probably see some hawks and songbirds up close and personal.
Brian Taber will be the leader for this trip.
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Bird ID from Recycle Bin - Photos By Joe Piotrowski
This feature is only on the website and in the electronic version of The Flyer.
Click "Add new comment" to post your guesses.
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Location: Craney Island Disposal Area
Observation date: 8/21/10
Notes: Clear, calm. Outgoing tide. Humid at 88 degrees. Numerous unidentfied Calidris sp. Williamsburg Bird Club field trip.
Number of species: 52
Canada Goose 239
American Black Duck 3
Mallard 97
Northern Shoveler 89
Brown Pelican 31
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Beth Morgan sent these photos from her back yard. The Cooper's Hawk was in her birdbath
...until the Red-Tailed Hawk chased it off!
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The Williamsburg Bird Club and New Quarter Park co-sponsor bird walks at New Quarter Park, 1000 Lakeshead Dr., Williamsburg, twice a month — the second and fourth Saturdays. The second Saturdays we meet at 8 a.m; the fourth Saturdays we meet at 7 a.m. Meet in the parking lot near the park office. Participants can stay as long as they’d like. Generally, the leader will walk about two hours or so, but participants can peel off as they like. Walks are free and open to the public. You need not be a member to join us. Just show up! Google map.
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We had 20 eager birders this morning. Photo of some of you is attached.
Bill Williams, leader -- many thanks!
Joanne Andrews
George and Virginia Boyles
Shirley Devan
Geoff Giles
Tory Gussman
Ann Haupt
Sara Lewis
Jan Lockwood
Patty Maloney
Betty Peterson
Joe Piotrowski
Sharon Plocher
Charles Rend
George Rountree
Jennifer Trevino
Lois Ullman
Margaret Ware
 Immature Yellow-Crowned Night Heron (Photo by Jeanette Navia, taken from a long distance and cropped. The photo doesn't enlarge.)
Location: New Quarter Park
Observation date: 8/28/10
Notes: Incoming tide. Calm; upper 60s-mid 70s; clear to partly cloudy. One small Ring-necked Snake.
Number of species: 36
Mallard 1
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 6
Great Egret 4
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 2
Osprey 3
Clapper Rail 1
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Inge Curtis took some shots of birds on the August field trip to Craney Island.
American Avocets
Great Egret flying
See more photos in the Williamsburg Bird Club Gallery
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