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On Saturday, April 15, Jason Strickland will lead us at Newport News Park.  The park in mid-April usually provides a first look at several newly-arrived migrants, such as Prothonotary Warblers, Eastern Kingbirds, and Great Crested Flycatchers.  There should also be lingering winter residents, like Yellow-rumped Warblers, which will be molting into their breeding plumage.  We’ll meet at the back of the parking lot by the ranger station at 8 a.m.  No carpooling on this one – it’s a pretty short drive from Williamsburg. 

April 19: 6:00 p.m. (in person at the Williamsburg Library and via Zoom): Presentations by W&M students awarded a Bill Sheehan/Ruth Beck Ornithology Research Grant by the WBC.

Join us on Wednesday, April 19, at 6:00 p.m. for an exciting evening to hear firsthand the research results from our 2022-2023

College of William & Mary grant recipients. This will be a hybrid meeting (in-
person and via Zoom) at the Williamsburg Library theater on Scotland Street.

Three students will give presentations:

• Elizabeth Elliott, “Heat-induced Calling Affects 
  Embryonic Vibrations: Scrambled Eggs or Genine Feedback?”
• Joseph Di Liberto, “Full Metal Sparrow: Examining the Effects of Sublethal Lead on Ecologically-important Behaviors in a Commensal Songbird.”
• Moira Meehan, “Novel Approach to the Detection of Avian Window Collisions.”

It was a beautiful morning for our monthly bird walk at New Quarter Park! We were joined by members of the Middle Peninsula Bird Club. We saw 43 species of birds! Many of our summer residents have arrived. We saw or heard several Yellow-Throated Warblers, Blue-Gray Gnatcatchers, Northern Parulas, ovenbirds and a Summer Tanager. The ospreys are nesting on the platform by the Queens Lake Marina and one was sitting on the nest. We also got a great look at a very cooperative Great Egret! We were done with the walk before the storms moved in. It was great having the Middle Peninsula Bird club join usI Hope to join them someday for a bird walk on the Middle peninsula.

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