Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 06:23:43 -0800 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Lynette Fullerton Subject: PG Audobon/Pax Bird Club Mtg In-Reply-To: <000201c1c901$b5478cc0$6c774e0c@oemcomputer> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello Everyone! I hope you can make it to this month's PG Audobon Society/Patuxent Bird Club meeting. Details below. It should be a fantastic presentation, and right in time for butterfly season. See you there! ********************* Amazing Butterfly Migration 7:15 pm - Tuesday, March 12, 2002 College Park Airport Annex Have you ever been in wonder that small, seemingly fragile butterflies migrate thousands of miles to their wintering places each fall, and then fly thousands more to return each spring? Or of the many stages of their life cycle? Or of the variety, color and beauty of their patterns as you watched them alight on flowers? Join members of the Prince George's Audubon Society to learn more about these amazing winged creatures from Denise Gibbs. Ms. Gibbs has been a park naturalist with the Maryland- National Capital Park and Planning Commission for twenty-five years. During that time, she has created butterfly gardens, as well as butterfly meadows on park land and at nature centers throughout Montgomery County, and taught and/or lectured on creating habitat and gardens for butterflies, hummingbirds and songbirds for the Audubon Naturalist Society, Wild Bird Centers of America, and the Audubon Naturalist Society's "Living with Nature" series, among others. She is the instructor of the two-credit "Butterflies" course offered in the Natural History Field Studies Curriculum at the USDA Graduate School. Ms. Gibbs operates her own native plant nursery "Wings and Wildflowers" and consults for park agencies and individuals. She was a writer for a guide on butterfly gardening in all regions of the U.S. which was published by the N.Y. Botanic Garden in 1995, and is currently writing her own book, "A Guide to Butterfly Gardening in the National Capital Area." She was contracted to conduct a census of butterfly species for Great Falls National Park, VA, and the C&O Canal National Historical Park, MD. She also initiated a habitat enhancement project to provide host plants in a wetland area for Maryland's state butterfly, the Baltimore, to try to reestablish a viable colony of this increasingly rare butterfly. In addition, Ms. Gibbs served as a consultant for the popular "Wings of Fancy" live butterfly exhibit at Brookside Gardens Arboretum. In recent years, she has conducted research as part of a study for Dr. Lincoln Brower of Sweet Briar College, VA, to tag and monitor migrating Monarch butterflies during the fall migration at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, VA. On March 12, she will share the tagging process with us and, more importantly, what has been learned about butterflies and their migration through that study. This program is, as always, open free to all who are interested. Feel free to invite a friend and learn more about the life cycle and travels of butterflies. The College Park Airport Annex is a modular building on the left of the airport's Operations Building on Cpl. Frank Scott Drive off Paint Branch Parkway in College Park. For more information, call Maureen Blades at 301-262-5148. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================