Greetings,

The Kent County Bird Club will kick off its 2005-2006 program schedule on Tuesday, 13 September at 7:30 PM. Our speaker for the meeting will be Dr. Ross Hawkins, a founder of The Hummingbird Society of Newark, Delaware. Not surprisingly, his topic is: "Rubies, Emeralds, Sapphires and Other Hummingbird Gems." There are sure to be some spectacular slides and informative tales about our smallest birds. 

Our regular meetings are held in Wesley Hall, at the Heron Point retirement community at the end of East Campus Ave in Chestertown. East Campus Ave is the light on Washington Ave (MD-213) at the south edge of the Washington College campus. If headed north, turn right, if headed south, turn left off of Washington Ave. Follow East Campus Ave to the Heron Point community and bear right on Sassafras Dr, taking that to the large parking lot at the end. Wesley Hall is upstairs in the building on your right as you enter the parking area; enter through the large portico.

We also have two events scheduled for the coming weekend. On Saturday, 17 September, we will be doing a local walk in the Heron Point area for fall migrants, meeting in the Heron Point parking lot at 8:30 AM. 

Sunday, 18 September is the annual Kent County Fall Count, wherein we attempt to count as many birds as possible over as much of the county as we have birder-power to cover. Volunteers are needed for field parties or for your own neighborhood. Contact us using the information below if you would like to help for all or part of the day.

Here's to a successful year for the Kent County Bird Club,

Nancy Martin & Walter Ellison

23460 Clarissa Road
Chestertown, MD 21620
phone: 410-778-9568
e-mail: 

"A person who is looking for something doesn't travel very fast" - E. B. White (in "Stuart Little")

"Are there *ever* enough birds?" - Connie Hagar as quoted by Edwin Way Teale in "Wandering through Winter"