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IRVINE NATURE CENTER PROGRAMS, SPRING 2010

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Norm Saunders

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Norm Saunders

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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:35:38 -0500

IRVINE NATURE CENTER --BIRDING PROGRAMS for March and April 2010

11201 Garrison Forest Road

Owings Mills, MD 21117

 

to register: call 443-738-9224, email  or register on-site

 

 

Saturday 3/13  Woodcock Walk

Local birder, Keith Costley, will lead a woodcock walk on Irvine's new 116 acre property to search for male woodcocks performing their courtship displays, or "sky dance", as Aldo Leopold described it.

 

Leader: Keith Costley

Fee: $6 members, $10 non-memebers

Time: 4:30-7:30 pm

Ages: Adult (16 and up)

Registration deadline: 3/12

 

Sunday 3/14  On Silent Wings-Maryland's Owls

Join local wildlife rehabilitator, Kathy Woods, for a fun and informative talk about owls and their natural history. Learn about the different owls that live in Maryland, how to identify them, and how they manage to hunt so well at night. Kathy will also introduce everyone to a few live owls, as well.

 

Leader: Kathy Woods

Fee: $6 members, $10 non-members

Time: 12:00-1:30 pm

Ages: 7 & up

 

Sunday 3/14  Baby Owl's Rescue-Meet the Author!

Children's author and veteran journalist, Jennifer Keats Curtis, has written a book to teach children about important ecological issues and what they can do to help and to bring them closer to wildlife. Learn how local wildlife rehabilitator, Kathy Woods, inspired her to write her new book, Baby Owl's Rescue.

 

Leader: Jennifer Keats Curtis

Time: 1:30-2:30 pm

Ages: All

 

Register for both "On Silent Wings-Maryland's Owls" and "Baby Owl's Rescue" for a discounted price of $9 members, $15 non-members

 

 

Thursday 3/18  Nesting Bluebirds for Bluebird Trail Monitors and Backyard Bluebird Enthusiasts

 

Katharine Patterson has been studying bluebirds for 15 years, both on her farm and as a bluebird trail monitor for nine years. Katharine's presentation will include digiscoped photographs of bluebirds on her property, history of the "Bluebird Movement", natural history of the Eastern Bluebird, nest box design, predators and competitors, trouble shooting, gardening for wildlife and the importance of regular monitoring. Participants will receive several resource handouts and construction plans for an Eastern Bluebird nest box.

 

Fee: $6 members, $10 non-members

Time: 7:00-8:30 pm

Age: Adult

Registration deadline: 3/17

 

Tuesday 4/13  Irvine Institute: Introduction to Avian Biology and Ecology  6 sessions

Dr. Mark Johnson, senior Wildlife Toxicologist with the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventative Medicine in Aberdeen, MD, will teach this integrative course designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to bird life and associated field study techniques for beginning and intermediate avian enthusiasts. Lectures and field exercises include species identification, field techniques, anatomical structure and function, taxonomy, distribution, ecology and conservation. 

 

Instructor: Dr. Mark Johnson

Fee: $130 members, $145 non-members

Dates: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 4/13-22, 6:30-8:30 pm; Saturday, 4/17, 8:00 am-12:00 pm (at Eden Mill) and Saturday, 4/24, 8:00 am-3:00 pm (carpool to Delaware shore)

 

 

 

 

 


----- Original Message -----
From: "Norm Saunders" <>
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Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 10:21:42 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: RE: subscription to MDOspey

Katharine,

 

MDOsprey is limited to 600 subscribers, which it appears to have just now.  People do drop off fairly regularly so I would suggest that you continue to try to subscribe.   Until you are successful, you can read all of the messages posted to MDOsprey at the archives:

 

http://home.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A0=MDOSPREY

 

If I may be of further assistance, don't hesitate to get in touch.  If you have material you would like me to post for you on MDOsprey, send it along, but plese understand that Listserv’s are ascii-based systems and do not support pictures or other graphics.

 

Norm Saunders

Owner, MDOsprey LISTSERV



 

 

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Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 9:35 AM
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Subject: subscription to MDOspey

 

I have been told that MDOsprey has reached maximum number of subscribers. I would like to post valuable birding information from Irvine Nature Center in Owings Mills, MD. Please let me know if this is possible.

 

Thank you,

Katharine Patterson

 

Trustee, volunteer naturalist

Irvine Nature Center

11201 Garrison Forest Road

Owings Mills, MD 21117

410-440-9333