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)
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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
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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 |