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BCAS Annual Meeting and Auction, 2007
Please join us for a fun evening of food, fellowship, and silent auction, Thursday evening, September 6 at the Lodge at Oakwood Trails. We’ll eat about 6:30 but come early if you’d like to bird the area. We’re going casual again this year; bring your own food (sandwiches was the norm last year). Drinks, dessert […]
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May Days to Remember
Thursday, May 3, 2007 Big Country Audubon’s annual Spring Social at Cedar Gap Farm, 6 p.m. Please join us for a fun evening of food, birds, and birders! BCAS will provide the brisket and drinks; all you need to add is two side dishes such as vegetable, salad, bread or dessert. No program; we’re watching […]
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Bobby Harrison to Speak on Rediscovering the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, April 11, 2007 — Noon, ACU Campus, Hart Auditorium
The Ivory-billed Woodpecker was last sighted in 1944 and was thought to be extinct. However in 2004 this species was sighted again causing worldwide excitement. Bobby Harrison, associate professor of art and photography at Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama, is one of three people to rediscover the Ivory-bill in Arkansas. Please join us to hear […]
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San Angelo Field Trip, March 17, 2007
I finally remembered to take pictures of our club field trip to San Angelo. (I was getting tired of staring at Christmas pictures). Two highlights of the day: watching a Great Blue Heron Rookery at Lake Nasworthy, and eating hamburgers at San Angelo State Park compliments of Leon and Bera. The heron pictures are in […]
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David Blankinship to speak at General Meeting, Thursday, February 1, 2007
David Blankinship has acquired many titles in his distinguished career. Researcher, biologist, ornithologist, game warden, conservationist, naturalist, preservationist, birder, bird bander, to name a few. Most of David’s career involved working with the Whooping Crane Recovery Project with National Audubon. The Whooping Crane is one of the rarest North American birds. Once fairly widespread on […]
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Rescheduled: Field Trip to Jones County and Lake Hamlin, January 27, 2007
Since weather did not cooperate on the 20th, we rescheduled this field trip for the 27th. Same instructions: we’ll meet at Denny’s on FM 600 and I-20. We will leave at 7:30 a.m. from Denny’s so if you want breakfast, come early enough to order and eat. Last year’s Jones County field trip produced Burrowing […]
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Merry Christmas
Thanks to everyone for making our Christmas gathering fun, festive, surprising, and tasty! The food was delicious, the entertainment informative, and the surprise unexpected. I enjoyed seeing everyone; you are a special group of friends that I can share my enthusiastic joy of birding with. Thank You All for the goodies you brought. A big […]
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Christmas Social, December 7, 2006
Please join us for a Christmas gathering, Thursday, December 7 at 7 p.m. at the Rose Park Senior Center at the corner of South 7th and Barrow. Bring your favorite finger food (chips, dip, sandwiches, cookies, or whatever goodie can be eaten with the fingers) and a wrapped bird-related under-ten-dollar Christmas gift. We’ll indulge our […]
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Field Trip to Lake Baird, December 2, 2006
Join us this Saturday, December 2 for a field trip to Lake Baird in Callahan County, Texas. We will meet at the Towne Crier Restaurant at 818 E. Hwy. 80. We will leave at 7:30 a.m. The restaurant serves breakfast so if you’re hungry come early for breakfast and carpooling. The target birds for this […]
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Field Trip to Abilene State Park – Nov. 11, 2006
We will leave from the Burger King at 1633 Antilley Road at 7:45 a.m. If you want breakfast, come early. Several of us will be there early for breakfast, 7:10ish. Check out the past weekend’s sightings to see what to expect. Target birds are Golden-crowned Kinglet, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Hermit Thrush, Brown Creeper, Spotted Towhee, White-crowned […]