STATE COLLEGE BIRD CLUB

2009 Fall Calendar for meetings and field trips

Further details of all 2009 field trips will be posted to the State College Bird Club listserv group.

Unless otherwise noted, all regular meetings will be held at 7:00 p.m. in the Meeting Room in the Community Building in the Foxdale Village Retirement Community.

Details of local field trips will be announced on the scbirdcl e-mail list.

September 13, 2009 (Sunday)
** Field Trip: Jack’s Mountain hawk watch for peak Broadwing Hawk migration. Meet in Boalsburg Military Museum parking lot at 9:30am.
Led by Debra Grim and Jennifer Lee.

September 20, 2009 (Sunday)
** Field Trip: Millbrook Marsh in State College.
Meet at the parking lot beside the barn at 7:30am.
Led by Nan Butkovitch

September 23, 2009 (Wednesday)
Regular Meeting
7:00 p.m. Foxdale Village Meeting Room
Program: Our guest speaker will be Sarah Pabian, who is a PSU graduate
student and the title of her presentation is "Snails for dinner? Effects of calcium availability on forest songbirds".

October 11, 2009 (Sunday)
** Field Trip: 2009 Big Sit at Bald Eagle State Park.
5:00 a.m. until sunset.
Led by Bob Snyder and Diane Bierly

October 28, 2009 (Wednesday)
Regular Meeting
7:00 p.m. Foxdale Village Meeting Room
Program: Our guest speaker will be Don Dearborn who is an Associate
Professor at Bucknell University and he will present a program titled "Mate
choice and defense against disease -- is inbreeding bad for birds'
immune function?".

November 8, 2009 (Sunday)
** Field Trip: Bald Eagle State Park for late migrants, waterfowl, Rusty Blackbirds, sparrows, winter hawks, Bald Eagles, and maybe the first Snow Bunting or Northern Shrike of the season. Meet at Westerly Parkway behind the Omega Bank at 7:15am to carpool, or meet at Milesburg McDonald's near I-80 at 8am.  We will bird until 11:30 am.
Co-leaders:  Bob Snyder and Debra Grim

November 18, 2009 (Wednesday)
Regular Meeting
7:00 p.m. Foxdale Village Meeting Room
Program: Our guest speaker will be Joe Verica who will talk about his birding trip to Taiwan.

December 9, 2009 (Wednesday)
7:00 p.m. Foxdale Village Meeting Room
Program: Our guest speaker will be Nick Kerlin who will talk about his birding trip to Costa Rica.

Christmas Bird Counts:

December 19, 2009 (Saturday) Culp (Sinking Valley) Christmas Bird Count
December 20, 2009 (Sunday) State College Christmas Bird Count
December 20, 2009 (Sunday) Huntingdon Christmas Bird Count
December 27, 2009 (Sunday) Raystown Christmas Bird Count
January 3, 2010 (Sunday) Bald Eagle State Park Christmas Bird Count

Previous schedules:
Spring 2009
Fall 2008
Spring 2008
Fall 2007
Spring 2007
Fall 2006