STATE COLLEGE BIRD CLUB
2012 Spring Calendar for meetings and field trips
Further details of all 2012 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.
On February 22, 2012 the State College Bird Club will have a 70th
Anniversary Dinner at 5:30 pm, in the Foxdale Village auditorium.
Details were posted to the scbirdcl e-mail
list (otherwise, please contact the President
of the Bird Club).
Regular Meetings:
January 25, 2012 (Wednesday)
Regular Meeting
7:00 p.m. Foxdale Village Meeting Room
Program: Our guest speaker will be Nick Bolgiano who will give a program
called "Birds that I have seen in the West"
February 22, 2012 (Wednesday)
Regular Meeting (
following the dinner celebrating the 70th year of the
State College Bird Club - see note above)
7:00 p.m. Foxdale Village Meeting Room
Program: Our guest speaker will be Larry Ramsey who will give a program
on
his trip to Papua New Guinea.
M
arch 28, 2012 (Wednesday)
Regular Meeting
7:00 p.m. Foxdale Village Meeting Room
Program: Our guest speaker will be Don Bryant - who will give a program
on
his trip to Australia and South Africa.
April 25, 2012 (Wednesday)
Regular Meeting
7:00 p.m. Foxdale Village Meeting Room
Program: Our guest speaker will be Drew Weber who is a graduate student
at
Penn State and he will give a program on his graduate research.
May 23, 2012 (Wednesday)
Regular Meeting
6:00 p.m. Greenwood furnace
Program: Pot luck Dinner
Winter and Spring Field
Trips:
Check here for details closer
to the date. More details will also be posted in
the listserv group. Unless otherwise specified, all levels of experience are welcome.
February 25 (Saturday)
PSU experimental forest area near Masseyburg in Stone valley Huntingdon County:
Bird walk in the winter woods. Start at about 8:00. More details later.
Leader: Greg Grove
March 3 or 10 (Saturday)
Middle Creek: Snow Geese and waterfowl.
Leader: Joe Verica
March 25th (Sunday)
Bald Eagle State Park: Search for waterfowl.
Leader: Bob Snyder
April 6, 13, 20, 27, May 4, 11 (Fridays)
Arboretum Bird Walk: bird walks in
the
Arboretum at Penn State. Start at 7:30 AM and end at 9:00 AM.
Meet at the
Arboretum Pavilion parking area (off Park Avenue across from Law
School).
Leaders: Nancy
Ellen Kiernan and Alex Lamoreaux
April 28 (Saturday)
Huntingdon County: Search for early migrants along the Lower Trail. Details will be posted on the SCBIRDCL listserv.
Leader: Ian Gardner
Other Birding Events
April 4, 11, 18, 25, and May 2, 9, 16 (Wednesday 7 to 8:30 am)
Migration Morning at Shaver's Creek (free and open to all)
Leader: Doug Wentzel
May 4 (Friday), 7 pm to May 5 (Saturday), 7 pm
Birding Cup, Shaver's Creek
May 18-20 (Fri-Sun) 2012
Annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Society of Ornithology
Spring Bird Banding dates at the Penn State Arboretum
Previous schedules:
Spring 2011
Fall 2011
Spring 2010
Fall 2010
Spring 2009
Fall 2009
Spring 2008
Fall 2008
Spring 2007
Fall 2007
Spring 2006
Fall 2006
Spring 2005
Fall 2005