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Title	The Spoonbill, Vol. 8, No. 3, July 1959
Alternative Title	The Spoonbill, Vol. VIII, No. 3, July 1959
Publisher	Outdoor Nature Club
Date	July 1959
Subject.Topical (LCSH)	Ornithology
Subject.Geographic (TGN)	Houston, Texas
Genre (AAT)	newsletters periodicals
Language	English
Type (DCMI)	Text
Original Item Location	ID 2007-023, Box 9, Folder 11
ArchivesSpace URI	/repositories/2/archival_objects/9844
Original Collection	Outdoor Nature Club Records
Digital Collection	Outdoor Nature Club Newsletters
Digital Collection URL	http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/2007_023
Repository	Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Repository URL	http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections/
Use and Reproduction	No Copyright - United States
File Name	index.cpd

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Transcript	VOLUME VIII NO. 3 JULY 1959 *** ** ***** • RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD • •In Spring the ruby-throated hummingbird leaves* •its winter quarters, keeping pace as the sea- * •son advances with the opening of its favorite * •flowers. The bird's preference for some of • •these is so marked that it seems to regulate • •its migration so as to arrive on the very day • •of their blossoming. In the Boston Mountains • •of Arkansas it is said that the blossoming of * •the dwarf buckeye and the arrival of the hum- • •mers was found to be coincident. For it is * •upon the flowers of this shrub that the ruby- • •throat finds most of its subsistence for the * •first two weeks of its arrival. • *** * **** PUBLISHED BY THE ORNITHOLOGY GROUP. OUTDOOR HATURE CLUB, HOUSTOH, TEXAS FORTHCOMING ACTIVITIES July 19 Regular monthly ORNITHOLOGY GROUP FIELD TRIP to Galveston on Sunday, .July" 19 - that July 17 was a boo-boo and please excuse me - Meet at the Humble Station in Galveston (6lst Street and the overpass) at 2:00 p.m. Norma Oates will lead the trip and just might show us the magnificent frigate bird.' Bring a picnic supper .and bathing suit if you want to remain for a pleasant evening on the beach. August 6 Our regular bi-monthly meeting will be held in the O'Neill's charming garden at IO723 Beinhorn. It will be a picnic supper so B. Y. 0. L. (Bring Your Own Lunch) and plenty to talk about - especially vacations! You will enjoy seeing John's many birds - not to mention the "birds" who are members in good standing of this Club! Thursday, August 6, sort of 6:30ish. August 23 August field trip tal.be led by Jimmy Murray. Meet at ItJO a.m. at Thornhill's Cafeteria, Gulfgate. Trip will be to Tunnel and will work down west side of Trinity Bay including Texas City and Bolivar Penninsula. *********** ** ****** ORNITHOLOGY GROUP REPORTS REPORT ON FREEPORT FIELD TRIP Reported by Mabel and Bob Deshayes As we left the Almeda Weingarten's parking lot Sunday morning, June 21 at J:$0 a.m., the word was out that Clayton and Eva Gilman were going to produce an eagle, oystercatcher and a peregrine. The twenty-four in attendance had "divvied up" into a total of eight cars, and our ultimate destination was the beach at Freeport. With gas tanks full and clean windshields for better birding, the group drove on, ignoring the overcast skies, to Miller Road. With a canal on one side of us and some of the loveliest swamp area in the country on the other, the birding increased to an intensity quite gratifying for a summer trip. Among the species logged here were the cattle egret, yellow-shafted flicker, peewee, bluebird, lark sparrow, great crested flycatcher, yellow- crowned night heron, eastern kingbird, summer tanager, yellowthroat warbler, yellow-billed cuckoo, dickcissel, downy and red-headed woodpeckers, and the white-eyed vireo. Carl Aiken hit the ditch to spot a barred owl and prothonotary warbler for us. We all envied him those A & H boots. He also identified two fledglings as painted buntings. Though not deserting our ornithological calling, we were foroed to sympathize with the botanists and admire the abundant water hyacinth in the swamp.