Title | The Spoonbill, Vol. 29, No. 5, September 1980 |
Alternative Title | The Spoonbill, Vol. XXIX, No. 5, September 1980 |
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Publisher | Outdoor Nature Club |
Date | September 1980 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Location | ID 2007-023, Box 11, Folder 7 |
ArchivesSpace URI | /repositories/2/archival_objects/9865 |
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 | Rights Undetermined |
File Name | index.cpd |
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Transcript | <»!"""' Volume XXIX, No. 5 September 1980 PUBLISHED BY THE ORNITHOLOGY GROUP OF THE OUTDOOR NATURE CLUB, HOUSTON, TExaT COMING EVENTS Saturday OG "twin" field trip to Bolivar Peninsula and Anahuac NWR. Meet at Sep. 20 7:30 a.m. at either Anahuac NWR entrance or the Bolivar side of the ferry. Lunch together at the roadside rest area in High Island, exchange sightings, and then bird High Island or go see what the other group saw In the morning. When you pack you lunch, don't forget the mosquito repellant. Sunday Photography Group field trip to Anahuac NWR. Meet at 9:00 a.m. at Sep. 21 entrance. If you are making both Saturday's and Sunday's field trips, consider camping at the roadside rest area In High Island. Don't forget the mosquito repellant. Thursday SPOONBILL deadline for announcements, articles, etc. Sep. 25 Saturday Sep. 27 Sunday Sep. 28 Wednesday Oct. I Thursday Oct. 2 4th Annual Texas Coastal Bend Hawk Watch will be at Corpus Chrlstl. Last year over fifty observers from all over the s+a+e participated, making this one of fhe largest hawk watches In the nation. The entire world population of Broad-winged Hawks migrates through Texas. This hawk watch Is the most ambitious effort ever attempted to monitor that migration. Past Coastal Bend Hawk watches have never been lucky enough to encounter the big push of over 100,000 Broad-wings described by local observers, but over 10,000 Broad-wings have been counted on the hawk watch each year. Highlights last year Included a Swallow-tailed Kite that s+ayed around for two days. O+her diurnal mlgran+s such as anhingas and pelicans are also counted. Results are submitted to the Hawk Migration Association of North America. If you can help with the Coas+al Banc Hawk Watch or want additional information please contact: Rose Ann Rowlett, 1010 Woodland Avenue,,Austin, Texas 78704, phone: 512/444-5869. ONC field trip to Armand's Bayou. See Nature Notes for details. Photography meeting at 7:30 p.m., Bayou Manor auditorium, 4141 South Braeswood Blvd. Smoky Mountains and members' "show & tell" slides are on the agenda. Don't forget your Little Thicket slides for up-dating Luta Buchanan's Sanctuary Show. OG regular meeting at 7:30 p.m., Bayou Manor auditorium. For those of you In the OG Interested In some prime birding habitat just off the usual bea+en track, come to this meeting for a presentation by Wayne Sh|fflett, manager of the Attwater Prairie Chicken NWR. Wayne's program will describe the varied birding opportunities in an area described by Ben Feltner and others as potentially the highest inland Christmas Count In the U.S. Friday 0c+. 3 Clearing House deadline for Sep+ember slgh+ings. Weekend Visitors' Days at our Sanctuary. October Is a glorious month to visit Oct. 3-5 the Little Thicket. Cooler, but not cold, leaves turning color....come see for yourselves how lovely it Is. Visitors' Days hosts, Marion and Ed Taylor, will welcome you Friday should you desire to start your weekend then. Bring your own food, water, and plastic bags In which to carry home your own trash. See Page 9 for la+e-received news of Sept. 20 census of Henslow Sparrows. |