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[RubyThroat@xxxxxxx]

Good Morning Fellow TN-Birders
I want to take this opportunity to invite you all to visit our  spring 
banding session at Fort Morgan State Historical Park.  We  open the site to the 
public on March 31st and close the session mid-morning  of April 13th.  We open 
our nets well before dawn and usually close  them between 3-5PM daily, 
depending 
on the activity of the migrant birds we are  attempting to net and band.  
 
The birding can be excellent at Fort Morgan, which is located just  a ferry 
ride from Dauphin Island.  When you come, please feel  free to spend the day 
with us.  If you drive down, you may wish to  come to Gulf Shores and then come 
westward on Highway #180 to the end of  the peninsula to the Fort.
 
Bring a chair for each in your party.  We will have porta-potty  facilities 
at our site, compliments of our members.  Bring you lunch  if you wish.  There 
is a restaurant only 3 miles east of the site.   Insect repellent is always a 
good item to have in your back pack when you are on  the Gulf Coast.  Don't 
forget to bring your best camera and lots  of memory or film.  Take home 
in-hand 
shots of some migrant birds  in breeding plumage, things such as Painted 
Buntings, Scarlet  Tanagers, warblers out the wazoo are common as house 
sparrows.  
We do  catch some neat stuff in spring, with lots of Indigo Buntings, five or 
six  species of Vireos, lots of Grosbeaks and occasional nightjars if you  
are there early.  Morning net rounds generally produces the most birds and  the 
most variety of species.  
 
We can have slow days, but even then it is fun to hold major league Q &  A 
session with our hosts of Master Banders.  This session we  will have some 
guest 
banders from "up north".  Folks like Scott  Weidensaul (I am told that he 
writes books), Anthony Hill of MA, Nick  Pulcinella of PA and others will be in 
attendance as well.
 
Call me at 205-681-2888 if Martha and I can assist in any  way.
 
Bob and Martha Gail Sargent
The Hummer/Bird Study Group, Inc.
Clay, Alabama
_www.hummingbirdsplus.org_ (http://www.hummingbirdsplus.org) 
 


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