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VA BIRDers,

The CVWO annual meeting will be held November 13, 2004 at the Best Western 
Sunset Beach Resort, near the northern end of the CBBT.  The meeting starts at 
11AM and will conclude at 2PM.  All CVWO members, donors, and interested public 
are invited to attend.   Ruth Beck will be the MC and introduce yearly 
summaries of business items important to the Observatory such as the 
Treasurer’s report and encapsulations from the various committees on Songbird 
Research, Hawk Research, Butterfly Research, Development, Membership, 
Publications, and Nominating.

At the meeting the CVWO will present special service awards in honor of John 
and Martha Dillard and Harry Armistead.  And, Ms. Elizabeth Long, candidate for 
M.S. in Biology at the College of William and Mary and the Center of 
Conservation Biology, and recipient of the First CVWO-awarded Joy Archer 
Scholarship, will present a seminar on her research, “Prey selection of the 
Peregrine Falcon during the breeding season in Virginia.”   Also, CVWO 
President, Brian Taber, will give a brief summary of our organization’s 10 
year history.

Attendees at the meeting will have an opportunity to meet with CVWO’s 
Directors and Staff members during lunch, provided at no charge.  Please 
contact Ruth Beck on or before November 7th via email (RABECK@xxxxxx) or by 
telephone at 757-221-2217 or 703 768 2172 and state how many in your party will 
be attending so that the luncheon can be arranged.

Before the annual meeting begins, there will be a Rarities Round-up Field Trip 
(7:30AM).  Several parties will be formed. This is the best time of year to 
look for rare species like Gray Kingbirds, Cave Swallows, myiarchus flycatchers 
(will the Ash-throated Flycatcher stick around?), Harris’s Sparrows and the 
like.   Each party will contact the others with their finds.  All interested 
birders should contact Brian Taber (taberzz@ aol.com) or Kurt Gaskill 
(kurtcapt87@xxxxxxx).

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