Beckham Bird Club will have its annual dinner meeting on Tuesday, March 12 at The University Club on the University of Louisville campus. A social hour with a cash bar will begin at 6:00 p.m. followed by a buffet at 7:00 p.m. The price of the dinner is $30.00.The deadline for making a reservation is March 8. More details will be found at our web site - beckhambirdclub.org. Click on the March newsletter. Alvaro Jaramillo has said that if golf is a good walk spoiled, then birding is a good walk perfected. It's such a simple, compelling, positive message. But that positivity is something that birders as a community have relatively rarely managed to convey. Why is it that with as great a "product" to sell as the redemptive power of a passionate curiosity about nature and belonging to community of some of the most interesting, caring people anywhere, we've made so little traction with the wider public? Please join us at the Beckham Bird Club annual dinner with keynote speaker Jeffrey Gordon, president of the American Birding Association, for a celebration of the power of birding to heal and transform not only our own lives but even our world. The title of his talk is Birding Together: How Birding Can Save Your Life and Maybe, Just Maybe, Save the World. Hope you can join us. Pat and Jane Bell Louisville ================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBERS============== When posting on BIRDKY, please close posts with your first and last name and your address (city or county). * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post on BIRDKY, send e-mail to: birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the KOS website at http://www.biology.eku.edu/kos/default.htm * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the KOS Photo Page to view photos of birds recently sighted in Kentucky: http://www.flickr.com/groups/kentucky_ornithological_society/pool * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To unsubscribe, send e-mail to: birdky-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject line. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * BIRDKY List Manager: Gary Ritchison. E-mail: gary.ritchison@xxxxxxx