[va-bird] Brown Thrasher, Lynchburg; VSO annual meeting

A singing Brown Thrasher this morning during my neighborhood walk was likley
a new arrival.  They are scarce here in the winter, although we usually get
at least one on our area Christmas Bird Count, and this winter we had three
in the count circle.  Over the last seven years in my yard I've seen one as
early as March 30, with April 3-5 being a more typical first sighting date
there, and "The Birds of Lynchburg, Virginia and Vicinity", which covers
Amherst, Bedford, and Campbell Counties, lists April 1 as an average arrival
date.  
 

A new revised version of "The Birds of Lynchburg Virginia and Vicinity", by
the way, will be published in time for the 75th anniversary VSO annual
meeting to be held in Lynchburg April 30-May 2.  Meeting details have just
come out in the spring VSO newsletter, and non-VSO members are invited to
attend the meeting.  We have many great field trips scheduled to locations
such as Warbler Road on the Blue Ridge Parkway, the Patrick Henry National
Memorial at Red Hill, Appomattox Court House National Historical Park,
Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest, and locations on the James River.  Other
activities include a paper session, opportunities to mix with fellow
birders, exhibitors and vendors with bird books and other products for sale,
and a Saturday night banquet featuring as guest speaker Ian Sinclair, one of
Africa's foremost ornithologists, who has written and co-authored eighteen
books, including the "Field Guide to Southern Africa Birds".  A registration
form can be found on the VSO's website by accessing the Spring 2004
newsletter at >http://vsoeditors.home.comcast.net/<.  The registration
deadline is April 10th, so don't delay to make plans to join us for this
historic anniversary meeting, and come let us treat you to the great birding
here at the interface between Blue Ridge and southern Piedmont.

 

Gene Sattler, President

Lynchburg Bird Club



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