VA BIRDers,
The CVWO annual meeting will be held Saturday, 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 at WM.EDU) or by telephone at
757-221-2217 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 - meet at ESVNWR Visitor Center). Several parties will be formed. This
is the best time of year (assuming we ever get a cold front!) to look for rare
species like Gray Kingbirds, Cave Swallows, myiarchus flycatchers, Harris’s
Sparrows and the like. Each party will contact the others with their finds.
All interested birders should contact Brian Taber (taberzz at aol.com) or Kurt
Gaskill (kurtcapt87 at aol.com).
Also, attendees are welcome to bring their donation for their Kiptopeke
Challenge Team to the meeting, if you have not sent it in yet.
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