Just FYI everyone, my field trip on Sunday starting at Mazo bottoms at 6:30am will go unless it is snowing. :) Hope to see you there! Happy Birding! --Chris W, Richland County Interpretive Naturalist Mississippi Explorer Cruises http://mississippiexplorer.com/chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://swallowtailedkite.blogspot.com/ http://www.nabirding.com/http://www.flickr.com/photos/swallowtailphoto "The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again." (From William Beebe's "The Bird: Its Form and Function," 1906) > Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:31:40 -0500 > From: pfissel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [wisb] Upcoming MAS field trips > To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Well, this "unusual" weather has played havoc with most of our April > Madison Audubon field trip schedule. The Frogs Night Out trip has been > cancelled/rescheduled TWICE, and is now combined with tonight's NRF trip > (which looks dicey, too.) The Cherokee Marsh trip last Friday evening > has been rescheduled for tomorrow evening (Friday April 29 - meet at the > north end of Sherman Ave. at 6:30 p.m. to dark, hoping for displaying > Snipe, Woodcock, etc.) > > We may actually get the Sunday May 1 trips in. Dan Doeppers and I will > be leading a walk at Lakeshore Preserve on the UW Campus - meet at the > main Picnic Point lot by the Class of 1918 Marsh at 7:30 a.m. If you'd > like a little more adventure (and an earlier start,) Chris West will be > leading a Wisconsin River Bottoms trip, meeting at the Mazomanie > Wildlife Area off County Y and Laws Dr., about 3 miles north of Hwy 14 > at 6:30 a.m. If there's anything good to be found, Chris will find it. > Bring walkie-talkies if you have them, as there will be car > caravaning to other locations. You can contact Chris for more details > at: little_blue_birdie@ msn.com, or see the Madison Audubon website for > details on all of our upcoming trips. (http://madisonaudubon.org/audubon/) > > And last, but most certainly not least, our spring Warbler Walks began > this morning. I'm sure Mike McDowell will post highlights of this > morning's walk at Pheasant Branch. All weekday MAS Warbler Walks begin > at 6:00 a.m. and "officially" end at 8:00 a.m., so folks can head off to > work, although if the birding's good, there are usually some stragglers > who can't tear themselves away. There are walks Tuesday through > Thursday each of the next two weeks at various locations - see the > website for details. (Mike could use coleaders on the PBC walks, by the > way, due to the lack of diligence by the field trips coordinator, that > lazy bum.) > > Peter Fissel > MAS Field Trips Coordinator (and slacker) > Madison, Dane Co. > #################### > You received this email because you are subscribed to the Wisconsin Birding > Network (Wisbirdn). > To UNSUBSCRIBE or SUBSCRIBE, use the Wisbirdn web interface at: > //www.freelists.org/list/wisbirdn > To set DIGEST or VACATION modes, use the Wisbirdn web interface at: > //www.freelists.org/list/wisbirdn > Visit Wisbirdn ARCHIVES at: //www.freelists.org/archives/wisbirdn > > #################### You received this email because you are subscribed to the Wisconsin Birding Network (Wisbirdn). To UNSUBSCRIBE or SUBSCRIBE, use the Wisbirdn web interface at: //www.freelists.org/list/wisbirdn To set DIGEST or VACATION modes, use the Wisbirdn web interface at: //www.freelists.org/list/wisbirdn Visit Wisbirdn ARCHIVES at: //www.freelists.org/archives/wisbirdn