STATE COLLEGE BIRD CLUB

2007 Fall Calendar for meetings and field trips

Details of all 2007 field trips are currently tentative and will be revised in the next few weeks.

Unless otherwise noted, all regular meetings will be held at 7:00 p.m. in the Meeting Room in the Community Building in the Foxdale Village Retirement Community.

Local field trips will be announced on the scbirdcl e-mail list.

September 3, 2007 (Monday)
Labor Day Fall picnic
3:00 p.m. Shaver's Creek Environmental Center
This is a pot luck requiring the following food and drink contributions: Main courses, Desserts, Drinks, Appetizers, and Side dishes. RSVP to Roana Fuller for attendees and food items. Thanks to the Shaver's Creek staff for hosting the picnic. They will provide the eating utensils: plates, silverware, cups etc.

September 9, 2007 (Sunday)
** Field Trip: Informal trip to Bald Eagle State Park and Julian wetlands. Meet at Westerly parkway at 7:00 or at McDonalds at the Milesburg exit off I-80 at 7:30. Watch scbirdcl e-mail list for further details.
8:00 a.m. - noon (or before)
Leader: Greg Grove

September 15-16, 2007 (Saturday-Sunday)
** Field Trip: Broad-winged hawk Migration at Stone Mt. Watch scbirdcl e-mail list for further details. Directions and information about the Hawk Watch.
Leader: Greg Grove

September 26, 2007 (Wednesday)
Regular Meeting
7:00 p.m. – Foxdale Village Meeting Room
Program: Our guest speaker will be PGC biologist Jamie Zambo who will give a program entitled "Barn Owls in South-Central Pennsylvania" (related information).

October 24, 2007 (Wednesday)
Regular Meeting
7:00 p.m. – Foxdale Village Meeting Room
Program: Our guest speaker will be Aden Troyer who will give a talk on Optics (related information).

November 14, 2007 (Wednesday)
Regular Meeting
7:00 p.m. – Foxdale Village Meeting Room
Program: Our guest speaker will be Mark Banker who will give a talk on Ruffed Grouse (related information).

December 12, 2007 (Wednesday)
Regular Meeting
7:00 p.m. – Foxdale Village Meeting Room
Program: Our guest speaker will be Glenn Stauffer, who is a Penn State graduate student and he will give a program on his research on the Nesting Ecology of Grassland Sparrows (related information).

December 23, 2007 (Sunday) (rescheduled from December 16)
** Christmas Count: State College Area

December 30, 2007 (Sunday)
** Christmas Count: Bald Eagle State Park

January 5, 2008 (Saturday) (rescheduled from December 22)
** Christmas Count: Lake Raystown area, Huntingdon County

Previous schedules:
Spring 2007
Fall 2006