Brookline Bird Club

Spring Meeting 4/16

2010-04-01T17:51:00.000-04:00

SPRING LECTURE MEETING

FRIDAY, April 16, 7:30 PM

Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

The guest speaker, Joshua S. Rose, Ph.D., will present "Birding Destinations of the Lower Rio Grande Valley".

Josh Rose grew up in Peabody and Wenham. He loved nature from an early age and first became interested in birding as a student of Barbara Drummond. His career has been driven by his love of nature. He has worked for the Massachusetts Audubon Society and the Manomet Center for Conservation Science, Point Reyes Bird Observatory, Whitefish Point Bird Observatory, Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, Hakalau National Wildlife Refuge in Hawaii, and most recently at the World Birding Center at Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park.

Members and guests are cordially invited. Admission is free. Parking is free at the 52 Oxford Street garage (opposite Everett St). Tell the guard you are attending the BBC meeting.

Register for the June Extreme Pelagic

2010-03-30T18:17:00.000-04:00

IT IS TIME TO SIGN UP FOR THE JUNE BBC EXTREME PELAGIC TRIP:

Sign up now for our Brookline Bird Club June 26 Extreme Pelagic
trip:

Date: SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 2010

Time: 4AM - 9PM

Where: from Hyannis, MA to the off-shore waters of
Hydrographer and/or Veatch's Canyons

Birds expected: AUDUBON'S, Greater, Sooty, Cory's and Manx
Shearwaters, Leach's, Wilson's & Band-rumped
Storm Petrels, Parasitic and Pomarine, Jaegers,
Gannets, Gulls, Terns and several marine mammals.
This is the time of year to look for the
PTERODROMA PETRELS in our Massachusetts waters.
Several different mammals and fish are also seen.
Anything is possible.

Maximum participants = 75
Cost: BBC Members: $130,
Non-members: $150

Contact Ida Giriunas Cell: 781-929-8772 for further information and for the necessary waiver form to be signed.

The BBC also has Pelagic trips scheduled in July, August & November.
For more information on these trips, go to the BBC Pelagics Page

Announcing the Recent Trips Blog

2009-07-26T21:28:00.001-04:00

The BBC has started a blog for trip results. Take a look and read about our adventures in Maine and on the July pelagic.

We'd like to get something from every trip the BBC takes included, so take photos and send in your reports. Trip leaders, contact the webmaster to discuss how to get things posted.

For the latest BBC news, follow @BBCBirds on Twitter.

If you have suggestions on other ways the club can use Twitter and other web services, contact the webmaster.

2008 Statistical Report

2009-06-01T21:25:00.000-04:00

The 2008 Statistical Report is now online. Highlights include 306 species, 190 trips, and individual lists reaching 326.

Read the report

Common Pasture Viewing Platform Dedicated in Memory of Larry Jodrey and Jerry Soucy

2009-04-26T21:19:00.000-04:00

A new viewing platform at the Common Pastures on Scotland Road in Newbury provided by the Essex County Greenbelt Association was dedicated in memory of the Honorable H. Lawrence Jodrey and Gerald Soucy on Sunday, November 2, 2008. See More