Wow - that is a lot to write. I think for future updates, I am going to abbreviate it to the "BTC MA Birding trip" Yes I know, not very original, but I'm welcome to suggestions if you have any.
So we have decided on a location for our field trip on June 13th. What field trip you ask? Why you obviously don't follow my blog or twitter stream, do you? That's OK, I don't blame you. But to bring you up to speed a little bit, check out this post from last week. It's ok, I'll wait for you, go ahead....
Great, you're back. Sound like fun? Excellent. Here are a few more details.
We've decided that we will take advantage of one of our "local" hotspots, the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge - aka "Plum Island." The plan is to start as early as possible/reasonable for all those that will be joining us in order to avoid some of the crowds that will inevitably be working their way across the refuge to reach the state beach at the south end. There are a number of advantages of doing so, least of which is the variety of birds on the refuge, and ample opportunities for photography and sketching. Also, it is only about a half hour from where the Mississippi Kites nested in NH last year (and they have already been spotted again this year).
For those that are traveling from further afield and wanting to make a full weekend out of it, I am thinking that we can also maybe have an "extension" on Sunday morning to go to Mount Auburn Cemetery. Again, we can see what people are interested in.
There has already been some great interest expressed from quite a few bird and nature bloggers, twitterers, and chirptrackers including:
Behind the Bins
Birdspot
Birding Girl
Birding Maine Blog
Brewster's Linnet
The Curious Birder
The Interstitial Spaces
Nature Potpourri
A New England Life
Plover Warden Diaries
And of course, the woman with the idea: Dawn's Bloggy Blog
I'm not sure yet that everybody on the above list can make it (although we certainly hope so) but we do have a few definite "yeses" in there.
Finally, if you are interested, and haven't contacted us yet, please let us know. We'd love to have you join us. You can let either Dawn or myself know via e-mail, blog comment, or on Twitter.
WIR 2/15-2/21
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10 comments:
Have fun!
Oh goodie...sounds like we will have a nice turnout!
It was so nice to meet Matt Bango who started Chirptracker and John Beetham..Dendroica on twitter. We birded central park a few days ago...some good birds still there.
So I look forward to meeting more Birdie blog friends.
See you all there!
Thanks Christopher for putting so much time into making the arrangements.
I'm still planning on it. I'm going to have to come up the night before. An ideas on where to stay? Where do you plan on meeting?
I never been there and looking forward to it.
Have an AMAZING time. Wish Birdcouple could be there... Can't wait to hear the full report...
Thanks for the trip update- I'm really looking forward to it!
I'm willing to help anyone with the kites but I refuse to bird anywhere other than NH right now!!!
Lauren
@John - I'm sure we'll have a great time. I swear, I'll get you up here one of these days.
@dAwN - I agree, we are going to have some fun people along!
@Bev - Glad to hear that you're coming. I'll look into suggestions this week. I think we might meet at the refuge HQ and carpool onto the refuge.
@Andy - It should be a treat if you've never been before!
@Birdcouple - you'll have to let me know if you are ever up in MA area, and we'll def have to get together for some birding!!!
@BirdingGirl Glad you are going to make it, we should have a good time, and you'll be able to put that new Sony 'teleconverter' to good use!
@Lowie Sorry to hear you won't join us in MA, but I understand you're '09 NH big year. I never came anywhere close to what you're accomplishing when I lived up there! Perhaps we'll catch up at the Kites.
Howdee.
I just set up a separate email account so that I can be updated on blog posts.
I noticed that you dont have that feature turned on in feedburner.
Let me know if you decide to use it..
My family prefers getting email updates.
I myself..do not like using google reader..I have an enormous blogroll but I always seem to miss some posts from blogs I like..
So i am hoping this will keep me better informed of new posts.
I got the June schedule and I am assigned to the north refuge boundary from 8 to noon on the 13th. That's the beach off parking lot 1. I'll see you when you show up there.
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