2012

THE LAKE MICHIGAN FLYWAY
SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 2011 MEETING SCHEDULE

MEETINGS 7pm on 2nd Wednesday of each month at Lake Bluff Bird Sanctuary 2890 Lakeshore Rd. Manistee, MI Visitors welcome! 2012 OFFICERS: President: Brian Allen 231-723-7956 tananger@manistee.com Secretary: Rich Krieger 231-233-4209 krieger@charter.net Treasurer: Deb Krieger 231-233-7737 kriegd49@gmail.com Bird Counts: Tim Granger 231-723-9822 timgranger@hotmail.com Internet: Manisteeaudubon.blogspot.com Michigan Audubon’s Lake Bluff Bird Sanctuary 231-723-4042 lakebluff@michiganaudubon.org

PROGRAMS January – June 2012

ALL PROGRAMS AT LAKE BLUFF SANCTUARY
2890 LAKESHORE ROAD, MANISTEE UNLESS NOTED OTHERWISE.
CALL 723-4042 FOR INFORMATION

WED FEB 8, 7pm Film: ”Incredible Journey of the Butterflies”. PBS/Nova documentary about the life cycle of monarch butterflies.
SAT FEB 11, 10am Nature Hike at Lake Bluff with birder Tim Granger.
WED MAR 14, 7pm Jill Witt, wildlife biologist with the the Little River Band Natural Resources Department, talks about pine martens in the Manistee NF.
SAT MAR 10, 10am Nature Hike at Lake Bluff with birder Tim Granger.
WED APR 11, 7 pm Ramona Venegas, past pres of Manistee Audubon, reviews her three week trip to Chile and discusses life in that country.
SAT APR 14, 10AM Nature hike at Lake Bluff
WED MAY 9, 7pm Chris Sullivan from Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy reviews the efforts to preserve and restore Arcadia Marsh, an Audubon Important Bird Area
SAT MAY 12, 10am Natutre Hike at Lake Bluff
SAT JUN 9, 10am Nature Hike at Lake Bluff
WED JUN 13, 7PM Film: “The Big Year” about three birders vying for most species seen in a year. Steve Martin, Jack Black and and Owen Wilson.

No meetings in July and August.
See in again in September! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MEMBERSHIPS ARE RENEWED IN JANUARY
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Manistee Christmas Bird Count

Manistee Christmas Bird Count

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Field birders: call Brian Allen at 231-723-7956
Feeder watchers: call Don Kogut at 231-723-5928

Count center is at Fisk Rd. and US 31 and the count circle extends from this center point 7.5 miles east to nearly Brethren, north to just south of Bear Lake, west to Lake Michigan, and south to the Little Manistee River.

Optional brown bag lunch and warming up at the Allen's house at 5539 Bar Lake Rd. from 12:30 till 1:00. Free hot chocolate to all field observers that see at least 25 species for the morning, all others must BYOHS.

November Audubon meeting coming up!

Join us Wednesday November 9 at 6:30PM at the Lake Bluff Audubon Center

The program for the evening is Greg Miller from the Michigan Bluebird Society.

Also this evening is the annual potluck and election of offices and of course time for your bird and wildlife observations from this fall. Hope to see you there!

October Meeting cancelled

Due to reasons beyond our control the presenters for tonight's meeting are not able to be there.

We have decided to cancel the meeting for tonight Oct. 12, 2011. See you in November!

September meeting

Wed. Sept. 14, 2011

Welcome back, the first meeting for the fall will be a quick overview of the increasingly important computer program for tracking bird observations called eBird http://ebird.org/content/ebird.

Dr. Brian Allen will demonstrate how you can use this program to keep track of your birding, to find birds in Michigan and even anywhere in the world.

Share your bird and wildlife sightings from this summer.

Lampreys and other alien creatures

Manistee Audubon Meeting tonight with Tim Granger presenting Sea Lampreys in the Great Lakes. Join us for an interesting program and discussion about these and other invasive species in Lake Michigan.

Program at 7:00 this evening (Wed. June 8, 2011)

Meeting for May 11 Cancelled due to Deluge

The meeting originally scheduled for tonight at the Spirit of the Woods Conservation Club headquarters has been cancelled due to floods, hail, bridge washouts and other various disasters this afternoon and evening.