Membership Renewal Time
Your membership runs from January to December so unless you are a new member and joined in October your membership needs to be renewed. Please pay your dues promptly either by mail or at the meeting. Use the dues envelope or membership form. Please fill out the information carefully so that it is legible especially your email address. Please consider joining as a contributing member.
We are For the Birds!
The Beckham Bird Club, Inc., in existence since 1935, is a nonprofit organization of men, women, and children who are interested in birds, ecology, and nature. It is named for Charles Wickliffe Beckham, the first native Kentuckian to achieve a national reputation as an ornithologist.
Beckham Bird Club members are people who like birds, enjoy watching them, and want to keep in touch with others who also enjoy the sport. Birding can be as relaxing or strenuous as desired. Some prefer backyard birding – others prefer field trips. Either way, birding provides the enthusiast with excitement, the chance to learn, and fun. The Beckham Bird Club welcomes both individuals and families as members.
Meeting Time and Place
Meetings are held the second Tuesday of each month (except March and June) at 7:00 p.m. at the Clifton Center, 2117 Payne Street off of Frankfort Avenue, in Louisville, KY. (click the link for a Google map) Occasionally our meetings are held at other locations, the newsletter indicates any such changes. Programs are varied and include lectures, discussions, panels, slides, movies and the many phases of ornithological study.
The next meeting of Beckham Bird Club will be on Tuesday, January 10 at 7:00 p.m. at the Clifton Center, 2117 Payne Street in the Community Room. Our speaker will be David Wicks and he will speak on “The Kentucky Conservation Committee: Working together for positive environmental legislation.” David M. Wicks, Ed.D. received a doctorate from the University of Louisville in supervision and curriculum design, a masters in Urban Education from Fordham University, and his undergraduate work was at Rutgers the state university of New Jersey and the United Nations in International Environmental Studies. Dr. Wicks is the coordinator of the Lincoln foundation Math and Science Programs and is owner of GoKY, an outdoor adventure company. Currently he serves as President of the Kentucky Conservation committee, a state wide environmental lobbying group. Thirty-four years ago he founded the Jefferson County Public Schools Center for Environmental Education. In 2009 he retired, but the center continues its work with our communities 150 or so public schools. The Kentucky Conservation Committee receives money from the BBC Birdathon donations.
Come celebrate Beckham Bird Club’s 77th anniversary.