ALL BBC ACTIVITIES CANCELLED THROUGH END OF 2020
The BBC board has made the difficult decision to suspend all activities through the end of 2020.
At this point, we do not know when St. Mark’s Episcopal Church will reopen, so it is impossible to schedule meetings and book speakers for the next few months. We are hoping that the exciting speakers we had booked for this year will be able to join us in 2021.
After surveying our field trip leaders, the board also has decided to suspend field trips. Even though the risk of contracting COVID-19 is much smaller outdoors, there simply are not enough field trip leaders who feel comfortable leading group activities at this time.
Membership Renewal Time
It’s a bit awkward to ask members to renew their membership in an organization that has had to suspend all activities.
But here we are – more than six months into the COVID19 pandemic, with no clear end in sight and no firm date for resuming meetings and field trips. The Beckham Bird Club leadership is frustrated, and we are sure that our members are frustrated as well.
Nevertheless, as we do every year at this time, we are asking our members to renew for the next year. Now, more than ever, we need your continued support. As always, you can renew your membership by sending a check or you can pay online at www.beckhambirdclub.org/membership.html.
The pandemic has hampered our ability to engage with the community and to attract new members, both through our own activities and through organizations that invite the BBC to make presentation. That makes it especially important that we not lose existing members.
In addition to asking you to renew, the BBC board has an additional request. As you may have read or heard, the pandemic has brought a surge of interest in birding, as people put feeders in their yards or spend more time outdoors.
This a huge opportunity for the BBC to attract new members. If you encounter new birders, whether when you are out birding or in other contexts, please encourage them to join the BBC. Remind them that joining before the end of this year makes you a member through 2021 – 15 months for the price of 12!!
2020 BBC BIRDATHON
Your donations are very important to the different groups BBC have accepted as recipients of our birdathon money. Even if you did not receive an email or phone call please consider giving a donation – NO AMOUNT IS TOO SMALL. Make your check payable to Beckham Bird Club. If you have not been contacted send your contribution to the post office box address: Beckham Bird Club, P.O. Box 5301, Louisville, KY 40255-0301. Otherwise send it to the person you sponsored. Help us reach $20,000. Thanks so much!!! Thanks to all who have all ready sent in a donation.
Several BBC members took part in the Big Global Day on Saturday, May 9. In the past Jefferson County and Fayette County have had a contest do see who would see the most species. But this year was different the two groups decided to just go out and bird and find as many birds as possible throughout the state. Jefferson County recorded 140 species and 188 species were seen in Kentucky.
Your donations are very important to the different groups BBC have accepted as recipients of our birdathon money. Even if you did not receive an email or phone call please consider giving a donation – NO AMOUNT IS TOO SMALL. Make your check payable to Beckham Bird Club. If you have not been contacted send your contribution to the post office box address: Beckham Bird Club, P.O. Box 5301, Louisville, KY 40255-0301. Otherwise send it to the person you sponsored. Help us reach $20,000. Thanks so much!!! Thanks to all who have all ready sent in a donation.
Several BBC members took part in the Big Global Day on Saturday, May 9. In the past Jefferson County and Fayette County have had a contest do see who would see the most species. But this year was different the two groups decided to just go out and bird and find as many birds as possible throughout the state. Jefferson County recorded 140 species and 188 species were seen in Kentucky.
Birder's Bucket List for 2020
- Come to a BBC meeting if you have never been to one.
- Join in on a field trip if you have never been to one.
- Make plans to go to the March Dinner Meeting at Big Springs Country Club on Tuesday, March 10.
- Join the Kentucky Ornithological Society (KOS).
- Go to one of the KOS weekends in April or September.
- Plan a trip to Magee Marsh in Ohio around the first two weeks of May.
- Donate to the BBC Birdathon.
- Submit your bird list to ebird. It is so easy.
- Subscribe to birdKY
- Take a child birding.
- Keep your cat indoors and encourage others to as well.
- Buy bird friendly (certified shade-grown) coffee.
- Plant native species in your yard.
- Donate your old/unused binoculars and scopes to nature centers, school groups interested in birding.