Meeting Time and Place
April Meeting
BBC member Andrew Melnykovych will provide an update on the 2018 Hotspot Hustle birding competition; discuss plans for this year's Global Big Day effort, which will pit the BBC's birders in Jefferson County against Fayette County birders; and provide an overview of the new BBC birding slide show, which members can use when making presentations to outside groups. Come join us on Tuesday, April 10 at St.Mark’s Episcopal Church, 2822 Frankfort Ave, Louisville, KY 40206, 38.254256, -85.689458 for our monthly meeting. St. Mark’s is at the corner of Frankfort Avenue and Kennedy Ave. Please enter by way of the back door near the parking lot.
BBC member Andrew Melnykovych will provide an update on the 2018 Hotspot Hustle birding competition; discuss plans for this year's Global Big Day effort, which will pit the BBC's birders in Jefferson County against Fayette County birders; and provide an overview of the new BBC birding slide show, which members can use when making presentations to outside groups. Come join us on Tuesday, April 10 at St.Mark’s Episcopal Church, 2822 Frankfort Ave, Louisville, KY 40206, 38.254256, -85.689458 for our monthly meeting. St. Mark’s is at the corner of Frankfort Avenue and Kennedy Ave. Please enter by way of the back door near the parking lot.
Ohio Valley Birding Festival
The Ohio Valley Birding Festival is an Evansville Audubon Society event featuring guided spring migratory bird watching hikes in southwestern Indiana and western Kentucky along with family friendly birding activities at John James Audubon Park in Henderson, Kentucky. If you are looking for a nearby spring getaway, this looks great. Friday, April 20th - Sunday, April 22nd and Friday, May 4th - Sunday, May 6th. For details on the scheduled activities, go to https://www.ohiovalleybirdingfestival.org.
Birder's Bucket List for 2018
- 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 14.
- 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.
10. Take a child birding.
11. Keep your cat indoors and encourage others to as well.
12. Buy bird friendly (certified shade-grown) coffee.
13. Plant native species in your yard.
14. Donate your old/unused binoculars and scopes to nature centers, school groups interested in birding.
