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Journal of a Sabbatical |
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March 4, 2000 |
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Today's Bird Sightings: Today's Reading: Early Spring in Massachusetts: from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau edited by H. G. O. Blake
Copyright © 2000, Janet I. Egan |
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Just some notes on the Audubon Society of Rhode Island Birder's Conference at George's of Galilee - I may leave this entry like this or come back and fill it in when I get less tired. Scoping the seawall at 8:15 - we decided it was too much of a stretch to get to Galilee from Providence by 8:15 so we decided to skip it and get there fro the start of the conference at 9:00. Turns out all we missed was some herring gulls and great black back gulls. We got to see plenty of them all day. Chris Raithel from Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management on terns that nest in Rhode Island. Jason Osenkowski also of RIDEM on migrants that stop over on Prudence Island - covered with deer ticks - fancy presentation slides with color bar charts and colored text projected over color slides of songbirds. Hard to read. Especially from the back of the room. Also, he was big on presenting his data but not clear in articulating his hypothesis and how the data supported or didn't' support the hypothesis. Geoff LeBaron from BirdSource on counting birds and showing trends basically a tour of the BirdSource web site. Screen shots of web pages don't really make good presentation slides for this kind of a gathering. Map analysis technology very interesting. Feeds into my fear of falling behind technology. Shawn Carey of Migration Productions with two short multimedia productions, one on birders and one on shorebirds same ones we saw at this conference two years ago. Bird walk on the beach - invisible old squaws - gotta get me a new scope - flock of sanderlings - fine sunny day - wanted to stay out there for the rest of the afternoon but also wanted to hear Wayne Peterson on seabirds. Ended up getting back in time to hear most of Brian Tefft on the Galilee Salt Marsh restoration. More interesting than I expected. Wayne Peterson on seabirds. Albatrosses. Shearwaters. Petrels. Penguins. Oh my. Gorgeous slides, well presented. Articulate and cogent speaker. Dick Ferrens on gulls. Man this guy has spent a lot of time with gulls and has pictures of every one of them from every angle. What's with all the roseate spoonbills? |
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