Bulletin Board

Our February-15 meeting will feature a photographic presentation entitled "Birding Through the Seasons in Tioga County" by local birder and award-winning photographer Gary Tyson. The program will be discussion-oriented and consist of photographs and some statistical data documenting changes in the local bird population in Tioga County over the course of a year. Gary is a life-long bird watcher and bird photographer. He organizes bird walks at Hills Creek State Park in the spring and coordinates the National Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count in Tioga County. His bird photographs have appeared in the Sun-Gazette, Wellsboro Gazette, Mountain Home News, Pennsylvania Birds, and Wild Bird Magazine. The Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology regularly uses his photographs in its online and printed publications and email newsletters. He regularly donates photographs to other environmental and outdoor-oriented organizations at their request as well. The meeting will take place at 7:30 PM at the Gmeiner Art and Cultural Center, 134 Main Street next to the Green Free Library in Wellsboro. As usual ,the presentation will be preceded by a board meeting at 6:30.

Other upcoming events:

• March: Plants and Birds- Kathy Riley/Bob Hansen
• April: Vernal Ponds-Michael Gross
• May: Spring Bird Count. Annual picnic at Hills Creek State Park

Great Backyard Bird Count. The 15th annual Great Backyard Bird Count, sponsored by the National Audubon Sociey and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, takes place Feb. 17-20, 2012. Anyone can participate in this free event and no registration is needed. Watch and count birds for at least 15 minutes on any day of the count, February 17-20, 2012.You can get more information about the count and enter your results at www.birdcount.org, where you can watch as the tallies grow across the continent. The four-day count typically records more than 10 million observations.