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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The
Cape Cod Bird Club September meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. on September 13
at the <b><a href="http://www.ccmnh.org/"><span style='color:windowtext'>Cape Cod Museum of Natural History</span></a>, </b>
869 Rte. 6A, in Brewster, MA. Our meetings are <b>free</b> and open to
the public. <br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Speaker
is Blair Nikula - “Birding the Bank: The Birds of Stellwagen Bank."</span></b><span
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<p><span style='color:windowtext'>In conjunction with the Cape Cod Bird Club's
pelagic trip planned as part of the Birding Cape Cod Weekend, this program will
describe the birdlife of Stellwagen Bank. Blair Nikula, a native Cape Codder
and past CCBC President, is a life-long birder with over 40 years of birding
experience on the Cape and a special interest in seabirds. He will show us how
to identify and distinguish the seabirds we might expect to encounter on a
pelagic trip, and also talk to us about seasonal occurrence and at-sea biology.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='color:windowtext'>Blair Nikula is a former regional editor for
American Birds (now North American Birds), a former associate member of the
Massachusetts Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program Advisory
Committee, and currently serves as a member of the Mass Avian Records
Committee. Blair has also been studying and photographing dragonflies and
damselflies for about 20 years. For 13 years he co-edited Ode News, a
newsletter about the donates of southern New England. He also co-authored the
Stokes’ Beginner’s Guide to Dragonflies and Damselflies and A Field
Guide to the Dragonflies and Damselflies of Massachusetts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='color:windowtext'>He is currently working on a revision of The
Birds of Cape Cod. Seabirds have always been a special interest, and he
has spent hundreds of hours over the past 40 years bouncing around Stellwagen
Bank, as well as thousands of hours of land-based observations of seabirds from
shore.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style='color:windowtext'>The <b>5th Annual Birding Cape Cod Weekend</b>
will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September 24th, 25th & 26th.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='color:windowtext'>Members of the Cape Cod Bird Club will lead
walks to top birding areas throughout Cape Cod. Contact information for walk
leaders and the complete <a
href="http://massbird.org/ccbc/BIRDING%20CAPE%20COD%20WEEKEND.pdf"><span
style='color:windowtext'>schedule of events</span></a> can be found on
the website <a href="http://www.massbird.org/ccbc"><span style='color:windowtext'>www.massbird.org/ccbc</span></a>.
There are still a few spaces left on the pelagic trip on September 26. Contact
Person for the pelagic trip is Charlie Martin 508-430-1257 or
cemartinjr@comcast.net<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='color:windowtext'>Cynthia Franklin<br>
For the Cape Cod Bird Club <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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