[SEMCO] Cape Cod Bird Club September Meeting and 5th Annual Birding Cape Cod Weekend

[Cynthia Franklin]

The Cape Cod Bird Club September meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. on
September 13 at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
<http://www.ccmnh.org/> ,  869 Rte. 6A, in Brewster, MA.  Our meetings
are free and open to the public. 



Speaker is Blair Nikula - "Birding the Bank: The Birds of Stellwagen
Bank." 

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.

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.

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.

 

The 5th Annual Birding Cape Cod Weekend will be held Friday, Saturday
and Sunday, September 24th, 25th & 26th.

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 schedule of events
<http://massbird.org/ccbc/BIRDING%20CAPE%20COD%20WEEKEND.pdf>   can be
found on the website www.massbird.org/ccbc
<http://www.massbird.org/ccbc> .  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 at comcast.net

Cynthia Franklin
For the Cape Cod Bird Club  

 

  

	

 

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