[SEMCO] Cape Cod Bird Club Publicity

Wed Oct 5 09:22:10 EDT 2016

Press Release
(Apologies for the lateness.  We were away.)
For immediate release

The Cape Cod Bird Club will meet on Monday, October 10th, 7 PM, at the Cape
Cod Museum of Natural History, Rte 6A, in Brewster.  Meetings are free and
open to all.  This month's speaker is
Keenan Yakola, a native Cape Codder who first got interested in birding and
conservation through service as a high school intern at the Wellfleet Bay
Audubon Sanctuary.  Since then he has received his Bachelor’s Degree from
the University of  Massachusetts in Wildlife Conservation, studied
songbirds in Kenya and Tanzania, bushwhacked through the Peruvian Amazon,
banded songbirds and shorebirds from Cape Cod to Florida, and over the past
three years has lived out of his tent for 4 months each summer on islands
in the Gulf of Maine. He is now back at UMass Amherst as a Master’s Fellow
with the Northeast Climate Center studying Common, Arctic and Roseate Terns
and their vulnerability to Climate Change while nesting on islands in the
Gulf of Maine. He topic is *Birding from the Edge: A rare look into the
life of a seasonal biologist on the outmost island in Penobscot Bay, Maine*

* Bird Walks for October..*
*Walks are free and open to all.  Please contact the walk leader for
updates on meeting places and weather.*

*Gardens…Not Just for Butterflies – Mid-Cape*

*Peter Bono, *pbono at prba.com* or 774-487-2848 – Saturday, October 8 at 7AM*

Rise and shine with the birds at the Brewster, Dennis and Harwich Community
Gardens.  These areas have had vagrants in past years, so why not check
them out just in case.  Plus, we will have a variety of local birds that
are pleasing to the eye.  Meet at the parking lot across from the Cape Cod
Museum of Natural History.  Email Peter (pbono at prba.com) to let him know
you are coming.  Rain cancels; phone him (774-487-2848) after 6:30AM on the
day of the walk if you are uncertain that the walk will be run.

* Fort Hill – Eastham*

*Ed Hoopes, *ehoopes63 at comcast.net* or 508-737-7479 – Friday, October 14 at
10:30AM*

Join us for a walk along the loop trail at Fort Hill in Eastham.  We will
also watch the marsh during the incoming tide in hopes of those secretive
sparrows being pushed up by the water.  High tide will be at 10:47AM.  If
you would like to walk the marsh edge, please wear knee high waterproof
boots.

*Birding Truro*

*Ginie Page, *vgpage at juno.com* or 508-349-6810 – Thursday, October 20** at
8:30AM*

Many people like birdingTruro, but some don’t know exactly where to go.
Join us while we run around town searching for a variety of birds from bay
to ocean and the thickets in between.  We will meet and carpool from the
Dunkin Donuts (2393 Route 6) parking lot in Wellfleet

*Milling with Birds – Mid-Cape*

*Judith Davis, *motherjude3 at aol.com* or 508-432-3780 (home)/508-221-2322
(cell) – Saturday, October 22 at 7AM*

We will begin the morning at Corporation Beach looking for seabirds and
gulls.  Then we’ll carpool over to Dennis Mill Pond, Scargo Lake, Stony
Brook Mill, and Lower Mill Pond searching for dabbling ducks.  This is an
easy morning of scoping for birds from the shore, so bring your scope if
you have one.
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