Friends: Cape May is having a 2 day "field trip" to look for shorebirds on the 24th and 25th of August. It's led by one of the folks who wrote the shorebird book. Cost for the workshop (not including travel, room and board) is about $190.
Anyone interested in car pooling? Pete Saracino Here is a description of the workshop: *Shorebirds with the Man Who Wrote the Book* *Wednesday-Thursday, August 24-25, 2016 (2 Days) With Michael O’Brien Second leader added if registration warrants Cost: $150 members, $190 nonmembers.* It is not surprising Houghton Mifflin’s landmark /The Shorebird Guide/ sprang from the brains and hands of three Cape May birders and authors. Now you can experience some of the East Coast’s best shorebirding while guided by one of them. Michael O’Brien is equal parts skilled birder and superb teacher. Search storied locations like Bunker Pond, the South Cape May Meadows, Stone Harbor, and Brigantine NWR for peeps, plovers and yellowlegs plus possible gems like phalaropes or godwits. Over 25 plovers and sandpipers are in easy reach, with some species numbering in the thousands. Learn to begin with size, shape, behavior and voice, and then move on to careful examination of plumage details, just as /The Shorebird Guide/ teaches. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
