You are invited to the Minnesota River Valley Audubon Chapter meeting this Thursday (9/27). Please, note the location is different from our home of recent years. Al Batt, Minnesota's resident humorist birder will be speaking at on "Stories from a life gone to the birds". The meeting starts at 7pm with a social time and the session starts at 7:30. Our meetings are free and open to the public.
Al Batt of rural Hartland, Minnesota is a writer, speaker, storyteller and humorist. Al writes five weekly humor and nature columns for many newspapers, and does a show three times per week about nature on a number of radio stations. He writes a number of popular cartoon strips that are syndicated nationally and has written jokes for a former President of the United States. He is a contributing author to the book, Minnesota Bird Watching. He speaks at various festivals, conferences, and conventions all over the United States. He has been named Birder of the Year by WildBird Magazine and received the Ed Franey Conservation Media Award from the Izaak Walton League. Al leads tours to Alaska, disappears into the woods whenever he is able, usually on the pretext that he is "taking the dog for a walk," We will be meeting at The Minnesota Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship is located at 10715 Zenith Ave S in Bloomington, south of Old Shakopee Road just west of Xerxes Ave. To get there take the I-35w 98th Street exit in Bloomington. If you have any questions, call me at 612-978-3993. Steve Weston on Quiggley Lake in Eagan, MN MRVAC Program Chair sweston2 at comcast.net