Hi Everyone,
Mary Beth Warburton has planned an informal memorial gathering for friends of Sherri (Gerry) Leigh Smith, who passed on 9/13, this coming Friday, September 30 at Derby Hill from 2 to 3 p.m. Please feel free to just show up. The gathering will be at the sanctuary headquarters (main north lookout) at the top of a hill on a bluff overlooking Lake Ontario. Directions can be found online. If there are any questions, Mary Beth Warburton can be reached at msmarybeth.warbur...@gmail.com <mailto:msmarybeth.warbur...@gmail.com> or 315-212-0722 (Cell). The weather forecast for 9/30 at Derby Hill shows a sunny day with a temperature around 60 degrees. The NYS Ornithological Association Annual Meeting is being held September 30 - October 2, and there are no events scheduled until Friday evening. Mary Beth planned the informal memorial gathering date and time so any Annual Meeting attendees who would like to come can attend. Derby Hill is about a 30 minute drive to the Annual Meeting location on Lake Ontario. There will be a formal memorial service held in early spring 2023: Obituary for Gerald A. Smith | Coffey Funeral Home <https://www.coffeyfuneralhome.com/obituary/Gerald-A-Smith> . Please feel free to forward this message to other list serves. Joan Collins Long Lake, NY -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
