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Get green – or in this case a rich organic brown. Our June 11 meeting will be a video presentation on composting. The season is right to get your composting bin set up for garden and lawn debris. Check out the Meetings tab above for more details.
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Please join us on our June 13 trip to Washington, D.C. and the National Zoo. We plan to leave Philadelphia at 8:00 am. For full details check out the Field Trips tab above.
You must rsvp for this trip so that we can arrange adequate transportation.
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Saturday April 18 we will take part in our annual Earth Day volunteer project. This year the Humboldt Society will participate in the Morris Park Restoration Project. This area of Fairmount Park is being cleared of invasive species and native plants are being boosted or re-introduced.
For trip details click the Field Trips tab above.
RSVP is required for this trip but current, returning, new, and future members are all welcome to take part and pitch in for Earth Day.
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The award-winning video of Beyond The Garden Gate which was scheduled to be seen at our January meeting was cancelled due to a facilities problem. This month we will try again to present this beautiful piece of nature filming. Please join us to view this georgous piece of nature art.
For event details click on the Meetings tab above.
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The title pretty much covers it. Join us for a leisurely walk along the Wissahickon to appreciate the woods in winter. Nothing strenuous. Probably we’ll have an enjoyable lunch together afterwards. For details click on the Field Trips tab above.
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Michael, Michael, and Stephen traveled to Ecuador on a 14-day birding excursion. On Thursday Feb. 12, they will be presenting images and interesting comments about what they experienced at our February meeting. For details about meeting time and location click on the Meetings tab above.
Posted in Birding, Meetings, Natural History, Photography | Tags: Birding, Ecuador, Humoldt
Our January meeting and field trips have been listed in the tabs for each at the top of this page. Click on each tab for details.
A beautiful, award-winning video will be the focus of our January 8 meeting presentation. Our field trip on Jan. 35 will be a birding trip to ‘The Lakes’ in South Philadelphia. We will have an eye out for over-wintering water fowl. Please join us.
Michael, Michael, and Stephen will be heading to Ecuador on New Year’s Day for a birding trip in the Andes. Expect a presentation on this trip sometime this Spring.
Happy New Year to all.
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Did you know that thousands upon thousands of bird fly into buildings every year especially during spring and fall migration. There are many factors that contribute to these deaths but all the facts are not in. More documentation needs to be done and is being done on a daily basis here in Philadelphia and in several other cities. Perhaps in the future a way will be discovered to prevent these countless deaths.
You can help. Every day during migration season folks follow a specific route around some sky-scrapers, noting the weather, winds, lights and others factors. They also collect the dead birds, attach labels and take them to the Academy of Natural Sciences for future study. Although this project will be ongoing for several years during migration season it is about to come to a close this year on November 1, 2008.
See the Field Trips tab above for details.
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Our next meeting on Oct. 9 will be our annual Show-and-Tell and celebration of Alexander Von Humboldt’s birth (he’d be 239). Please see the Meetings tab above for more details. Stephen says:
As you probably know, this is one of our best meetings. Not only do we some sort of special delicious cake and blow out the candles for the anniversary of Alexander’s birth but there are always interesting, sometimes odd, even sensitive stories about the objects, things and animals people bring in to share with our members.
Hope to see you there!
P.S. Oct. 6 was Stephen’s birthday.
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