Hudson River Audubon
Society of Westchester
2009 Programs and
Events
Hudson River Audubon holds its programs at Lenoir Nature Preserve, a Westchester County Department of Parks, Recreation and Conservation nature center located at 19 Dudley Street, just off North Broadway in Yonkers. See directions and map below.
Meetings
and programs are free, except for the holiday luncheon. Non-members are always
welcomed. Meetings start with refreshments and social gathering from 7-7:30 PM,
followed promptly by the program. For more information, call (914) 237-9331.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
"Grand Tetons /
Yellowstone Park"
Presenter: Walter
Chadwick
A power point presentation highlighting the park's natural wonders and wildlife.
Soaring snow-capped mountains, super hot water erupting to 300 feet, boiling Mud, life at 200 degrees, abundant wildlife from bison to birds - these are some of the wonders of Grand Tetons and Yellowstone
National Parks.
Saturday, September 26,
2009
Hawk Day
Co-sponsored by HRAS and the Westchester Department of Parks, Recreation and
Conservation
Lenoir
Nature Preserve,
Yonkers
9:00 AM Hawk Watch
1:00 PM Live Hawk Talk
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
"The Hudson from the Adirondacks to the Atlantic"
Presenter: Steve Stanne - Hudson River Estuary
Interpretive Specialist for the DEC
This program is part of Hudson River Audubon's celebration of the 400th year since Henry Hudson sailed up the
river.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
"Fossils, Morphology and the Evolution of Birds"
Estelle Bourdon, Ornithologist at the American Museum of Natural History.
A presentation on the origin of birds and the classification and ecology of modern birds (living birds and their fossil representatives).
Saturday, December 12, 2009
HRAS Holiday Luncheon at the Lenoir Mansion The Polish
Center, Yonkers
"Pirates on the Hudson"
Presenter: Kimberly Flook - Historic Site Manager of
Philipse Manor Hall.
True and fascinating stories about pirates on the Hudson and their connection to Henry Hudson.
Wednesday, January
27, 2010
What We Don't See:
A Look at the Hidden Biodiversity in a Hudson River Tidal
Marsh
By Eric Lind
Lenoir Nature Preserve
7:00 PM
Eric Lind is the Director of the Constitution Marsh Audubon Center and Sanctuary. His program will focus on the wildlife and recent activities at Constitution Marsh. During this photographic journey, he will discuss the importance of the marsh to both resident and migratory wildlife.
There is no meeting in February but we will be showing a film
Wednesday,
February 24, 2010
The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies
Weather permitting, on 7:00 pm at the
Lenoir Nature Preserve,
there will be a
special showing of a spectacular DVD, entitled The
Incredible Journey of the Butterflies.
This NOVA production stars hundreds of thousands of
butterflies. Once a year, a veritable flood of monarch
butterflies take to the skies of North America, heading from
birthplaces in Canada and the U.S. for two months to a final
destination 2,000 miles away in the mountains of Central
Mexico. How do they do it — and how even dedicated
scientists can’t trick them into going elsewhere — remains
a mystery.
Wednesday,
March
24, 2010
"Antarctic"
Bernie Wides, Naturalist and Docent at the Hall of Ocean Marine Life at the American Museum of Natural History.
Wednesday, April
28, 2010
"The Birds of Central Park"
Deborah Allen, Researcher and Nature Photographer
This presentation precedes the HRAS field trip to Central Park on Sunday, May 2, 2010
Wednesday, May
26, 2010
"Costa Rican Ecology, Our Coffee, and Our Cars: A Naturalist's Travels and Musings in Central America."
Presenter: Ted Gilman, Environmental Education Specialist at the Greenwich Audubon Center.
Wednesday, June
23, 2010
"Members' Night"
Members will show their best photographs featuring nature from around the
world, our field trips, their vacations and their backyards.
Directions to Lenoir:
From Saw Mill River Pkwy: Exit at Exit 9, Executive Blvd. Take Executive Blvd.
to North Broadway and turn right. Go 1/4 mile and turn left onto Dudley Street.
Lenoir's parking lot is on the left.
By Bus: Take the # 6 along North Broadway to Dudley Street, one stop north of Executive Blvd.
Hudson River Audubon Society
P.O. BOX 616
Yonkers, New York 10703
Email: BochnikM@cs.com
Web: http://www.hras.org/programs/programs.html