Programs
How Birds Created the World … and Other Stories
Randi Minetour
Wednesday, May 28 at 7 PM
Lenoir Nature Center
19 Dudley St, Yonkers
7 PM Refreshments; 7:30 Presentation
Our speaker, Randi Minetor, will talk about myths and tales involving birds which she collected in her latest book, The Complete Language of Birds. These stories bring us back to a time when birds seemed like magical beings with the answers for many of the world’s questions.
Ancient Egyptians believed that the Earth began as an egg laid by a giant goose. Ojibwa people of America’s northern plains tell of a Great Flood that swept away the world’s evils, and the bird that braved the deep waters to bring a bit of soil up from the bottom to restart the continent. European scientists once believed that geese survived the winters by turning themselves into barnacles and adhering to the bottoms of ships, transforming back into birds in spring.
Randi Minetor writes the Birdfinding and Best Easy Bird Guides series for Falcon Guides/Globe Pequot Press and is the author of Backyard Birding and Butterfly Gardening and Best Easy Day Hikes: Buffalo. Her most recent book, The Complete Language of Birds, is an encyclopedia that unites classic illustrations, science, folklore, and mythology about more than 400 bird species around the world. She writes for Birding Magazine, is a regional report editor for North American Birds, and served for three years as president of the Rochester Birding Association. Copies of The Complete Language of Birds will be available for purchase
Lunch at Lenoir
Sunday, June 8 at noon
Lenoir Nature Center, 19 Dudley St, Yonkers NY 10703
June is a wonderful month to get together with your fellow members. We’ll serve foot-long heroes, both meat and vegetarian, salads, desserts and other refreshments. James Judy, our garden chair, will lead a tour of the Butterfly and Hummingbird Garden. Debbi Dolan, our conservation chair, will lead a Nature Walk around the preserve. Michael Bochnik will talk about birding.
RSVP with payment by June 1. Cost: $20 per person; send check to Hudson River Audubon Society, P O Box 616, Yonkers NY 10703 or pay by credit card, through PayPal.
Member’s Night
Wednesday, May 25 at the Lenoir Nature Center, 19 Dudley St, Yonkers
7 PM Refreshments; 7:30 Presentation
Members’ Night, an annual event, is the time for our members to present their best nature and/or bird photos of the year. All members are welcome to participate. We ask that you select 5 – 10 of your best; comments are welcome, indeed, interesting, but think of 5 minutes as your time limit. We want all participants to have a chance to do a show & tell yet finish the evening program within a reasonable time.
Send your photos, in PowerPoint or as jpg files, to Michael Bochnik, bochnikm@cs.com, by June 22. If files are too large to email, contact Michael (bochnikm@cs.com) for directions.