Calendar of Events
2010 Crane Season Activities
40th Annual Rivers & Wildlife Celebration
March 18 - 21, 2010 Holiday
Inn, Kearney, NE
Join other
wildlife enthusiasts in celebrating the annual spring migration of
sandhill cranes and much more. Keynote speakers will be Michael Forsberg,
Ron Klataske and Scott Weidensaul. For more details, click on 'Rivers &
Wildlife Celebration' on the left side of this page.
Fifth Annual Family Crane Carnival
March 27, 2010 Rowe
Sanctuary
Fun for the entire
family and a
great way to learn about cranes. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and it is
free to the public.
Sixth Annual Crane Watchers’ Breakfast
March 27, 2010 Gibbon,
NE
Held at the American
Legion in Gibbon and hosted by the Gibbon Area Chamber of Commerce, this
breakfast is one you don’t want to miss. Great food to go with a great
wildlife spectacle. Breakfast
served from
7 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
For additional activities in the area,
please visit
NebraskaFlyway.com
At Rowe Sanctuary
First Sundays at Rowe
Join us
for the next
First Sundays at Rowe on February
7th starting at 1:30 p.m.
Education Director
Keanna Leonard will instruct this fun, interactive, family-friendly
program where you will learn how to use binoculars and field guides, and
steps to help you identify birds. Then you will put your new found
skills to work and help our resident volunteer birders identify birds out
along the trails. For those not wanting to brave the cold, we can sit at
the windows and watch our wintertime feathered friends feasting at the
feeders. If you don’t have your own set of binoculars, no need to worry.
We will have binoculars you can use.
To
help ward off the winter chill, we will have hot chocolate and cider
ready. So come, bring the whole family, tell your friends and join
us for a great afternoon exploring nature.
Big Bend Audubon Society's Monthly Meeting Schedule
Note: These
meetings start at 3 p.m. on the dates listed, are open to the public and there is no admission for the
programs. For questions about the programs or meetings, please
contact Grant Newbold at 308-830-3070.
February 21, 2010 - Dudley Friskopp of
Kearney will be presenting on ocean floor research. Dudley
participated in an ocean floor research project this past summer and will
be sharing his experiences with us.
April 18, 2010 - Harlan Pankratz of
Kearney will be presenting on wildflowers. He is an avid wildflower
photographer and will be sharing images he has taken in Nebraska and the
surrounding states, as well as providing information about the plants
themselves.
National Events
Great Backyard Bird
Count
February 12-15, 2010
A joint
project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon
Society, this event is a great opportunity for families, students and
people of all ages to learn about birds in their backyards and parks,
while providing valuable data for bird conservation. For more
information, visit
www.birdsource.org/gbbc/
.
