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Read all of the Nature Notes series in the "Friends of Blackwater Quarterly" by our own J. Lawrence Smith
 
   
The Handlan Chapter of the Brooks Bird Club meets on the third Monday of each month, at 6:30 p.m. at the South Charleston Public Library .
 
   
The Brooks Bird Club held the 2009 Foray in Randolph County, June 13-21.
 
   
You can click on this link to see the newspaper article Carolyn Harmon wrote about Wendell Argabrite speaking to our bird club. 
 
   

Check out  the article in the Charleston Gazette by Rick Steelhammer about the 2009 Winter Eagle Survey , with a picture of our own Chuck Wright.

 
   
Rob Tallman, Ornithologist with the WV Division of Natural Resources has announced that the West Virginia Breeding Bird Atlas II website is up and running!
 
   

It's Summer!

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Here is a list of some of the wildflowers seen on White Hollow Trail during the annual Osbra Eye Memorial Spring Walks on April 25, 2009.
Here is an article that had been published in a bird journal about the eminent WV birder, George Hall.
The first Chimney Swifts of the season have been sighted  on the Gulf Coast
retuning from their wintering grounds in South America.  ChimneySwifts.org is plotting the swifts' movements northward over  the next few months.
Indices listing all the bird photographs and flower photos on this website submitted by our members have been added for your convenience.
Here are the bird details of the 2008 Handlan Century Count
Here are the bird details of the 2009 Handlan Century Count
Learn about the Point Count Program in West Virginia
Check out some links about bird feeding.
The February 2009 issue of The Raptor Chapter, a publication of the Three Rivers Avian Center
Other Birding Events and News Items           
Update on the Alice Knight Memorial
 

Field Sparrow

Photo Courtesy of Doren Burrell

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Check out some more great photos by

 Doren Burrell

 

 Master Naturalist

 Updated 2009 class schedule

Some photos on the current Master Naturalist program in Kanawha county  

 

Check out some fascinating Hummingbird photos.

 

Check out some nice Red Tailed Hawk photos

by Ron McLaughlin

 

 
WCHS-TV news recently aired another WV Wildlife segment featuring one of our Handlan members, Bev Wright, who did an excellent job describing the joys of feeding birds.  The video was shot at Bev and Chuck's home.
 
To see this video clip click here,  or go to wchstv.com.  - WV Wildlife

 

 
See the article about John Smith in the July 22, 2008 issue of the Putnam Standard.
 
See some wonderful photos of Bald Eagles sent in by a member.
 
For birding reports for Russ Young's famous Spring Hill Cemetery birding walks check out the Cemetery walk page.
 
See the article about the Allegheny Front Migration Observatory (Dolly Sods bird banding station) in the September 14, 2008 issue of the Sunday Gazette-Mail.
 
If you are intrigued by dragonflies, Jim Waggy wrote an article about them that's in the current (August) issue of Wonderful West Virginia magazine, the magazine that is beautifully edited by Master Naturalist near-grad Sheila McEntee.
 

Sandhill Cranes

See the great pictures of Sandhill Cranes by Matt Orsie. 

Some additional photos of the Hiwassee flock.

 
 

Peregrine Falcon

Photo Courtesy of Jim Triplett

Click picture to read about a pair of Peregrine Falcons which have been hanging out around the I 64 bridge with photos by Jim Triplett and Ron McLaughlin

 
   
 
Here are some Puffin photos taken on our trip to New Brunswick.

Here are the links to the YouTube videos referenced in the Puffin presentation at the October 20th meeting.

1)  Puffins on Machias Seal Island

2)  Puffins Swimming Underwater

3)  Rough Trip on the Grand Manan Ferry

ALICE KNIGHT

We miss Alice, but her photos give us something to remember her by.

 

 

Jason Scott Means has some wonderful bird photos at his flickr site.


 

Kite

Click above picture to read the story by Kevin Cade of the Charleston Daily Mail

Members who would like to contribute photos, sightings, or other information to be added to the web site, may send that information to bird@kvbirdclub.org.

 

Red Shouldered Hawk

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Photo Courtesy of Alice Knight

 

Photo Courtesy of Mike Wright

 

 


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