Bird Club

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 .

SEE THE REPORT ON THE NEW RIVER GORGE NATIONAL RIVER 2009 PEREGRINE FALCON RESTORATION PROJECT

Don't forget the Great Backyard Bird Count, February 12-15, 2010.

Osbra Eye Memorial Walk: Saturday April 24, 2010 at Kanawha State Forest. Registration from 9:00 to 9:30a.m. at the pool area.

Nature Journaling classes: instructor Betsy Trammell, Last two saturdays in February and March at Main Street Art Studio in Hurricane, WV. To register call 304-982-1522. The classes will be from 9:00a.m. to Noon.

Master Naturalist

The 2009/2010 year is about to begin

A new management group has been established

See the article in the Charleston Gazette-Mail

Check out all the activities

Some photos on the current Master Naturalist program in Kanawha county

Rob Tallman, Ornithologist with the WV Division of Natural Resources discussed the West Virginia Breeding Bird Atlas II at the November Handlan meeting.

For background information check out DNR's Breeding Bird Atlas website . (http://martes.dnr.state.wv.us/BreedingBirdsAtlas/default.aspx)

For entering data into BBA database go to the atlasing site. (http://bird.atlasing.org/Atlas/WV/)

Read all of the Nature Notes series in the "Friends of Blackwater Quarterly" by our own J. Lawrence Smith

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.

We are saddened by the news of the death of Bill Grafton

A recent issue of Wonderful West Virginia magazine includes an article about the Evening Grosbeak written by the Handlan Chapter's own J. Lawrence Smith.

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

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.

Great Blue Heron	Moths	Winfield Wetlands
Hummingbirds	Spring	Winfield Locks
Butterflies & Dragonflies	Green Bottom	2006 Christmas Bird Count
Peregrine Falcon	Winter	Mute Swan
Carriage Trail	Capitol Hawk	Water Birds
	Coopers Hawk

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 allbeejs@yahoo.com

Red Shouldered Hawk

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Photo Courtesy of Alice Knight

Photo Courtesy of Mike Wright