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Celebrate Urban BirdsOctober 9th, 2010 
The Leffingwell House Museum, with guidance from a national program of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, is working to bring to people's attention how birds are affected by available green spaces, including parks, rooftop gardens, and even potted plants. This is an outside event. In the event of rain, tours of the colonial period house museum will be suspended for the day and we will do our best to accommodate all within our facility. We are hoping to have speakers, sales of bird houses and bird feeding supplies and to distribute other information about birds in our area. In colonial times birds were food, told the weather, approach of visitors and other dangers. Comments about the birds and the weather are frequently found in diaries, logs and letters. Urban birds are the House Finch, House Sparrow, Cedar Waxwing, Brown-headed Cowbird, European Starling, Oriole, Robin, Mourning Dove, Pigeon, Peregrine Falcon, Crow, Mallard, and Black-crowned Night-Heron and a short, double sided bird watch form accompanies this letter. Please make copies and distribute freely to friends, family, customers, clients, residents, students, classes and schools. The ten minute observation may be done at anytime, anywhere, individually, in groups or teams. It can be done multiple times. Download our "Celebration of Urban Birds 2010" flyer (Word doc) with tips on how to spot birds and all the information you need to participate (Page 1) and our "Focal Species Tally Sheet" listing local species with a small photo of each to help with identification (Page 2). Entry of the information into the urbanbirds.org/celebration/data website is encouraged but hardcopy may be mailed in to: ~Beryl Fishbone, Program Manager |
