The first SVBC member to correctly identify this bird wins one dozen Snickerdoodle cookies!
Send your response to:
eltangaral@gmail.com
(Pepe Castiblanco, Sarah and Charles Beeson-Jones are not eligible.)
Photo taken in rice fields behind Ciudad Neily, February 2018.
Good luck!
(photo courtesy of Sarah Beeson-Jones)
Over 30 San Vito Bird Club members graciously attended our Annual Meeting on Sunday, February 25th at Cascata del Bosco. Some highlights from the meeting (with photos below):
To those of you in attendance…thank you for your continued support. And personally, thanks very much for joining me on the Sunday bird walks.
To those members who live abroad or were unable to attend; your continued support of the San Vito Bird Club is ALWAYS APPRECIATED!
(photo courtesy of Jo Davidson: new SVBC President Peter Wendell and out-going President Greg Homer)
(photo courtesy of Alison Olivieri: keynote speaker Pepe Castiblanco)
(photo courtesy of Alison Olivieri: SVBC artist in residence Kathy Bauer)
Are you competing in this year’s San Vito Bird Club Bird Feeder Contest? If so, here are the rules and regulations once again:
Rules—1. Your bird feeder(s) must be viewable by you, and if you have more than one, all must be viewable from a single spot. In other words, you can’t have one here and one way out on the other side of the barn. 2. The birds must consume food from your bird feeder or around the bottom of your bird feeder. 3. Whatever food you put on the feeder(s) is up to you. 4. We use the honor system. If you say you had a Laughing Kookaburra on your feeder, we’ll accept it. But PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE…be sure you are correctly identifying your birds. 5. Submit your list to Greg Homer on or before our Annual Meeting on Feb. 25th. 6. First, second and third place submissions receive a prize!
To be eligible for the Bird Feeder Contest:
(Photo courtesy of Helen LeVasseur)
SVBC members; please join the San Vito Bird Club for our Annual Meeting on Sunday, Feb. 25th at Cascata del Bosco. Coffee and social time begins at 8:30am. Meeting begins at 9am. Following the meeting, another delicious full brunch from Cascata is offered for c6000 (including BLUEBERRY MUFFINS!) and begins at 10:30am.
To attend the Annual Meeting you MUST have your 2018 dues paid in full. You may do so, if necessary, at the door when you arrive for the meeting.
Aside from regular SVBC business and reports, we will have an excellent and local Keynote speaker, a silent auction of original artwork from SVBC members and an awards ceremony for the Bird Feeder Contest!
Please join us for a fun and informative morning.
Greg Homer–President of the San Vito Bird Club
Photo by Jo Davidson
Photo #1 comes to us from long-time SVBC member Jo Davidson.
Photo #2 comes to us from recent US visitor and SVBC member Troy Edsen-Smith.
What is it?—The San Vito Bird Club Bird Feeder Contest. Whoever has the most species of birds come to their bird feeder wins.
When is it?—Begins February 1st and ends 8am on Sunday, February 25th (the day of our Annual Meeting).
Rules?—1. Your bird feeder(s) must be viewable by you, and if you have more than one, all must be viewable from a single spot. In other words, you can’t have one here and one way out on the other side of the barn. 2. The birds must consume food from your bird feeder or around the bottom of your bird feeder. 3. Whatever food you put on the feeder(s) is up to you. 4. We use the honor system. If you say you had a Laughing Kookaburra on your feeder, we’ll accept it. But PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE…be sure you are correctly identifying your birds. 5. Submit your list to Greg Homer on or before our Annual Meeting on Feb. 25th. 6. First, second and third place submissions receive a prize!
Good luck one and all. Any questions, contact me (Greg Homer) at eltangaral@gmail.com.
(photo courtesy of Helen LeVasseur)
Many, many thanks to those of you who chose send a financial gift to the San Vito Bird Club in 2017.
Thanks to your generous donations our Detectives de Aves (Bird Sleuth) education program can continue in 2018! We can continue bringing this wonderful Cornell University curriculum to 5th grade students in the San Vito area. Click the link below for more info.
If have not yet donated and are able to do so…please do. We are regularly adding new schools and hope in 2018 to bring another teacher on board. Click on the link below to send your gift.
This program does some real good, brings joy and pride to a lot of local kids and parents, and who knows…maybe one of our graduates will become the next Alexander Skutch.
Congratulations to the great Steven Masis Dias for correctly identifying our latest quiz bird as the beautiful Golden-winged Warbler. A VERY tiny bit of yellow/gold color on the wing is viewable in the first photo below. A full photo of the Golden-winged Warbler is offered below as well. (photos courtesy of Jo Davidson)
Steven wins 12 home-baked Snickerdoodle cookies, which can be collected at El Tangaral after Jan. 12th. Bravo Steven!
Trying to identify this one may turn you upside down; but give it your best shot.
The first correct ID (sent to president@sanvitobirdclub.org) wins one dozen freshly baked Snickerdoodle cookies. Of course, you must either live in San Vito or come to San Vito to collect the cookies in January 2018.
Winner will be announced on the night before Christmas, 2017.
(Photo courtesy of Jo Davidson. Taken in November 2017 in Linda Vista.)
Congratulations to SVBC member Jo Davidson for correctly identifying our Quiz Bird: the female Red-breasted Blackbird.
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Felicidades a Jo Davidson para identificar nuestra quiz bird: la hembra de Red-breasted Blackbird (Sturnella militaris).
(photo courtesy of Alison Olivieri, taken near Playa Zancudo)
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