"Focus on Florida"
3RBC Meeting — Wednesday, May 15, 2002

Accomplished photographer and birder Roger Higbee has trekked all over Florida shooting slides that show the state's good birds and the hotspots where they're found. At our club meeting on Wednesday, May 15, he'll present his "Focus on Florida" program.

The meeting will be held at the Frick Park Nature Center, opposite 1960 Beechwood Blvd., in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill section. Doors will open at 7 p.m. for socializing, and the meeting will begin at 7:30.

If you want to see sharp pictures of the Magnificent Frigatebird, Spot-breasted Oriole, Mangrove Cuckoo (Audubon's painting you see here), Wood Stork, and other species seldom or never seen up this way, put this program on your calendar. Roger will show us where to see them in such slices of birding paradise as the Dry Tortugas, Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, Ocala National Forest and the Everglades.

Though he started birding as a boy, Roger had his interest jump-started when he married Margaret, a renowned birder in her own right. He has a geology degree from Pitt and now works as a consultant. Roger was formerly Program Chairman of the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania, participated in ASWP's Breeding Bird Census conducted for the Bureau of Forestry at Linn Run State park, and has led many a good outing.

Among Roger's credits are two annual awards as Indiana County Photographer of the Year. He has been an active member of our older sibling, the Todd Bird Club, since its inception.

3RBC Note: Permission to use the John James Audubon painting of the Male Mangrove Cuckoo located above has been obtained by the publisher of the CD entitled "Multimedia Audubon's Birds". Clicking on the image will give you an account of the bird from Audubon's journal. Enjoy!

Thank you to David Jett, Lydia Konecky, Phil Costanzo and the rest of the Frick Park Environmental Learning Center staff who offers the Frick Park Nature Center to the club for meetings.