3RBC
Membership Meeting
See Members' Slides
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Slide shows of our members’ photographs have been among our most popular meeting programs. We will see more of members’ colorful work at our meeting on Wednesday, April 19, at the Phipps Garden Center in Shadyside.
Who will be the photographers, and what will be their subjects? This is always a pleasant surprise, not announced in advance. Join us and thrill to the images on screen at the garden center. Doors will open at 6:30 PM for socializing, and the meeting will begin at 7:30.
A meeting guest will be Mary Beth Steisslinger of the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, who will explain the conservancy’s project to replace alien plants with natives in portions of Frick, Highland, Riverview, and Schenley parks. She will ask birders to help by sending bird observations to her from specific areas where the plant restoration is being done. The bird records will be used in the conservancy’s reports to agencies funding the project.
The Garden Center is at 1059 Shady Avenue behind the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts at Fifth and Shady Avenues. Parking is 25 cents an hour in a metered lot, and more parking is available on Shady Avenue. In addition, Beechwood Boulevard, a block east of Shady, has free parking and is a short walk through Mellon Park to the Garden Center. Detailed directions are on the Phipps website: http://www.phipps.conservatory.org/information/directions.html.
A look ahead: Rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker will be the program at our regular meeting on Wednesday, July 5. The presentation by Ron Rohrbaugh, director of the Ivory-billed Research project at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, was postponed from the original April date. Will he have good news about this year’s search for further evidence that the species still lives? We’ll find out!
