Announcements
This page will be devoted to announcements about special events and the contact person, meetings and information about the speaker, special member sightings and lost/found items.
Our January 26th meeting will be devoted to the Warblers in central Florida with Norm Lantz as the special speaker! Don't miss this meeting!
Don't forget to set aside March 15th and 16th, 2008 for the Outdoor Expo. Members will be asked to 'man' the booth as well as contribute some interesting pictures for display.


Visit the page on Whooping Cranes to find more information about this fabulous bird.

We had a real treat at previous meeting of The Village Birders. The guest speakers, with a 45 minute slide show, were Jerry & Sandy Ulrikson, Volunteers for "Operation Migration" the program that involves using ultralight aircraft to teach first year Whooping cranes a migration route in eastern N. America, from central Wisconsin in the north, to Florida's Golf coast in the south. This year, twenty juvenile Whooping cranes (Grus Americana) were taught a migration route to Florida, the 1,200 plus mile journey will end with a fly over at the Dunnellon Airport and then the juvenile Whooping Cranes will be taken to the Halpata Tastanaki Preserve. The Cranes are currently grounded in Southern Indiana due to bad weather but when Barb Gay gets a heads up on their Dunnellon arrival (should be in early December) she will send you a quick email so you have the opportunity to witness this awesome event.

Jerry & Sandy have been a part of the migration team for the past four year. Last year they migrated the entire route (1,250 miles) from Necedah, Wisconsin to near Crystal River, Florida which took 64 days.

 
The above female duck has adopted the domisticated white duck as one of her babies according to Alice Horst who submitted this photo. Cooper's Hawk spotted by Virginia R. Murphy in JE Parker Wildlife Preserve in Della Vista East in The Villages, photographed by Real A. Richard from our bedroom window May 4, 2005.