This coming Saturday night at 7 PM will be a unique opportunity for birders in Iowa to get a glimpse of what birding could be like if you visited Botswana in southern Africa. Harold Hester, who is chairman of the Botswana Bird Club and a promoter of birding tourism in his part of the world will be giving a program on African birds at the Lost Island Nature Center in Palo Alto county.
Harold and his wife, Geraldine will be visiting some friends in the Spencer area for a few days and he has arranged to give this program. He would be a great contact for anyone interested in visiting southern Africa and finding birds while there. On Friday the Hesters and host Anthony Vodraska will join me for my annual birthday birding adventure. I would like to find them about 100 new lifers in North America but we will see if the hot and windy conditions hold off until later in the day. I apologize for getting this notice out so late but my computer blew up last weekend and I have been incommunicato until today. I hope this program will be of interest to some birders on the listserve and that you can join us for this event. I know I am looking forward to a virtual Africa bird tour and to confirming that I correctly identified the birds from South Africa that my boss's wife took pictures of when she was there. May the birds be with us!! Lee A. Schoenewe Spencer --- Please contribute your sightings to our list; it is only as good as members make it! --- Birding channel recommendation for FRS/GMRS radio use: Primary selection; channel 5/0 , alternate selection; channel 6/0 --- This mailing list is sponsored by the Iowa Ornithologists' Union. Membership available on-line at http://www.iowabirds.org/iou/membership.asp. ----- You are currently subscribed to ia-bird as: [email protected]
