This St. Paul Audubon event is open to all, members or not. Light refreshments and a door prize drawing.
Event Date: 7 p.m., Thursday, April 9, 2009 Four Decades of Raptor Banding on the North Shore With Frank Taylor, Falconer Sponsored by St. Paul Audubon Frank Taylor’s passion for falconry has taken him all over the world, including trips to Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. But every autumn finds him back in his blind located on the edge of a hay field just off the North Shore of Lake Superior. With the help of a lucky few volunteers, Taylor has been catching and banding hawks and falcons during their annual fall migration. In the past 39 years he has banded more than 3,000 birds of prey and has been featured on several local and national television programs. An entertaining speaker, Taylor will share what he’s learned from his shoreline banding program and is bound to slip in some details from his world travels. Taylor, who was the first curator of education birds for The Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota, traces his interest in raptors to a drawing he made of an eagle when he was in the third grade . For more information, call Dan McGuiness at 651-260-6260. Enjoy this unusual and free Saint Paul Audubon program at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 9 at Fairview Community Center, 1910 West County Road B in Roseville, just west of Fairview Avenue. The event is free and open to the public, with free parking. Refreshments will be served after the meeting. ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
