The Lynchburg Bird Club meets on the second Wednesday of the month from September through May (except December) at 7 p.m. After a few brief announcements, bird reports, and club business, there is a program presented by a featured speaker. Anyone with an interest in birds (including non-members) is welcome at bird club meetings.
**New meeting location at Liberty University**
Since January 2025, we've been meeting in a new location: Room 128 on the first floor of the Center for Natural Sciences at Liberty University. On this map, the Center for Natural Sciences is Building #4. Parking is available in the Academic Commons Garage located off of Regents Parkway. Handicap parking is available on the north side of the Old Reber-Thomas building (Building #35). It is marked by signs for Student Mail. Detailed directions are included in "The Bluebird" newsletter.
The November-December 2025 issue of The Bluebird newsletter has been sent to members. If you are a member and did not receive a copy, please contact the editor, Kate Waller.
PROGRAMS FOR UPCOMING MEETINGS:
Vic Laubach will be the speaker at our November meeting. Vic grew up in central Pennsylvania and discovered birding as a young teen. He received a BS in Biology from Penn State University. He did his graduate research at the NIH in Bethesda, MD, and received a PhD in Genetics from George Washington University. In 1996 he began working at the University of Virginia and, earlier this year, retired as Professor Emeritus in the Department of Surgery. He continues part-time in directing a research laboratory that studies lung injury after transplantation. He and his wife moved to Waynesboro in 2002 where they reside today. Currently, Vic spends a lot of time birding in the Shenandoah Valley and beyond, and he is also busy as Vice-President of the Augusta Bird Club and Coordinator of the Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch. He loves the camaraderie of birding and hawk watching, the challenge of finding rare sightings, outdoor photography, and hiking. Vic’s talk, titled Raptor Migration at Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, will include information about raptors, raptor migration, and how the hawk watch is conducted to help monitor raptor populations.
The club will not meet in December. Our meetings will resume in January.