January Meeting Minutes

Cayuga Bird Club, January 11, 2016

President Jody Enck called the meeting to order at 7:30.  He thanked Lori Abbott, Colleen Richards, and Suan Yong for bringing cookies.

The next meeting will be on February 8. The speaker that evening will be Eduardo Iñigo-Elias speaking about the birds of Cuba.

Gladys Birdsall will lead an all day field trip to Sodus Bay on January 16.  Meet at the lab at 8 am.

There will be a raptor tour on January 16 at Montezuma. 70 eagles were counted there during the winter raptor survey.

There will be a raptor survey for Seneca County on Thursday, January 14.  If interested, meet at the Trumansburg Library at 3:30.

Donna  Scott passed out an invitation to the opening of the upcoming exhibit of photographs of Marie Read at the Lansing Library on March 9, 6-8 pm.

Susan Danskin, Treasurer, has sent out tax receipts to club members.

Susan Danskin read the list of the birds of the Cayuga Basin.

Kevin McGowan was the host for the annual Share Your Photos night.  Members who presented photographs and stories were Jody Enck, Wes Blauvelt, Suan Yong, John Confer, Susan Henderson, Andre LaClair, Diane Morton, Carl Steckler, Mark Chao, Sandy Wold, Ton Schat, Sarah Blodgett, Paul Anderson, Marie Read, Kevin McGowan, and LeeAnn vanLeer.

Respectfully submitted,

Becky Hansen, Recording Secretary