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T H E C H I C K A D E E 2015 - 16 CALENDAR PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE (See inside for details) Do you remember the Christmas count- November 1 through March 31, 2016 NHBC 23rd Annual downs? Winter Feeder Survey “Only 19 shopping days left!” Wednesday, December 2, 2015, 8:00 am First Wednesday These reminders would fill parents with Walk: Hammonasset State Park, Madison short-breathed anxiety and children in tethered pandemonium caused by their Tuesday, December 8, 7:00 pm Birds in Words – H Is for anticipation. Hawk by Helen MacDonald As Birders we have our own countdown. We are less than a month from the Thursday, December 10, 2015, 7:00 pm Brad Winn - Meeting birders’ holiday season. The Audubon Christmas Bird Count. Shorebirds Halfway: Managing Hemispheric Travelers It’s exciting. The compilers and sector captains pull it off year after year without an anxious grimace. And I think participants Sunday, December 13, 2015, 8:00 A.M. Moodus Reservoir, contain their excitement under a cool veneer. Bashan Lake, Moodus/East Haddam area I love metaphors and reflect often about symbols and meaning. Saturday, December 19, 2015 116th Annual New Haven The Christmas story has the holy family traveling home to be Christmas Bird Count counted in a census. Our modern day holiday traditions have family and friends travelling to get together for their own census. Wednesday, January 6, 2016, 8:00 am First Wednesday Walk: As families get together they take a count of who is present Harkness State Park, Waterford and who is missing.
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