http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/ River Region Bird Club Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:46:16 GMT Tommy Pratt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/167 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/167 Hi All: We will have an Owl Field Trip on Thursday evening 11-12-09. Please gather in the parking lot of Hobby Lobby here in Prattville. Directions> Exit I 65 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:01:43 GMT Tommy Pratt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/166 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/166 http://www.operationmigration.org/Field_Journal.html If interested, Operation Migration 2010 of the Southeasten migration route of the Whooping Crane is Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:51:06 GMT Tommy Pratt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/165 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/165 Larry Gardella will lead a field trip at Ft. Toulouse on Saturday 09-26-09. We will gather in the main parking lot at 7:00am. There is a small entrance fee to Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:29:49 GMT Tommy Pratt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/164 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/164 Hi All: There is a small sod farm along Alabama Highway 14 just west of Autaugaville, Alabama. This afternoon there were about a dozen Horned Lark on the sod Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:22:57 GMT Tommy Pratt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/163 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/163 Please note the correction of my Goof on the name of the road . Thanks Jim. Tommy ... From: Jim Groom To: tpratt5402@... Sent: Thursday, September 03, Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:37:51 GMT Tommy Pratt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/162 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/162 Hi All: Plans are made for a shorebird trip on Saturday 09-12-09. We will meet at Dozier's Store on Wears Ferry Road at 7:00 and bird on the Dozier Sod Farm. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:51:03 GMT Tommy Pratt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/161 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/161 Hi All: Below is a post on ALBIRDS by Eric Soehren , State Land Division, reguarding a Roseate Spoonbill on Forever Wild property in Hale County. This is an Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:01:36 GMT Tommy Pratt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/160 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/160 Hi All: I would like to encourage each of you to consider making the BIG SWITCH, that is switch from buying bottled drinking water and buy yourself one or two Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:56:11 GMT Tommy Pratt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/159 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/159 Hi All: For those of you that missed our Swallow-tailed Kite trip on July 25th, Lee McElvaine has posted some excellent photos in his Facebook album of the Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:16:38 GMT Tommy Pratt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/158 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/158 Below are some pictures taken today of the Kites in the hay field. I sure hope they will hang around until our trip on Saturday. Looks like it may warm up by Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:00:23 GMT Tommy Pratt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/157 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/157 Greetings to All: Any Kite Field Trip is either a big hit or a big miss. If you have a big hit it will be an experience you will long remember; if you have a Wed, 06 May 2009 20:10:23 GMT Tommy Pratt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/156 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/156 It seems that the address I gave won't open, sorry. Go to "Alabama Nature Conservancy" Click on the "places we protect" Go to Southeast Click on "Splinter Hill Wed, 06 May 2009 16:24:36 GMT Tommy Pratt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/155 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/155 Place: Splinter Hill Bog and Preserve http://www.nature.org/images/nav_wherewework_over.gif A pitcher Plant Bog owned and protected by the Alabama Nature Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:37:53 GMT Tommy Pratt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/154 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/154 Just a brief report on the field trip to Cane Creek Canyon. 24 made the trip. Some went up on Friday. Some went with Damien Simbeck on his weekly shorebird Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:23:47 GMT Tommy Pratt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/153 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrbcmembers/message/153 Hi All: April offers some nice birding opportunities. Migration is under way. The Alabama Ornithological Society holds its Spring meeting April 17-19 at