The Summer Board Meeting will be at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 22, 2017, at the Yew Mountain Center in Hillsboro, WV. All members are welcome to come, listen, discuss, be in the drawing for the door prize, and otherwise fully participate. Only Board members can make motions and vote. If you want to come, contact Cindy Ellis at cdellis@wildblue.net for directions. There are some overnight accommodations. Beth Little (blittle@citynet.net) knows about that.
As an added bonus, the meeting will be held at the Yew Mountain Center, which is fun to visit even if there is no meeting. The Yew Mountain Center was profiled in the June, 2016, issue of The Highlands Voice. To learn more about it, please visit www.yewmountain.org.
But there’s more: birding opportunities. On a recent visit the following birds were spotted:
Canada Goose
Mourning Dove
Turkey Vulture
Redtailed Hawk
Yellowbilled Cuckoo
Blackbilled Cuckoo
Redbellied Woodpecker
Yellowbellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern WoodPewee
Acadian Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Blueheaded Vireo
Redeyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Blackcapped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Whitebreasted Nuthatch
House Wren
Carolina Wren
Eastern Bluebird
Veery
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Cedar Waxwing
American Goldfinch
Ovenbird
Wormeating Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Bluewinged Warbler
Vermivora sp.
Blackandwhite Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
American Redstart
Cerulean Warbler
Northern Parula
Blackburnian Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Chestnutsided Warbler
Yellowrumped Warbler
Blackthroated Green Warbler
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Scarlet Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Rosebreasted Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Redwinged Blackbird
Baltimore Oriole
Orchard Oriole
Bird list compiled by Casey Rucker, a veteran and contributing birder, compiler of quarterly “Field Notes” for the journal of the Brooks Bird Club, and president of The Friends of the 500th, a citizen support group for the Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge.