Tweets - the Washington Ornithological Society would like to invite you to
our April meeting:

Monday, April 4th - Coastal Raptor Survey Project Dan Varland's presentation
will be on raptor surveys and falcon banding he has done with other
volunteers since 1995 on the beaches of Ocean Shores, Grayland and the Long
Beach Peninsula. He will present information on the variety and numbers of
raptors observed and on knowledge gained from the capture, color banding and
release of more than 90 peregrine falcons. Dan is wildlife biologist for
Rayonier, a private timber company with lands in western Washington. He
taught biological sciences in community colleges in Iowa and Minnesota
before moving to Washington to work for Rayonier in 1993. He has a Ph.D. in
Animal Ecology from Iowa State University and Bachelors and Masters degrees
in Zoology from Eastern Illinois University.

Monthly Membership Meetings are held the first Monday of the month (except
July, August, & September). They are held at the Center for Urban
Horticulture on the University of Washington campus, 3501 NE 41st St.,
Seattle, and are open to all. The social begins at 7:00 p.m. and the program
starts at 7:30 p.m.

Directions: From I-5 take SR520 East. Take the Montlake Blvd NE exit and
turn North towards the University of Washington campus. Stay in right lane
and drive North on Montlake Blvd (over the bridge and past the stadium).
The road will curve to the right around the Montlake Fill and merges with NE
45th St. You will quickly approach a 5 way intersection. At the
intersection turn right onto Mary Gates Memorial Drive. The Center for
Urban Horticulture is 2 long blocks down on the right. There is plenty of
free parking at the facility. We use the main meeting room, the backside of
which faces the road. The following bus routes stop at NE 45th and Mary
Gates Memorial Drive: #25, 65, & 75. A map can be found on
http://depts.washington.edu/urbhort/html/info/contact.html.

== Michael Hobbs
== Washington Ornithological Society webmaster
== http://www.wos.org
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