Teaming research with education to promote bird conservation

BSBO Business Alliance Partners


Thank you to the
following businesses
for supporting the Observatory and helping to promote  birding in the Lake Erie Shores and Island Region!


Kaufman Field Guides
Oak Harbor, Ohio


The Garden Restaurant
Port Clinton, Ohio
 
OurGuest Inn
& Suites

Port Clinton, Ohio

Leica Sport Optics

Time & Optics LTD. Millersburg, Ohio

Great Lakes Popcorn Co
Port Clinton, Ohio


Mango Mama's
Port Clinton, Ohio


Split Winds Gallery
Port Clinton, Ohio

Jet Express
Port Clinton Ohio

Second Street Diner
Port Clinton, Ohio

Nikon Sport Optics

African Safari
Wildlife Park
Port Clinton, Ohio

Island House
 Resort Hotel
Port Clinton, Ohio

McCarthy's
Restaurant & Pub
Port Clinton, Ohio

Tropical Birding
Quito, Ecuador

PROGRAM
INFORMATION


 


Ohio Young Birders Club
CROWN POINT BIOBLITZ
July 7, 2007

Crown Point Farm and Education Center
Bath, Ohio

 
 

Some of the OYBC group started Friday evening looking for dragonflies.

 
And after dark we set up a light and a sheet to attract moths and insects.
 
Crane Fly
 
 
 
Larry Rosche, our dragonfly expert, showing the group a dragonfly.
 
Beaverpond Baskettail
 
Attendee, Robin Tener and volunteer, Lisa Chapman at
the registration table.
 
Crown Point's Executive Director, Sr. Joanne Buckman, saying a few words to the
Bioblitz attendees.
 
A group off to find butterflies and amphibians.
 
 
Todd Blackledge, our spider expert, showing Bianca and Darrick a spider.
 
 
Volunteers Dave Lewis and Larry Richardson
 
 
Amy & Sarah Winnicki botanizing with Verna Vander Kooi and Jim McCormac
 
 
Volunteer recorder Laurie Boylan with Larry Richardson and Jim McCormac
 
This group was inventorying the flora in the meadow.
 
Ian Adams, environmental photographer, and Jim McCormac, ODNR Ornithologist, looking at an Azure Bluet.
 
By noon everyone had worked up an appetite and looked
forward to sitting in the shade.
 
Everything was very dry, and only one garter snake was found.
 
 
Kathy Shafer, Ethan Kistler, Phil Chaon, Delores Cole, and Amy Berens winding down
in the shade
 
 
Bianca Davis, Kenn & Kim Kaufman and Darrick Geiser thanking the Crown Point staff for a wonderful day.
 
More photos coming soon!
 

 


Last updated on Friday, June 12, 2009

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Black Swamp Bird Observatory
13551 W. State Route 2
Oak Harbor,, Ohio 43449
419 898-4070
We are located at the entrance to Magee Marsh Wildlife Area

Black Swamp Bird Observatory is a 501(C)3 organization dedicated
 to avian research and education to promote bird conservation.