Marie Read, professional nature photographer, will discuss the Birds of Mono Lake California and show photos from her collection.  Widely published, Marie specializes in images of birds and bird behavior. Meetings are open to the public.  The talk will include … Continue reading →

Our December Member Meeting is cancelled due to the current Winter Storm Warning. If you are a member who was planning on showing photos tonight, please email us at bcnatclub@gmail.com with one or two photos and we'll post them here on … Continue reading →

Whitebark pine and Clark’s Nutcrackers have a fascinating relationship: the trees provide rich, fatty seeds, and the birds “plant” the trees’ seeds —a single bird may hide up to 98,000 seeds in a year. The food caches help the birds … Continue reading →

Dylan Horvath will discuss the Caspian Terns of Oregon. He will share stories about his experience in Caspian Tern research in the Columbia River Estuary in the Northwest (Oregon/Washington).  Dylan lived on East Sand Island for 4 months monitoring and guarding the … Continue reading →

Gardening for butterflies and moths (i.e., leps) is more than planting nectar sources for adults. Learn how you can assist them in all stages of their lifecycle as well as distinguish them from pests, so that all of us can … Continue reading →

In 2005 Dolores Elliott traveled to Kenya with an Iroquois beadworker to help him revive beadwork among several groups in Kenya. While there she made friends with a Maasai man whose dream it was to start a safari company. In … Continue reading →

In her talk, Kim relates her love of science, nature, and birds to the current climate crisis and its implications for biodiversity.  She shares her personal response to the climate crisis from her perspective as a parent, a birder, and … Continue reading →

Nick Donnelly, PhD, Binghamton University professor and club member, will talk about dragonflies.

As a keystone species and mast-producing canopy tree, the loss of the American chestnut from the Eastern US was an ecological and economic disaster for the region more than a hundred years ago. This native species, once classified as functionally extinct, is now poised to … Continue reading →

Teri Franzen is passionate about observing and photographing wildlife on its terms, wild, unaltered and undisturbed.  She has been a wildlife photographer since 2012 after having met up with a Northern Goshawk on her very first outing. Since then she's photographed mammals … Continue reading →