[CT Birds] COA Annual Meeting (Saturday, March 20, 2010)

[Linda & Steve Broker]

Birders:

Mark your calendars for the 26th Annual Meeting of the Connecticut  
Ornithological Association, which is being held on Saturday, March 20  
at Chapman Hall, Middlesex Community College, Middletown, CT.  The  
COA Annual Meeting will prove to be one of the outstanding birding  
events of the year.  The meeting features the following speakers:   
Alan Brush, on color and plumage in birds; Olivia Gentile, "Birding  
Planet Earth:  The Passion and Adventrues of Phoebe Snetsinger";  
Margaret Rubega, on chimney swifts in Connecticut; Greg Hanisek and  
Mark Szantyr, "The Art and Science of Rare Bird Identification".

The Annual Meeting also features the COA marketplace, the COA raffle  
and silent auction, the 2010 Mabel Osgood Wright Award and the 2010  
Betty Kleiner Memorial Award.  The Registration Form for the meeting  
(with a line for signing up for the buffet lunch) is available at the  
COA website, www.ctbirding.org.  Information on 2010 COA membership  
renewals and new memberships also is available at the COA website.

Please support The Connecticut Ornithological Association, which  
brings you this listserv.

Steve Broker (Cheshire)
Secretary, COA