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Dear Auduboners,
I hope the New Year
brings about many good things for you. I joined the staff as the new state
Executive Director in mid-November. It's a privilege to lead National Audubon
Society's Maryland program into a New Year that will be marked by a
degree of change that most of us as individuals, community members, and
citizens of this precious planet have not before experienced. Working with
the staff and volunteer leadership, we will start the year by thinking and
planning our work on behalf of conservation. This year, more so than ever
before, we will be working with less financial resources available than
we've had in the past. In response, we must work hard to achieve conservation
outcomes in ways that are smarter, more targeted, creative and efficient,
because our imperative to act on behalf of bird conservation remains
urgent. Look for an upcoming report from National Audubon Society on
climate change's impacts on birds for more on this.
We will
steward the investments those of you who financially support us have made
with great care, and ask those of you who aren't able to donate to our
work, to join us in other ways. Our program here in Maryland offers
year round activities where you, and those of you with families, can join
Audubon staff and volunteers and chapters to get outside, learn about and
enjoy nature, often at no cost except your travel to get to us. From bird
walks in Baltimore's Patterson Park, to the Great Backyard Bird Count, we
want to see you soon.Please look through the links to the right to find
out what is going on in your neck of the woods.
Happy
Birding!
Jacqui Bonomo
Executive Director
Before Audubon took a winter break at he end of December,
Patterson Park Audubon Center invited people of all
ages to join them at restaurant Three-a Patterson Park Restaurant to enjoy an evening of
wreath making with greens and tree seeds from around the neighborhood and
the Eastern Shore. A great time was had by all 40+ program participants.
Food, fellowship, finding good uses for what nature provides and a good
old-fashioned get together with neighbors are attributes of every event
in the PPAC's Girls' Night Program Series
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