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Hilton Pond 07/22/02 (Hummers & GLOBE)
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu (CarolinaBirds)
- Subject: Hilton Pond 07/22/02 (Hummers & GLOBE)
- From: BILL HILTON JRThe Piedmont Naturalist <hilton@hiltonpond.org>
- Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 12:20:26 -0400
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
HI . . .
We've been slowed down a bit in posting our regular photo essays to
the Web site for Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History, but
after reading this week's installment we hope you'll agree we had a
good excuse.
Our main nature education outreach initiative--"Operation RubyThroat:
The Hummingbird Project"--is now affiliated with The GLOBE Program,
and the National Science Foundation has just awarded Hilton Pond
Center a major grant of $180,000 to involve students and teachers in
ten countries in hummingbird research.
Needless to say, we're pretty excited and have posted an
account--along with several close-up photos of hummingbirds--to "This
Week at Hilton Pond" for the long week of 22-31 August 2002. Just
click on http://www.hiltonpond.org/ThisWeek020722.html.
We've included some suggestions for how YOU can help Operation
RubyThroat teach young people about how to study hummingbirds and
protect hummer habitat.
There's also our usual list of newly banded birds, plus a few that
have returned from previous years.
Happy Nature Watching!
BILL
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BILL HILTON JR., Executive Director
Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History
1432 DeVinney Road, York, South Carolina 29745 USA
hilton@hiltonpond.org, (803) 684-5852, eFax: (503) 218-0845
The mission of Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History is "to
conserve plants, animals, and other natural components of the
Piedmont Region of the eastern United States through observation,
scientific study, and education for students of all ages." Please
visit our web sites (courtesy of Comporium.net) at
http://www.hiltonpond.org and
http://www.rubythroat.org .
"Never trust a person too lazy to get up for sunrise or too busy to
watch the sunset." BHjr.