PLEASE NOTE the NEW time format! Please join us as Columbus Audubon welcomes Bill Thompson III as he walks us through still more Perils and Pitfalls of Birding! Bill Thompson III has been birding for four decades and in that time he has had some-ummm-unusual experiences, met some unusual people, and learned a great many lessons (the hard way) about birding and human nature. In this completely new take on his wildly popular "Perils & Pitfalls" talk Bill tells tales of birds, birders, and the amazing things that happen when you're out there watching. As has been his standing policy, if you don't laugh at least once during this talk, Bill will clean the binoculars of everyone present. Bill Thompson III (or BT3 as he is better known) is a lifelong birder, the co-publisher of Bird Watcher's Digest (BWD), and the author of many books on birds and nature. He's been on the editorial team of BWD since May of 1988, and during that time has watched birds in 49 U.S. states (still missing Hawaii) and more than 30 countries. Bill writes the Bill of the Birds blog and creates and hosts a podcast called This Birding Life which gets more than 750,000 episode downloads annually. He is the president and a founding board member of The Ohio Ornithological Society, and also serves on the board of directors for the Roger Tory Peterson Institute. He is devoted to introducing kids to nature and birding and considers his Young Birder's Guide to Birds of North America to be his proudest professional achievement. Bill lives on a farm in southeastern Ohio with his wife, Julie Zickefoose, and their two children, Phoebe and Liam. In his spare time, Bill writes music and performs with his country-rock band The Rain Crows. His favorite North American bird is the red-headed woodpecker. Conservation Spotlight - Audubon at Home Hear from Amy Boyd, Director of Outreach and Engagement at the Grange Insurance Audubon Center about this new and exciting program. Program topics included important backyard conservation practices, and garden design, citizen science, lawn care, rain gardens, native plants, floral design with natives, nest boxes, bird feeding, composting, pollinators, permaculture, backyard birds, edible natives and more! Learn how you can be involved in creating and maintaining habitat in your backyard. 6:45 - 7:00 pm: Social time, light refreshments and back by special request for the third year, the Bird Quiz table so try your skills for a special prize! 7:00 - 7:15 pm: Announcements 7:15 - 7:30 pm: Conservation Spotlight 7:30 - 9:00 pm: Main program, door prizes Columbus Audubon programs are free and open to the public. Programs are held at the Grange Insurance Audubon Center at 505 West Whittier Street, 43215, in the Scioto-Audubon Metro Park on the Whittier Peninsula. Special announcement: Columbus Audubon's fifth Art for Audubon, will be held on Sunday, September 27, at the Columbus Zoo from 4:00 to 7:00 pm. This special fundraising event is one of the premier fine art auctions supporting conservation and nature education in central Ohio. It features outstanding nature art by nationally, regionally, and locally known artists working in a variety of media. You can <http://columbusaudubon.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&layout =edit&id=1479> register or take advantage of a sponsorship opportunity online now! Art for Audubon is open to both Columbus Audubon members and the general public. Admission is $65 for individuals or $100 per couple, and both individual and business sponsorship opportunities are available. Click <http://columbusaudubon.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&layout =edit&id=1479> here to <http://columbusaudubon.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&layout =edit&id=1479> register or become a sponsor now. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]