"Please join us January 22 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Deer Haven Nature Center 4183 Liberty Road Delaware Ohio 43015. Doors open at 6:30 PM and programs begin at 7:00 PM and are followed by reports of local bird sightings and socializing". Dr. Angelika Nelson will present about Hog Island in her talk, "Escape to the Island". Do you ever dream about going to summer camp again? And combining this with your passion for bird-watching? Hog Island in Maine is the place to go! Since 1936, birding and environmental education sessions have inspired thousands of campers to become better stewards of their environment and share their love for nature. The camp sessions vary in focus from Joy of Birding, Field Ornithology, and Raptor Rapture to Arts and Birding. You may have heard of Hog Island in connection with the successful seabird restoration program <http://projectpuffin.audubon.org/> Project Puffin. Steve Kress raised the first translocated pufflings right on the island before releasing them to the nearby island of Eastern Egg rock. Join us for a visual and aural escape to the island, learn about being a summer camper as an adult, and seabird restoration. You may leave as a friend of Hog Island. Dr Angelika Nelson is the curator of the <https://blb.osu.edu/> Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics at the <https://mbd.osu.edu/> Museum of Biological Diversity at The Ohio State University. She earned her MS at the University of Vienna in her home country of Austria and her PhD at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. As a behavioral ecologist, her research focuses on acoustic communication in birds, recently on song dialects in the white-crowned sparrow along the Pacific Northwest coast. She teaches Introduction to Ornithology and advises the student Ornithology Club at The Ohio State University. Angelika has been an instructor for various summer programs on Hog Island since 2014. In her free time, she enjoys traveling with her husband Doug, spending time in nature, bird-watching, horseback riding and taking her dog Inga for walks. https://columbusaudubon.org/event/delaware-county-bird-club-escape-to-the-is land/ <http://www.preservationparks.com/parks-facilities/parks/deer-haven-preserve /> http://www.preservationparks.com/parks-facilities/parks/deer-haven-preserve/ ______________________________________________________________________ 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]