It will be a great day in Madera Canyon, especially if you are there.  Click on the poster for the full schedule and make plans to participate.

• Friends old and new
• A variety of bird walks, this year featuring  noted professional guides Laurens Halsey, Jeff Babson, Melody Kehl and Sally Johnsen
• Birding activities for children
• Displays and friends from: 
• Tucson Audubon Society
• Tucson Herpetological Society
• Arizona Native Plant Society
• Friends of Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge
• Hummingbird Monitoring Network
• Save the Scenic Santa Ritas
• United States Forest Service.
• Friends of Madera Canyon
• Lunch from Outlaw BBQ
• Feeder bird watch at Madera Kubo B&B , Chuparosa Inn and Santa Rita Lodge 

 

   

People from all over the world travel
to Madera Canyon to be guided by
Laurens, Jeff, Melody and Sally.

Don't allow this great opportunity to slip by you. Advance registration is required for their bird walks as numbers are limited.

Click on the poster for schedule and registration information.

George Cottay photo used with permission

Do you love hummingbirds? Will you lend them a helping hand? The Hummingbird Monitoring Network is a science-based, project driven, non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of hummingbird diversity. They are enlisting volunteers to help at the monitoring site in Florida Canyon at the Santa Rita Experimental Range Station Work Center.

The Hummingbird Monitoring Network needs people to help with changing out the hummingbird feeders at the site. You would also have the opportunity to observe hummingbirds up close during a banding session.

Please contact Elissa Fazio, HMN Volunteer/Outreach Coordinator at esquared@qwestoffice.net or by phone at (520) 326-1449 (Home) or (520) 869-6385 (Mobile) for more information. FOMC members and HMN volunteers George West, Willem and Johanna Van Kempen, and George and Ann Cottay can also answer your questions.  George West is one of the network's scientist founders.

 

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Voting Reports
Thank you to all who returned board election and bylaw modification ballots. All three board nominees were elected: Judy Thoreson, Carol Lambert, and Dita-Erika Hagen.  Though totals for the change in approved fund deposit funds and the addition of an indemnity clause are not yet official, they are both receiving almost universally positive support.

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Here are some interesting links to IMBD participating organizations and people:

  Share Monsoon Flowers

Tom Vezo photo used with permission.

Winter moisture seems to have been too scant and early for a profusion of flowers. When monsoon rains arrive we may yet enjoy outstanding displays  in and near the canyon.  If you would like to share what you are seeing with other Madera Canyon lovers, send your pictures to fomcphotos@gmail.com. 

If our collection of pictures reaches critical mass we will be sending a special Flowers edition of this newsletter.