Workshops & Presentations
WBZ News Radio, Nightside with Dan Rae
Interview with Norman Smith and Shawn Carey.
Topic: Hawkwatching in Massachusetts and New England.
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South Shore Natural Science Center
48 Jacobs Lane
Norwell, MA 02061
781-659-2559
Photo Exhibit
Dates: February 8, to Mach 2, 2012
Photographing Birds and Other Wildlife in Massachusetts
Date: Thursday February 23, 2012
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Presented by Shawn Carey of Migration Productions and Photography Instructor
Photographing birds and other wildlife has become increasingly popular over the last ten years with vast the improvements in digital technology. Challenges still include such questions as where, when, and how do you photograph birds? Using his exhibit in Vine Hall as examples, Shawn will discuss these topics as well as the equipment needed (camera, computer and software) and tricks of the trade. He will introduce three Mass Audubon properties which have observation or photo blinds to assist in seeing and photographing birds and other wildlife. All of this along with some interesting stories and lots of give and take with the audience will provide for a lively gathering.
Date: Monday April 9, 2012
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Springfield Science Museum
Tolman Wing
| Birds and other wildlife on the Gulf Coast of Florida (Tampa to Naples) |
| The Gulf Coast of Florida has many good locations for viewing and photographing birds and other wildlife. Some that are better known then others but all worth a visit for any birder or photographer that plans to be on the Gulf Coast. For this presentation we will talk about some of the "well known" places like Fort DeSoto, Venice Rookery and 'Ding' Darling National Wildlife Refuge plus some of the lesser known but yet very nice spots such as Venice Landfill, Myakka River State Park, Carlton Reserve and Bunch Beach just to name a few. We will talk about where the best spots at each of these locations and what can be expected when you arrive. Finally when you finish a long day of birding or photographing we all need a good place to sit down and eat, I have some very good recommendations to pass along. So pack your sun screen, tripod and beach shoes for a trip down the Gulf Coast as we look at Spoonbills, Limpkins, gators and Scrub Jays. |
20th Annual
Mass Audubon Birders Meeting
Date: Saturday March 3, 2012
Time: 8:30 AM
Location: Bentley University, Waltham, MA
A documentary by Shawn Carey and Jim Grady
Each year millions of shorebirds make an amazing round-trip journey between the Northern and Southern hemispheres. Migration Productions, newest video "Epic Journeys" looks at three shorebird species – Red Knot, Piping Plover, and Semipalmated Sandpiper – and the challenges these species face during each of their monumental annual treks.
In spring Red Knots travel from south to north, stopping and concentrating by the thousands in the Delaware Bay area in New Jersey where they fuel up on Horseshoe Crab eggs in order to complete their long final flight to the Arctic. The film examines how the decline in Horseshoe Crab populations has impacted the very survival of this species.
The cute and perky Piping Plover is a species that breeds on beaches in coastal communities in Massachusetts and is currently surviving despite heavy skunk and fox predation and invasions by beach buggies in the 1980's to the point where their breeding numbers fell to record low numbers. "Epic Journeys” shows how improved beach management programs in Massachusetts since 1992 have aided the plover’s numbers to increase and come back in the last 20 years.
Finally “Epic Jouneys” features Semipalmated Sandpipers that gather in massive and dramatic numbers in New Brunswick’s Bay of Fundy in Canada before taking wing and flying 3000 thousand miles southward to South America.
Our film asks burning questions: What is being done to help protect these shorebirds and their habitat? How can the public help with their conservation? And where can one go to best see each of these species en-route to their destinations?