Ashby Village Armchair Natural History Club
Three Ashby Village families invite you to join us once a month indoors at a wheelchair accessible home to learn more about whatever natural history topics fascinate us.
The sponsoring families are Joan and Don Bernstein, Roger and Audre Newman and Tim Gordon and Donna Mickleson. Each of us has been involved with the natural world in various ways--including bird watching, leading nature walks for kids and adults, creating gardens, chasing fireflies for hours on hot summer nights, and just observing animals and plants for much of our lives. We have simply found an endless supply of interesting topics and activities in exploring the variety of phenomena that manifest in the natural world, and we would like to share this interest with other members of Ashby Village.
PLACE
Home of Joan & Don Bernstein
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Most get-togethers will be on Saturday mornings from 10 AM to noon, with optional continuation of our discussions until 1 or 1:30 if you bring your own lunch.
Sparkling water and hot tea (black and herbal) provided; other drinks BYO.
JANUARY 19, 2013:
Audre and Roger Newman will speak and show us photos of the six-week trip to Peru they will have just returned from. On their trip, they will explore the North West corner of the country known as the Tumbesian Region. Tumbes has a warm and humid tropical climate in the north and center of its region and a dry tropical or tropical savanna climate in the south. One of their objectives in going there is to see the Marvelous Spatuletail, a famously decorated endemic hummingbird. Their talk will emphasize the natural history aspects of their adventures. They also plan to visit many archeological sites, there and elsewhere in Peru; Roger is a retired professor of anthropology, and he will surely be glad to tell you about this as well if you ask (and we will definitely provide this opportunity if you stay afterward with your lunch).
In addition to reading and discussing our thoughts about a wide range of your other favorite natural history books, future topics for the may include guest speakers --such as a docent from the Tilden Native Plant Botanical Gardens (one of whom is a cousin), who can teach us how to “key” plant species we see around our own neighborhoods; or we can spend a morning examining the microorganisms in a drop of Lake Anza water.
Come and share what interests you!