Spring Ahead with a Friends Challenge!

Your May Friends Update

From the Executive Director

Join our Friends Challenge!

Dear friend of Bird Conservancy,

Are you up for some birding in the company of others, small groups of course, and helping broaden support for bird conservation—along with a little friendly competition mixed in? Come make your Friends level support contagious and help us grow our flock.

We have just the CONTEST for you!

OUR CHALLENGE:

MAKING NEW FRIENDS!

Between now and August 30, we are asking YOU—our community of Friends-level supporters—to share your love of birds and expand our circle of support! The Friend who introduces the most people who become Friends between now and August 30^th wins a special private guided bird walk with Arvind Panjabi in Fort Collins on a date of your choice between Sept. 8^th and 11th!

To help get you and your potential new Friends excited, we are offering several exclusive birding trips in the coming months (see dates below). Join us and bring others into our flock with these special opportunities. You can spend time with our board of directors as well as staff, learn about our important work and have fun birding.

"BRING A FRIEND" BIRDING ADVENTURES

We'll start early each day, meeting at the Environmental Learning Center at Barr Lake State Park (14500 Lark Bunting Lane) at 8:00 AM.

Guests can enjoy coffee and snacks while learning more about Bird Conservancy's Friends program and our work. We will add leaders to accommodate interests to ensure we keep group size small. We are also providing the day after the publicized date as a weather back up day. PLEASE REGISTER at least 5 days out from the official trip day.

TRIP 1:

SATURDAY, MAY 15

Birding at Barr Lake

with Bird Conservancy Board Member and birding-by-ear expert Nathan Pieplow, Tyler Cash (Camp and Community Coordinator) and Tammy VerCauteren (Executive Director)

TRIP 2:

SATURDAY, JUNE 5

Birding at Barr Lake

with Eric Lane, Board Chair for Bird Conservancy, Colin Woolley (Banding Program Coordinator) and Tammy VerCauteren (Executive Director)

TRIP 3:

SATURDAY, AUG. 28

Visit to Barr Lake

Bird Banding Station

during fall migration along with Bird Conservancy Board Member Garth Spellman and Meredith McBurney (Biologist) and Sherry Nickolaus (Education Director

Please note: to ensure safety during COVID, all activities will be outdoors and groups kept small (6-8 persons) with physical distancing observed. Space is limited!

RESERVE YOUR SPOT!

Inspiring our Challenge:

Joe Roller

1945-2020

Our Friends Challenge was inspired by our friend Joe Roller, who was an ardent champion of Bird Conservancy of the Rockies for well over a decade. He was a tireless ambassador, raising awareness about birds and fostering that passion in everyone he met. Joe personally introduced many Friends to our organization, bringing them along for birding experiences with our staff and connecting them to our mission and work. His infectious enthusiasm for birds demonstrates perfectly how one person can make a tremendous difference. We miss him dearly, but know that his spirit lives-on in our community of like-minded supporters.

Joe Roller places engraved "Bricks for Birds" at our Environmental Learning Center in Brighton, CO during our 25th Anniversary celebration in 2013. Photo by Greg Levandoski.

With Joe providing inspiration, will you help us reach our goal to add

15 new Friends as part of the Friends Challenge?!

Can't join us for birding at Barr Lake?

We hope you'll feel inspired, regardless of location, to connect others to Bird Conservancy in other ways—including CFO's Colorado Birding Challenge (info below) or attending one of our many virtual and in-person programs. Visit our website for the latest stories about our work and opportunities to get involved.

Gratefully,

Tammy VerCauteren

Executive Director

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