Meetings

Blue Grosbeaks and Indigo Buntings, from New York State Museum, “Annual report” (1902), Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Please do not attend meetings if you aren’t feeling well or are experiencing any COVID-19 symptoms.

COVID-19 Guidelines

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Please do not attend meetings if you aren’t feeling well or are experiencing any COVID-19 symptoms.

Meeting Location

Meetings are held at the Blooming Grove Senior Center at 4 Horton Road in Blooming Grove. The senior center, and its parking lot, are behind the Blooming Grove Police Department.

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Meeting Dates

General meetings of the Mearns Club are held at 7:00 pm on the second Monday of every month from September through May (except February). At club meetings, a club member or an outside speaker gives a presentation about his or her birding travels or studies.

Common Eiders, Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Photo by Karen Miller
Solitary Sandpiper, Stewart State Forest. Photo by Bill Fiero

November 13, 2023: Hudson: The Story of a River, by Scott and Denise Stoner

New York’s iconic Hudson River changes dramatically as it journeys 315 miles from the Adirondacks to New York Harbor. This photo tour highlights its development from a tiny, shallow, rocky stream to a raging freshwater river to a tidal estuary below Troy. We’ll pass its deepest and widest points; view it from boats, shorelines, and mountains; and observe the wildlife and habitats along its course as it passes through forest, field, marshland, and cities large and small. We’ll take in the dramatic human history of this great river as well, observing its role in art, transportation, and industry and pondering its fundamental role in America’s environmental movement. Join us for this special look at “the river that flows both ways.”

December 2023: Annual Club Share-a-thon

Attention artists, photographers, storytellers, poets, and musicians! Here’s your chance to share your talents—bird-themed—with the club! Rich Van Tieghem has kindly agreed to assemble member submissions for the annual share-a-thon! The deadline for submissions is early this year: November 20, 2023! The deadline has been extended to December 4, 2023. So please sort through your artwork, compositions, and photographs and submit them to Rich by the deadline!

Program Chair

Are you interested in making a presentation to our club? If so, please contact Program Chair Don Aitchison at jdaitchison73@gmail.com. A small stipend is available for nonmembers.

Red-throated Loon, George’s Island Park. Photo by Maryangela Buskey.