Talk tomorrow night in Fort Collins

[DAVID A LEATHERMAN]

COBIRDERS,

To those who might be interested, my friend Janeal Thompson and I are giving a talk to the Fort Collins Audubon Society (FCAS) tomorrow night at the Fort Collins Senior Center at 7pm.  The topic is spiders.  Janeal, an avid birder in Lamar whom many of you know, has been smitten by spider photography the last few years.  When the program person at FCAS asked me about doing a program this year, I decided it was time to show off Janeal's photographs.  We are NOT spider experts but have gone to school on arachnids putting this together.  I put a little bit about birds eating spiders in the talk and I suspect spiders are a very underappreciated, underestimated part of bird diets.  Most of them are just so darn small, documentation of birds eating spiders is quite difficult.

So far, the event has not been cancelled.  If you are interested in the subject, please feel free to attend.  We will have a live tarantula available for spider therapy.  Janeal's 9-year old granddaughter who won last fall's statewide "11th Annual How Big Is Your Cat Faced Spider Contest" will be in attendance with her trophy.  It should be fun.

In the event the Senior Center (1200 Raintree Drive, which is one block nw of the intersection of S Shields and W Drake in sw Fort Collins) issues a cancellation of events, watch COBIRDS tomorrow.  If you don't see anything, it is a "GO".

Dave Leatherman

Fort Collins 

[John Shenot]

After considerable debate among the Board of Directors of Fort Collins Audubon Society, we have decided to proceed with our monthly chapter meeting tonight as planned. We made this decision after talking to City of Fort Collins staff at the site, and reviewing information from the Larimer County Health Department.

If you have any concerns, please stay home. If you or anyone you've been in contact with in the last two weeks are showing ANY cold or flu-like symptoms, please stay home. If those caveats don't apply we hope to see you tonight for a fun event with Dave Leatherman and Janeal Thompson talking about spiders.

John Shenot

President, Fort Collins Audubon Society