Next BAS General Meeting
The next general meeting of the Birmingham Audubon Society will be held on the third Thursday of September, 2009. Everyone have a great summer, and we'll see you at the next meeting.

Summer Field Activities
This summer we are once again offering three field trips ... one on Saturday, June 6, 2009, to Cheaha State Park and Lake Chinnabi, one on Saturday, August 1, 2009, to Autaugaville and Prattville, and one on Saturday, Auguest 8, 2009, to Gainesville and Aliceville. ... read more

Earth Week News - Byington on Forever Wild
Pat Byington wrote the following piece for the Birmingham News prior to Earth Week.
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A couple years ago, before a meeting of the Downtown Rotary Club in Birmingham, I had the pleasure of meeting  world-renowned biologist and Alabamian E.O. Wilson and the late Bill Ireland, one of Alabama’s greatest conservationists and most generous philanthropists. ... read more

News - Part-time Education Director Sought
The Birmingham Audubon Society seeks applications for the position of Part-time Education Director. To read the job description, go here.

News - New Web Site is Under Construction
Sometime this summer BAS will inaugurate a new Web site with a very different look. This Web site has served us well, but it is not an easy site for BAS volunteers to update. The BAS Web Committee has met several times following our January Strategic Planning Retreat and has decided to try out a more modern software concept called "content management software," or CMS for short. With the new site BAS volunteers will be given login and password information, and each person will have responsibility for keeping a certain part of the site updated. The editing of text and adding images is similar to using Microsoft Word, and it does not take special computer skills.

The Web Committee is anxious to try this new technology to see if we can keep our Web site more current and interesting for site visitors. New features will be an on-line calendar, a better photo album, easy editing by BAS volunteers, and some features that will automatically pull news articles to the front page. One day this summer when you visit our Web address, you will find a new look and a site that is hopefully easier to use.

Wildlife Gardening
Interested in gardening for wildlife and enhanced habitat? Click here to download a pdf file on wildlife gardening.

About the BAS Web Site
Welcome to the Birmingham Audubon Society Web site. Please drop an e-mail to the Webmaster if any mistakes are found, or if you have suggestions. Please note! We now store the Flicker Flashes newsletter in "pdf" format. This means you will need to have Adobe Reader installed on your computer to read these files (most recently-purchased computers have this installed). If you need to install Adobe Reader, it is free on Adobe's site and can be downloaded by clicking here. Beware that the pdf files are large and will take several minutes to download if you connect to the Internet using a modem.