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Spreading our wings –
Thank you to all our members and community friends for the successful Spreading Our Wings Campaign. As of this writing, we have surpassed our original goal of $5,000 with funds raised now at $6,956. The Audio Visual equipment has now been ordered. The installation will happen by the end of the month. A dedicated laptop has also been ordered which was not in our original plan. Moving forward additional funds will be used to acquire black-out curtains for the presentation room. Folks can remember our Sunday afternoon presentations of summers past and controlling sunlight in the room will be greatly appreciated. Club volunteers have been busy cleaning and painting on the main exhibit floor and we look forward to the time we can open up with new exhibits and programs.
Work also continues on the basement exhibit area and Geology Division. all in all an exciting time as we await a grand reopening as soon as it is safe for us all to join together.
Where are we going from here? First we will continue to have a limited number of in-person field trips with a maximum of 8 people wearing masks, not carpooling, and not sharing optical equipment etc. The annual Christmas Bird Count will be held on December 19th with some new Covid-19 restrictions and forgoing the breakfast gathering and evening tally. A virtual tally will take place in the evening and all are invited to join us for some holiday stories and cheer. More on that in a future post.
Athol Bird and Nature Club came out early in embracing the Zoom webinar format buoyed by a grant from the New England Grassroots Environmental Foundation. The webinar series has been a huge success reaching up to one hundred participants on more than one occasion. We have heard from many folks that they appreciate hearing from energetic high-quality scientists and naturalists from the comfort of their own homes. So with this in mind how do we incorporate this enthusiastic support in a post-pandemic world? The ABNC Board has decided to remake our meeting room into a digital studio. With your help, we will invest in a new permanently mounted projector, speakers, and wireless microphones. This coupled with a good laptop will allow us to continue webinars as we are doing now, but in the future to allow a hybrid of in-person speakers and audience and able to stream the webinars live across to our remote members.
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ABNC is excited to update our audio-visual equipment to allow for improved, high-quality in-house presentations and an extended offering of virtual events. We appreciate your generous help in making this happen!
