Date: 8/15/25 4:56 am From: Brian Rusnica <velocicrafter...> Subject: [MASSBIRD] Eastern Mass Hawk Watch Annual Meeting: IN PERSON! Friday Sept 5th 2025, 7pm at Middlesex Community College, Bedford Campus. Public Invited!
The 2025 Eastern Mass Hawk Watch annual meeting will be Friday, September
5th at 7pm. *PLEASE NOTE* our new location for 2025: we will gather at
Middlesex Community College in Bedford, MA. The meeting will take place in
the Cafe East section of the Campus Center. Please see a detailed campus
map on our website here: https://massbird.org/emhw/annual-meeting/
We'd like to extend the invitation to our meeting to the public and welcome
all who are interested in learning more about hawkwatching and our
organization. The annual meeting is the traditional kick-off to the Fall
hawkwatching season in Massachusetts - it won't be long before the first
kettles of Broad-wings gather over the skies of New England!
Our keynote speaker this year is Ben Nickley from The Berkshire Bird
Observatory. Ben will present on Berkshire Bird Observatory’s efforts to
recover American Kestrel populations in the Berkshires through their
American Kestrel Nest Box Project. Though initially a side-project,
bringing Kestels back has become central to BBO’s conservation efforts in
the region, as these extraordinary pocket falcons deserve full commitment.
Considered a species of greatest conservation need in MA, Kestrels have
unfortunately experienced range-wide declines with acute declines across
the Northeast. Ben will present on the development of BBO’s Kestrel trail
and the early success of the project.
The meeting is free and open to the public (donations appreciated) and will
take place in the auditorium. A social hour with beverages, appetizers and
snacks starts at 6pm, followed at 7pm by a brief business meeting and the
keynote presentation. The business meeting will review EMHW Watch Sites and
how you can visit or participate this upcoming migration season! We’ll also
have the return of our famous raffle, including many raptor-related and
birding items and some fantastic photography. Join us for a great evening!
If you are interested in contributing raffle items, refreshments, or
helping EMHW with the meeting, please let us know at
<e.masshawkwatch...> and we'll be in contact!
For complete information, including directions to the location in Bedford
(plenty of free parking), visit the Eastern Mass Hawk Watch web site at
massbird.org/EMHW.
EMHW's Bonfire T-Shirt campaign is running at https://www.bonfire.com/emhw if you'd like to support our raptor conservation efforts and order a
t-shirt. We've partnered with *Bonfire* as a unique solution that allows
EMHW to support a wide variety of size, color and garment options.
