[cobirds] Fwd: 2 Spots Opened on Cheyenne Bottoms and Quevira trip

Brought to you by Boulder County Audubon.  This popular series of field trips entitled, "Interludes with Nature", features the very best leaders taking participants to special places.  It is a major fundraiser for BCAS and the proceeds send budding teen naturalists to either the superb National Audubon Society's Hog Island Field Camp or to the American Birding Association's, Rocky Mountain National Park Birding Camp.  This year we have awarded 3 scholarships to outstanding youth.  

We are requiring full payment within 8 days of emailing me for a reservation:  piombino.pam@gmail.com.  If I do not receive payment within the 8 days, your name will be put on the Wait List. If you have to cancel, there will be a $20.00 fee imposed. If you cancel less than three weeks before the event, the money will only be refunded if the spot can be filled, but there will still be a $20.00 fee. Please consider it a donation for the fine work that Boulder County Audubon does and how much work it is to arrange these trips and keep track of the attendees.  Once you make a reservation, please, please get the pertinent information on your calendar to keep track of which trip(s) you have asked to participate in.

 

Kansas Odyssey:  Cheyenne Bottoms and Quevira

 

National Wildlife Refuges

Carl Starace

 

Date:  Fri.-Sun., April 21-23 2017

2 SPOTS LEFT: Limited to 11 people in three cars

Cost:  $100 a person

 

Join us for this long weekend trip to two of the United States most breathtaking, vast and productive interior marshes.  Cheyenne Bottoms is considered the most important shorebird migration stopover, hosting up to 90% of the North American waders in this 41,000 acre refuge.  You will also find many passerines of eastern and western species in the refuge's hardwood forests.

 

Quivira, which is 20 miles away, is over 22,000 acres of prairie grass, saltwater marshes, sand dunes and timber.  Over half a million birds stage there during their epic flights north.

 

Species to be expected:  Ibis and  Egrets, Marbled and Hudsonian Godwits, most of the Sandpipers including Upland and Stilt, endangered Piping as well as American and Golden Plovers, waterfowl and raptors, gulls and gallinules.  In fact, over 320 species of birds have been documented between these two stellar sites.

 

You will leave Friday morning from Boulder for the 6.5 hour drive to Great Bend, KS.  There will be stops along the way for lunch and birding if time allows.  Carl would like to be at Quivira that evening to witness the dramatic return of birds that have been out foraging for the day.  Saturday, you will spend the day at Cheyenne  Bottoms with huge areas to explore.  Sunday morning, it is back to Quivira, then the return trip.

 

You will be responsible for your hotel bill at approximately $80-100 per night at the Great Bend Holiday Inn Express, and all meals.  Dress appropriately for all kinds of weather and wind.

 

Carl is a longtime, passionate bird watcher and experienced field trip leader, offering seasonal outings all year for Boulder County Audubon.

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