At 7:00 PM on Monday April 13, 2015, Dr. Pamela Hunt, a Senior  
Biologist in Avian Conservation with New Hampshire Audubon, is to  
speak on "Birding with Sacagawea" in the Mayer Room of the Howe  
Library in Hanover, NH. This program, cosponsored by the Mascoma  
Chapter of NH Audubon and the Hanover Conservancy, is free and open to  
the public. This event was originally scheduled for last December but  
had to be postponed because of wintery weather.

Dr. Hunt's illustrated talk will cover her extensive travels in the  
footsteps of Sacagawea and the famous Lewis and Clark exploratory  
expedition to the Pacific Northwest. That remarkable journey came at a  
time when strikingly distinctive kinds of birds new to science could  
be discovered on the North American continent. Leaders Lewis and Clark  
are honored in the names of Lewis's Woodpecker and Clark's Nutcracker,  
bird species first described as a result of their efforts. Pam Hunt  
has twice traveled their route, most recently in the spring of 2013,  
and will compare how the landscape and wildlife have changed from  
their time to the present.

Pam Hunt holds degrees from Cornell, University of Montana, and  
Dartmouth, and was formerly an adjunct faculty member at Colby-Sawyer  
College. Well known as one of the most active birders of New  
Hampshire, she this year confirmed in our local area the unexpected  
mid February occurrence of a wintering Wilson's Snipe at Lake  
Runnemede in Windsor, VT. Dr. Hunt recently authored a important  
report on the "State of the Birds" In New Hampshire. Among her many  
other interests have been ongoing studies of Whip-poor-wills in New  
Hampshire and a 5-year statewide survey of dragonflies and damselflies.

George Clark
Norwich, VT

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