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Hilton Pond 07/22/02 (Hummers & GLOBE)




HI . . .

We've been slowed down a bit in posting our regular photo essays to 
the Web site for Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History, but 
after reading this week's installment we hope you'll agree we had a 
good excuse.

Our main nature education outreach initiative--"Operation RubyThroat: 
The Hummingbird Project"--is now affiliated with The GLOBE Program, 
and the National Science Foundation has just awarded Hilton Pond 
Center a major grant of $180,000 to involve students and teachers in 
ten countries in hummingbird research.

Needless to say, we're pretty excited and have posted an 
account--along with several close-up photos of hummingbirds--to "This 
Week at Hilton Pond" for the long week of 22-31 August 2002. Just 
click on http://www.hiltonpond.org/ThisWeek020722.html.

We've included some suggestions for how YOU can help Operation 
RubyThroat teach young people about how to study hummingbirds and 
protect hummer habitat.

There's also our usual list of newly banded birds, plus a few that 
have returned from previous years.

Happy Nature Watching!

BILL
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BILL HILTON JR., Executive Director
Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History
1432 DeVinney Road, York, South Carolina 29745 USA
hilton@hiltonpond.org, (803) 684-5852, eFax: (503) 218-0845

The mission of Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History is "to 
conserve plants, animals, and other natural components of the 
Piedmont Region of the eastern United States through observation, 
scientific study, and education for students of all ages." Please 
visit our web sites (courtesy of Comporium.net) at 
http://www.hiltonpond.org and
http://www.rubythroat.org .

"Never trust a person too lazy to get up for sunrise or too busy to
watch the sunset."					BHjr.