Monday, May 31, 2010
Change In Meeting Location
Please join us for our June Meeting in Waco. It will be at the Waco/McLennan County Public Library, on June 6 at 2pm, instead of the Cameron Park Zoo. The library is located on Austin Avenue. Please join us and help us make toys for our upcoming table at Fort Worth!
Sunday, May 23, 2010
June Meeting
Our next meeting Sunday, June 6 at 2pm. We will be meeting at the Cameron Park Zoo. It will be toy making day! We will be selling the toys at our table at Fort Worth. Please come by and help make some great bird toys :)
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Alamo Fiesta Mart
The Alamo Exhibition Bird Club will be holding their annual Fiesta Mart on April 17, at the Live Oak Civic Center in San Antonio. It is a huge mart with great raffle tables. Please visit their website for more information, and plan on joining them for some great shopping. http://www.aebc.org/birdmarts.htm
Our club will have a table at the show. Please stop by and pick up some great info about our club, and do some shopping. Hope to see everyone there!
Our club will have a table at the show. Please stop by and pick up some great info about our club, and do some shopping. Hope to see everyone there!
Monday, April 5, 2010
New DVD Available
Avian Studios proudly announces the release of the 'Expert Companion Bird Care Series: Volume I'. This first of its kind DVD, was created and taught by leading avian veterinarians and bird care specialists. Topics include bird identification, housing, nutrition, toxins, identifying general illness and finding an avian veterinarian.Volume I is the first in a series of 4 DVD's on bird care that will be released over the next few years.
The DVD is designed as a reliable resource on avian care that veterinarians, pet stores and websites can offer to their bird-owning clients.
For more information, please go to http://www.avianstudios.com/.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
The Monthly Molt March 2010
An E-Newsletter Written By and For Members and Friends of the Cen-Tex Bird Club
TEMPLE TABLE TREMENDOUS TRIUMPH
The club table at the Temple Bird Mart last Saturday, March 20, 2010 was a great success. Just about every club member was able to attend for at least a short while. Everyone seemed to enjoy the camaraderie and the sales were higher than we've made the last several shows. Our total profit (after paying for the table space) came to a little over $230.
A STAND IN FAVOR OF PERCHES
One reason our sales were up at the Temple Mart is because of the superior craftiness and creativity of members Carolyn and Gary Reid. The perches and bird stands they made were our hottest selling items. The toys Sherry Gibson and her mother made were also great sellers. (My apologies and let me know if I left out some other hot item.)
ALAMO EXHIBITION BIRD CLUB
The Alamo Exhibition Bird Club will be holding their annual Fiesta Mart on April 17, at the Live Oak Civic Center in San Antonio. It is a huge mart with great raffle tables. Please visit their website for more information, and plan on joining them for some great shopping. http://www.aebc.org/birdmarts.htm
TEMPLE TABLE TREMENDOUS TRIUMPH
The club table at the Temple Bird Mart last Saturday, March 20, 2010 was a great success. Just about every club member was able to attend for at least a short while. Everyone seemed to enjoy the camaraderie and the sales were higher than we've made the last several shows. Our total profit (after paying for the table space) came to a little over $230.
A STAND IN FAVOR OF PERCHES
One reason our sales were up at the Temple Mart is because of the superior craftiness and creativity of members Carolyn and Gary Reid. The perches and bird stands they made were our hottest selling items. The toys Sherry Gibson and her mother made were also great sellers. (My apologies and let me know if I left out some other hot item.)
ALAMO EXHIBITION BIRD CLUB
The Alamo Exhibition Bird Club will be holding their annual Fiesta Mart on April 17, at the Live Oak Civic Center in San Antonio. It is a huge mart with great raffle tables. Please visit their website for more information, and plan on joining them for some great shopping. http://www.aebc.org/birdmarts.htm
Monday, March 8, 2010
March Meeting
We won't have our regular meeting this month. Please come by and visit us at the Texas Bird Breeders and Fanciers show. It will be held March 20 at the Mayborn Convention Center in Temple. We'll have a table manned by our wonderful members. Membership information will be available as well. We will have all kinds of great items to check out! Please come by and say hello!
Saturday, January 30, 2010
February Monthly Molt!
WELCOME TO THE FEBRUARY 2010 EDITION OF THE MONTHLY MOLT, THE MONTHLY E-NEWSLETTER OF THE CEN-TEX BIRD CLUB.
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NEXT CLUB MEETING SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2010
Yes, the next meeting is on Super Bowl Sunday, but the meeting will be long over by game time. We'll meet at 2:00 p.m. in the Conference Room, Cameron Park Zoo, Waco.
Sherry Gibson will bring this month's program. She'll narrate the showing of one of the Barbara Heidenreich videos Barbara Kane got FREE for us from Ms. Heidenreich. I hope everyone is enjoying the FREE copies of "Good Bird Magazine!" that Good Club Member Barbara Kane was also able to procure for us. I know I've enjoyed my copies.
Here's our agenda for the meeting:
Welcome/Call to Order
Reading of the Previous Minutes
Treasurer's Report
Discussion of Public Service Projects
Temple Show Preparations
Other Business/Issues
Buy-Sell-Trade-Give Away
Sherry's Excellent Program
Door Prize Drawing
Adjourn
TREASURER VACATIONS IN CORSICANA
A big bird told your humble correspondent that Club Treasurer Frances and her daughter had a lovely time in Corsicana the other day and had to rent a trailer to bring home all the shoes they bought at the Yellow Box Shoe Outlet in that fair city. Also, they went out to Powell, a few miles east of town and enjoyed a visit to Bancroft Pecan House, www.bancroftpecans.com. Tom and I went over there the other day and I stocked up on honey, summer sausage and several varieties of nuts for the birds and me.
PARROT TRAINING WORKSHOP APRIL 17, 2010
Barbara Heidenreich is having a parrot training workshop on Saturday, April 17, in Keller, just north of Fort Worth and going toward Denton. I MIGHT go and wonder if any other members are interested. I received an e-mail about this event and will forward it to anyone wanting more information.
An early riser might be able to make it by getting up real early that morning. Me-I'd have to go up the Friday night prior to the meeting. Still, I could be late to the first session.
EXPERT MEMBER HELEN SOLVES MYSTERY
I contacted Helen Fahlsing about Gary's question at our last meeting regarding his plucking finches. Helen said the wild bird seed they ate could have caused the plucking. It seems like the wild bird seed contains something finches should not have. Also, the quality control during manufacture is not as high as with pet bird seed or pellets.
Anyway, it's good to know that the birds are all right now, however.
GREAT DANE POPULATION DWINDLES
Member Tom reports that he has two AKC Dane puppies left- a harlequin male and a mostly black female. Several people have expressed an interest but failed to produce the money thus far.
COLD WEATHER STRIKES AGAIN
Our little cold snap is bad enough with the cold rain-I had three inches here the past two days-but the people in Arkansas and Oklahoma are really hurting. A friend in Texarkana told me parts of Arkansas have a foot of snow and most of the state has some snow AND ice on the roadways. The power is out many places.
I hope everyone's outside birds stayed dry and warm and that the people around your place have as well.
SEE YOU REAL SOON
Sunday, February 7, at the Cameron Park Zoo to be exact.
By the way, I got my annual report from the zoo this week and was pleasantly surprised to see that they had over 250,000 visitors last year.
Until meeting day,
Don
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NEXT CLUB MEETING SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2010
Yes, the next meeting is on Super Bowl Sunday, but the meeting will be long over by game time. We'll meet at 2:00 p.m. in the Conference Room, Cameron Park Zoo, Waco.
Sherry Gibson will bring this month's program. She'll narrate the showing of one of the Barbara Heidenreich videos Barbara Kane got FREE for us from Ms. Heidenreich. I hope everyone is enjoying the FREE copies of "Good Bird Magazine!" that Good Club Member Barbara Kane was also able to procure for us. I know I've enjoyed my copies.
Here's our agenda for the meeting:
Welcome/Call to Order
Reading of the Previous Minutes
Treasurer's Report
Discussion of Public Service Projects
Temple Show Preparations
Other Business/Issues
Buy-Sell-Trade-Give Away
Sherry's Excellent Program
Door Prize Drawing
Adjourn
TREASURER VACATIONS IN CORSICANA
A big bird told your humble correspondent that Club Treasurer Frances and her daughter had a lovely time in Corsicana the other day and had to rent a trailer to bring home all the shoes they bought at the Yellow Box Shoe Outlet in that fair city. Also, they went out to Powell, a few miles east of town and enjoyed a visit to Bancroft Pecan House, www.bancroftpecans.com. Tom and I went over there the other day and I stocked up on honey, summer sausage and several varieties of nuts for the birds and me.
PARROT TRAINING WORKSHOP APRIL 17, 2010
Barbara Heidenreich is having a parrot training workshop on Saturday, April 17, in Keller, just north of Fort Worth and going toward Denton. I MIGHT go and wonder if any other members are interested. I received an e-mail about this event and will forward it to anyone wanting more information.
An early riser might be able to make it by getting up real early that morning. Me-I'd have to go up the Friday night prior to the meeting. Still, I could be late to the first session.
EXPERT MEMBER HELEN SOLVES MYSTERY
I contacted Helen Fahlsing about Gary's question at our last meeting regarding his plucking finches. Helen said the wild bird seed they ate could have caused the plucking. It seems like the wild bird seed contains something finches should not have. Also, the quality control during manufacture is not as high as with pet bird seed or pellets.
Anyway, it's good to know that the birds are all right now, however.
GREAT DANE POPULATION DWINDLES
Member Tom reports that he has two AKC Dane puppies left- a harlequin male and a mostly black female. Several people have expressed an interest but failed to produce the money thus far.
COLD WEATHER STRIKES AGAIN
Our little cold snap is bad enough with the cold rain-I had three inches here the past two days-but the people in Arkansas and Oklahoma are really hurting. A friend in Texarkana told me parts of Arkansas have a foot of snow and most of the state has some snow AND ice on the roadways. The power is out many places.
I hope everyone's outside birds stayed dry and warm and that the people around your place have as well.
SEE YOU REAL SOON
Sunday, February 7, at the Cameron Park Zoo to be exact.
By the way, I got my annual report from the zoo this week and was pleasantly surprised to see that they had over 250,000 visitors last year.
Until meeting day,
Don
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