We Still Need Your Binoculars! Our target is 50 pairs of binoculars donated for the San Blas Bird Club and we have only 8 pairs so far. Generous donors have provided usable binoculars and I know the San Blas festival volunteers and keen young local naturalists will put them to good use.

Here’s a link to the Migratory Bird Festival Site in Mexico that shows how the binos will be used for learning about conservation:

http://avessanblas.uan.mx/ingles/

or scroll down to “A different kind of team” where you’ll see a better picture of the volunteers:http://avessanblas.uan.mx/ingles/noticias4.html

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Volunteers Need more Binoculars!

Volunteers Need more Binoculars!

We still need that second pair of binos you bought a while ago. If you haven’t had the caps off them lately, maybe the young birders of San Blas can put them to better use! Some of our birding friends in Mexico don’t make as much money as we do. Many young residents of San Blas would find it challenging to spend $50 or $100 for a pair of binoculars to better observe birds. I have offered to help by rounding up unused binoculars here in British Columbia and getting them to young birders in San Blas in December. Providing binoculars will encourage these high school and university students to develop an interest in birding, to gain an understanding of the conservation ethic, and to see the importance of preserving local bird habitat. Using the binoculars the members of the San Blas Bird Club can take part in local field trips designed to promote interest in conservation.  Please email Dannie Carsen at dcarsen@telus.net for details or to get a donation form to help get the binoculars over the border into Mexico.

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