Ornithologist Dr. David Russell will again lead us on a birding tour of the Brookville Reservoir area between Liberty and Brookville, Indiana. We’ll visit a number of good spots around Brookville Lake as well as Whitewater State Park, looking for migrating ducks, geese, gulls, sandhill cranes and other species. A map of the area can be found at http://www.in.gov/dnr/parklake/files/brookville_trail.pdf. The group will meet at 7:30 a.m. at the west end of the Wal Mart parking lot (on US 27, north of Oxford). Pack food if desired and bring binoculars if possible. Email Eric Hollins, AMV field trip coordinator, at ehollins@amvohio.org for more infomation.

For the foreseeable future, field trips will have to comply with the best available guidance for minimizing transmission of the Covid-19 virus. Wearing masks and maintaining appropriate social distancing will require cooperation of all participants. Traditional practices such as car-pooling or sharing binoculars are suspended. Site specific requirements and cancellation of scheduled trips will be a possibility. Staying in touch through the information sources listed above is recommended.