The ORAS September monthly meeting will feature a wine and cheese social, silent auction, and talk by ornithologist Dr. Joe Wunderle about effects of hurricanes on Caribbean birds. Please see main page for more information. Hope to see you there!

Please join us for our annual picnic in the park! It will be a potluck and will be held at the shelter on the hill in the Memorial Park. Election of officers will take place then as well. Hope to see you there!

The meeting will be held at Sandy Creek Nature Center in Athens. Please follow link for more information: http://www.oconeeriversaudubon.org/node/559

Please join us for our monthly meeting where Ashley Lohr, a former recipient of ORAS research grant and graduate student at UGA, will share part of her Master's thesis research on turkey reproductive ecology. Please see link for details.

Note:  this event has changed.  Due to the flooding on the south end of Cook's Trail, the trail is closed from the Nature Center entrance.  Sandy Creek Park is kindly allowing us to bird the trail from the north end.