We’ve found a new nest, our Chapter meetings will be held in the Activity Center at Myrtle Beach State Park, 4401 S Kings Hwy, Myrtle Beach, SC 29575. Thanks to Park Manager Troy Crider and Interpretive Ranger Anne Malys-Wilson for inviting us.

People coming to the meeting will get free park admission after 5 pm,  everyone will need to tell park admission that they are going to the Audubon meeting. We will meet at the Activity Center, which is on left just past the office- and in front of the Nature Center.
 Our meeting will begin at 6:30 PM with refreshments and the program will begin at 7:00 PM.
The Park's parking lot is NOT lighted, so please bring a flashlight to help get back to your car during months when it will be dark in the evenings.

Preventing Window Crashes
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Bobbie Lipman is our September speaker.
Bobbie grew up in Aurora, Colorado in a busy household with 4 siblings and a variety of pets. Her mom taught her to draw and paint, to appreciate nature and especially to enjoy birds. Bobbie was employed as a speech/language pathologist and public school administrator for over 35 years. She retired in 2012 when she and her husband Jeff moved to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
In March of 2020, while quarantined due to Covid-19 mandates, she discovered a letter from her mother postmarked March 12, 1969. It told the remarkable story of a cedar waxwing that collided with her parent's kitchen window and was brought indoors to recover. "Can We Keep It" tells the true story of the cedar waxwing. The character Jeanne, is Bobbie's younger sister. The character Mom is their actual mom. Bobbie was visited by a flock of approximately 50 cedar waxwings in March, 2022. The 300 photos she took of them served as models for the illustrations Bobbie created for "Can We Keep It".
To support her children’s book, Bobbie studied bird window strikes.  She reviewed the work of Daniel Klem, Jr., Ph.D., the foremost authority on bird window collisions.  His book Solid Air, Invisible Killer:  Saving Billions of Birds from Windows summarizes everything known about bird window collisions.   Bobbie also reviewed many websites about the topic – Audubon and Cornell’s All About Birds had numerous resources.   
Bobbie and Jeff have 4 grown children and 4 granddaughters. Bobbie enjoys volunteering, exercising, traveling, gardening, reading and spending time with family and friends.

At our October 3rd meeting Black River State Park manager John Moon will talk about the exciting development of this unique park, that will actually encompass several sites along the Black River.
This new park represents a joint effort by many groups including SC Land Conservation Bank, The Nature Conservancy, Open Space Institute along with many other foundations with the goal of Conservation, Protection, and Floodplain Resiliency – All while building in community enter action and community growth.

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We hope to have Chris Marsh speak at the November meeting.  His topic will be Why Birds Live Where They do.

Chris is Director Emeritus at the Spring Island Trust and frequently participant in local Christmas Counts. He served as Compiler at the L/PI count from 1986-1992.Chris’s interest in birds goes back to his very early days. He grew up in Raleigh, NC and joined the Raleigh Bird Club when he was 14. As an intern for the North Carolina Museum of Natural History he traveled throughout North Carolina doing bird identification from 1974-1977. Chris completed his Ph.D. in zoology from Oregon State University in 1982 and became an assistant professor of biology at Brevard College that same year.

From 1984 to 1998 he served as a professor at Coastal Carolina University, where he taught biology, animal behavior, ornithology and marine ecology. He conducted shorebird surveys with the South Carolina Dept. of Natural Resources and worked as an environmental consultant from 1986-1994.
Chris began to work with Betsy and Jim Chaffin on Spring Island as an environmental consultant in 1993. He also conducted bird workshops for members. In 1998 he left academia to become the first full-time Director of the Spring Island Trust and also became the Director of the LowCountry Institute when it was founded that same year. Now retired, Chris continues to contribute to conservation in the Lowcountry as director emeritus.