{"id":2415,"date":"2018-01-11T09:30:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T13:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/?p=2415"},"modified":"2018-01-21T17:19:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T21:19:15","slug":"ava-january-meeting-and-45th-anniversary-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/?p=2415","title":{"rendered":"AVA January Meeting and 45th Anniversary Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, January 9th, the AuSable Valley Audubon chapter held its first meeting of the new year. It was a celebration of 45 years of birding in Iosco county and the sunrise side of Michigan. Here are the links to the chapter&#8217;s\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AVA-annual-report-2017-FINAL-web.pdf\">annual report<\/a> and the 45th anniversary <a href=\"http:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AVA-45-year-timeline-program-FINAL.pdf\"> timeline document<\/a>. You will need a PDF reader to view these documents.<\/p>\n<p>The tasty swan cake:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2429\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/web-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2429\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2429\" src=\"http:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/web-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/web-1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/web-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trumpeter Swans &#8211; our signature bird<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More pictures of speakers and some of our AVA volunteer activities. Click on the photos for a larger view :<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"border-top: 0px;\">\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/web-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2431\" src=\"http:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/web-4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/web-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2432\" src=\"http:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/web-7-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/web-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2430\" src=\"http:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/web-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border-top: 0px;\">\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/web-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2435\" src=\"http:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/web-5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/web-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2434\" src=\"http:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/web-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/web-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2436\" src=\"http:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/web-6-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>All photographs are courtesy of Maggie Berch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, January 9th, the AuSable Valley Audubon chapter held its first meeting of the new year. It was a celebration of 45 years of birding in Iosco county and the sunrise side of Michigan. Here are the links to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/?p=2415\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2415"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438,"href":"https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions\/2438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}