Birders: Mark your calendars for the 26th Annual Meeting of the Connecticut Ornithological Association, which is being held on Saturday, March 20 at Chapman Hall, Middlesex Community College, Middletown, CT. The COA Annual Meeting will prove to be one of the outstanding birding events of the year. The meeting features the following speakers: Alan Brush, on color and plumage in birds; Olivia Gentile, "Birding Planet Earth: The Passion and Adventrues of Phoebe Snetsinger"; Margaret Rubega, on chimney swifts in Connecticut; Greg Hanisek and Mark Szantyr, "The Art and Science of Rare Bird Identification". The Annual Meeting also features the COA marketplace, the COA raffle and silent auction, the 2010 Mabel Osgood Wright Award and the 2010 Betty Kleiner Memorial Award. The Registration Form for the meeting (with a line for signing up for the buffet lunch) is available at the COA website, www.ctbirding.org. Information on 2010 COA membership renewals and new memberships also is available at the COA website. Please support The Connecticut Ornithological Association, which brings you this listserv. Steve Broker (Cheshire) Secretary, COA