Hummingbirds Join The Round Table

I have moderated forums since 1990 starting with Compuserve, Prodigy and America Online. In doing so, I have always believed that the way to deciminate information on Purple Martins was on the Internet. The Information Highway, as we once called it, provided an immense audience that was both willing to learn as well as share their information. No question that the Internet is one of the biggest events in our lifetimes--indeed in the last century, and, yet, now most of us take it for granted.

Well, today, we are furthering everyone's education in hummingbirds, those lovely gems of Nature. Everyone loves hummies and everyone wants to attract them to their backyards.

It has been my goal and pleasure to provide for you and others here and on the Internet a fine compilation of conferences on many aspects of birding and nature as well as our beloved Purple Martins. I have always felt that those of us, martin devotees, are not so specialized that we cannot enjoy all the other wonderful birds outside our windows and our backyards.

In the last year, we have enriched our community by adding a very successful Bluebird Conferences, managed by our dear and generous Evelyn Cooper. In this discussion conference, we have bluebirders from everywhere across the country and as far as California chiming in on their beloved bluebird.

While we have had a birding conference, Birds of a Feather, for a long time, we never had a permanent birding moderator but now we do. We have wonderful Jean Pell sharing her birding thoughts and inviting a whole new audience to join her on the Round Table.

As always, we have a Nature expert and writer with our own Rick Cruz. Quirky, though he may be, he knows so much about Nature and magnanimously shares it with all of us. And, in addition he writes in a very clear and sensitive manner whether he talks about frogs, fish, snakes, birds and even humans. He is our our very own Ranger Rick!

And, in the last year, we have added some interesting blogs from writers around the US to our Round Table with Susan Halpin in Florida and Cheryl Smith-Rodgers in Arizona. These ladies certainly help to round out the Round Table.

But, something has been missing. The Round Table continued to have one square corner, and today, we are definitely rounding out the Round Table with the welcomed addition of The Hummingbird Conference, hosted by the very knowledgable Ms Susan Campbell. Susan comes to us via North Carolina and we are so very excited to have her on board the Round Table.

Please favor all of our wonderful and magnanimous contributors to the Round Table and if you have questions and comments, post them and add to the wonderful conversations here.

But, now, let me introduce, if only by word, our new and wonderful Hummingbird Conference Moderator, Ms Susan Campbell!!


SUSAN CAMPBELL

Susan is a hummingbird enthusiast and researcher who hails from the Sandhills region of North Carolina. She is affiliated with both the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and the Hummer Bird Study Group.

Susan has been working with hummingbirds for over ten years statewide. Not only does she band hummingbirds and document significant hummingbird happenings in North Carolina, she has been experimenting with a wide variety hummingbird plants. Susan also conducts educational programs and banding demonstrations throughout the year, including the annual Hummingbird Festival in Charlotte, NC and the Wild Wings event at Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden in Belmont, NC.


We are so fortunate to have Susan join us here at the Round Table. Join her in the very new Hummingbird Conference here on the Round Table Conferences.

Please help me to welcome her to our Purple Martin Round Table Community!


Welcome Susan!