Join us Friday, February 3, 2012 at 7:30 PM (social hour with light refreshments at 6:30), for our annual winter meeting at the Bedford Middle School Auditorium, McMahon Road, Bedford, Massachusetts.

Our speaker for the evening will be Mr. Greg Miller.

Photo by Cam Shaw

Greg will discuss his 1998 Big Year, documented in Mark Obmascik's book The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession. He will entertain us with tales from that competitive experience, as well as stories of growing up as a birder, listing and how he came to do a big year. He will also discuss his time as a consultant for 20th Century Fox's adaptation of the book into the 2011 film The Big Year and his experience on the set with Jack Black, Steve Martin, and Owen Wilson.

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