Northwest Arkansas Audubon Society Videos:

These videos result from program requests made to NWAAS like a recent one from a local retirement community. They recognized we couldn't come indoors because of covid, so could we provide something in a video format about birds?

This is a group effort. I am reminded of our community of birders, their many skills and willingness to share. A former NWAAS secretary and president (and now ex-officio Board member) handled program requests. Musician Kelly Mulhollan, of the duo Still on the Hill (he serves as a committee chair for Mulhollan Blind at Lake Fayetteville), during covid pandemic has been offering programs on the web. He worked with Judy Smith, another Auduboner, who knew how to produce Zoom programs.

When I mentioned this idea to Kelly said, "Call Judy. She knows Zoom." She has produced programs for her musician husband Jack Williams. She agreed to work on the NWAAS programs. These were based upon powerpoint presentations I've made in past years. Once recorded, it was up to NWAAS webmaster Richard Stauffacher to post workable links.

The programs are based upon field trips and bird surveys, mainly since 2008. Lots of Auduboners appear in the programs. Lots of our favorite birds, plants, and places. The first program is about birds associated with a changing climate whose presence in northwest Arkansas is almost certainly climate-driven. We also included a program about the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in northeast Oklahoma. Many of us have informally annexed Tallgrass into Arkansas. Jack Williams is playing guitar in the background – Judy was recording at their home.

The programs are local and original. My narration is at times a little "rough around the edges," but not fatally. They come with an undercurrent message about the value of life on Earth, including Arkansas.   It's a main reason we get on our boots and bins and head out into the field. The programs follow the idea, "Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints," or in this case, videos posted to youtube. -- Joe Neal December 2020

1. Birds and climate change in northwest Arkansas

2. Compton Breeding Bird Survey in the upper Buffalo National River

3. Fall and winter birds at Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area and Beaver Lake

4. April and early May in grasslands of western Arkansas

5. Visions of the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve

6. Passenger Pigeon-Gone, Red-cockaded Woodpecker GROWING

7. We're All In The Buffalo

8. Mississippi River Levees – Amazing Birds

9. AWAKENING, Spring in the Ozarks

10. Astounding Crossbill Irruption

11. Ninestone Land Trust

12. Doug James, ornithologist, in his own words - part 1

13. Doug James, ornithologist, in his own words - part 2

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