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SIB Member Profile: Melanie & Rob Jerome
Before Match.com, eHarmony and okCupid there were blind dates, and that’s how Melanie and Bob Jerome met more than thirty years ago. Both are Buckeyes and raised their two sons in Ohio. Rob had a career in data processing and programming. Melanie’s nursing and business degrees coalesced into a fulfilling position as a case management
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SIB Member Profile: Bob & Eileen Mercer
Silver Lake Park is a 465 acre wildlife and recreational property in Bucks County, PA. Bucks County is north of Philadelphia and across the river from New Jersey. The lake within the park was created as a man-made mill pond with the 1687 building of a dam on Otter Creek. Much of what was once
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SIB Member Profile: Carl Voelker
One of the strengths in the management of the several elements on Seabrook Island is the willingness of hundreds of its property owners to volunteer their time in serving on committees. They choose not to be in the spotlight of elective office. They do the grunt work and fly under the radar. One of these
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SIB Member Profile: Jane Mangioncalda
Jane Magioncalda is a native of Queens, New York who moved south in 2003 with husband Joe Ficarra. The two met as graduate students at St. John’s University—she in law school and he in the MBA tract. Jane worked for the prestigious TIAA-CREF financial services organization for close to thirty years practicing Real Estate Law.
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SIB Member of the Month: Tori Langen
For those of you who know her, you might not be aware that Tori Langen is a birder. She’s better known as an avid and accomplished golfer and a darned good bridge player. But she also enjoys birding! Tori says that it was probably her father who got her interested in our feathered friends.
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SIB Member Profile: Charley Moore
Yes, I am a certified tree-hugger. I have always considered myself an environmentalist, naturalist, and biologist. Growing up in the 1950’s on a small Kentucky farm that included at one time or another nearly every animal that has ever been domesticated, I obtained an early appreciation for animals and the value and satisfaction of growing
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SIB Member Profile: Nancy Brown & Flo Foley
It was because of the birds that Flo Foley and Nancy Brown moved to Seabrook Island four years ago after retiring from successful careers at Verizon. Flo has always loved nature and fondly remembers watching the pheasants in her backyard growing up in Jamaica Plain, MA. Her grandmother, who lived next door, had a pet
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SIB Member Profile: Marcia & Bob Hider
My dad was an avid birder. Most would find that hard to believe since he was color blind and had lost a lot of his hearing as he aged. Actually, really knowledgeable birders use other clues in identifying birds: location, season, amount and type of activity, shape, size and more, all of which require neither
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SIB Member Profile – George Haskins
I’ve been interested in birding ever since my Grandmother gave me a Roger Tory Peterson Field Guide when I was six years old. Soon after that we moved to a home adjacent to an Audubon Sanctuary in Brockton, MA. My sister and I became Junior Auduboners. I do maintain annual lists of birds seen and
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SIB Member Profile – Aija & Ed Konrad
We all find our path to birding in different ways…ours was through deer! Yes, deer! Ed and I were avid gardeners in Atlanta. On our 1-acre yard, we had extensive perennial gardens and were featured on Atlanta area garden tours. And then, when they cleared some land on a little mountain behind our neighborhood, deer came