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Buckhead Reporter Learn About Our Local Birds ► Mom-and-pop concession stand hits a home run PAGE 4 ► Happy surprise: Braves traffic scoring well so far PAGE 6
Making tracks for cancer patients Bird Walks
Join us for family friendly guided bird walks along the trails at Overlook Park and backyard birding programs held at Lost Residents Corner Preserve.
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Join the Atlanta Audubon Society for family friendly guided BIRD WALKS along the trails at Overlook Park. Binoculars will be available to borrow. WINTER BIRD WALK
The last month of the winter will offer opportunities to see waterfowl and eagles.
Saturday March 4, 2017
Join us at Lost Peachtree Corner pipe through Hills Preserve Park, cutting down trees and affecting a creek, is drawlearn about BingACKYARD BIRDING from a lo opposition as a precedent for private impacts on a public park. birding expert! A developer’s plan to run a storm water
Ashton Woods, a developer building townhomes on Peachtree Hills Avenue adjacent to the park, wants to run a storm drainage pipe into the park, which would require the removal of nine trees near Peachtree
THE 10 COMMON BIRDS OF ATLANTA
Saturday March 25, 2017
10 a.m.-12:00 p
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ALL ABOUT BLUEBIRDS
8:30-10:30 AM
Saturday April 8, 2017
10 a.m.-12:00 p Special taxes on HOW TO MAXIMIZE YOUR BIRD FEEDER Opportunities to look for spring migrants and the the table for park arrival of summer nesting species. Saturday May 13, 2017 10 a.m.-12:00 p over Ga. 400 STANDOUT STUDENTSaturday April 22, 2017 8:30-10:30 OUTAM & ABOUT SPRING BIRD WALK
PHIL MOSIER
The runners are off for the Chastain Chase 5K, which brought 175 runners and walkers to Chastain Park April 23 in a benefit for the nonprofit Cancer Support Community Atlanta. Hobbie Eckes was the overall winner of the fifth annual race, which wound through streets on the Buckhead-Sandy Springs border. For more information about the nonprofit’s work, see cscatlanta.org.
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COST: $12.00 each program BY EVELYN ANDREWS evelyn@reporternewspapers.net
The latest draft study about the park over Bird Walks are provided Ga. 400 includes some long-awaited discus- by Atlanta Audubon u sion of who would pay for the newSociety public space. Onecontract possibility on the table: special Sp with Sandy taxes for neighboring residential and comRecreation and Parks Departm mercial tenants. Proposed nearly two years ago by the Buckhead Community Improvement District, the park capping 400 between Peachtree and Lenox roads has drawn excitement, but also questions and internal CID board controversies about who would
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