Eagles at Christmas Tea at Grey Towers

MILFORD –—Why do eagles migrate to the Delaware River every winter? How many eagles call this region home? How has this area brought the eagle back from its endangered status?

The answers to these questions and more will be illustrated during a program at the Gifford Pinchot Audubon Chapter Annual Christmas Tea on Saturday, December 11, 2004, at 5:00 p.m. at Grey Towers National Historic Landmark in Milford.

The program is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Each year the Gifford Pinchot Audubon Chapter hosts a holiday program at Grey Towers. Topics are chosen in keeping with the chapter’s mission of perpetuating Gifford Pinchot’s conservation legacy. This year the chapter is hosting the Eagle Institute, a regional non-profit organization whose mission is to protect the bald eagle and its habitat. More than 150 eagles migrate to this region every winter in search of open water and undisturbed habitat. The Eagle Institute provides educational programs and manages a volunteer monitoring program in the Delaware River watershed in an effort to provide “the safest and least intrusive” eagle viewing experience. Information on where and when to safely view eagles will be available.

The Gifford Pinchot Audubon Annual Tea is co-sponsored by the USDA Forest Service at Grey Towers.

For information call the Gifford Pinchot Audubon Society at 570/686-5045.

For more information or directions to Grey Towers, call 570/296-9630 or visit the web site at www.fs.fed.us/gt.