Ecuador: The Andes Introtour for One
From Tropical Birding
The Neotropics are widely regarded as being packed with thousands of confusing birds in difficult birding conditions. This can be true, but the rewards of birding here are unsurpassed. After just a week of seeing numerous new families and having the intricacies of Neotropical birding explained, you will find it is highly addictive. It just does not get better than this.

Private Tour for Two,
Heritage Garden at the Governor’s Residence
Columbus, Ohio
Join retired ODNR Chief, Guy Denny, for a 1 1/2 hour private tour of the Heritage Gardens. This auction item includes a signed edition of The Ohio Governor’s Residence and Heritage Garden. 

About the garden . . .
The idea of the Heritage Garden was first conceived in 2000 as a way to showcase Ohio's natural history and environment to the thousands of yearly visitors to the Governor’s Residence.  

Then First Lady Hope Taft secured the donated services of a landscape architect and garden designer who developed a master plan that not only highlights the five physiographic regions of the state but also enhances the Jacobean revival architecture of the home and highlights
Ohio botanists and hybridizers.

For more information about the Heritage Garden at the Governor's Residence click here.

Yellowlegs Carving by Bob Lund
Bob Lund is a waterfowl and bird carver who has won countless awards for his intricate carvings.  Time spent working with his avian subjects gives him great joy. He has been awarded Best of Show and numerous Best of Class ribbons.   

This Yellowlegs carving took over 100 hours to complete.

Two Nights Lodging at Five Bells Inn, Catawba Island, Ohio
Lodging for two, for two nights, at this romantic, waterfront bed & breakfast located on 6 acres on the west side of Catawba Island. With fantastic sunset views, outdoor decks to relax on, wetlands, and plenty of grounds to roam this will be a very enjoyable retreat. Your hosts, Eileen and Jerry Jarc will take very good care of you during your stay.

Peregrine Falcon Photograph
by Brian Zwiebel
Picture Size: 9” x 11”
Framed, matted, and signed

Brian took this magnificent shot on BSBO’s Lake Erie Pelagic Trip in January, 2010.

A Collection of Books
by Robert Michael Pyle
Widely hailed as "the father of butterfly-watching," Pyle founded the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, began the summer butterfly counts that have become so popular, and wrote the first true field guide to butterflies of North America.
Titles include:
Wintergreen: Rambles in a Ravaged Land
Handbook for Butterfly Watchers
Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a
  Forgotten Place