Attention Fellow Waterfowlers. If you regularly donate blood, I am requesting a favor from you. A young lady friend of mine is conducting a blood drive for her scholarship to college. She would get credit for each donation. Her blood drive was scheduled for last saturday...the day it snowed. The turn out was way lower than she had expected. I trekked out to Stony Brook to donate, but I guess the weather kept people in. She will be going for Environmental Studies in college. She is one of our "duck chicks", who helps out the waterfowlers with clean-ups, food drives, and at the duckboat show (face painting). If you are going to donate within the next two weeks, please give the blood center GROUP NUMBER 66207. It will help her towards her college career. Thanks so much for helping out a fellow ducker.

The officers of the South Shore Waterfowlers Association wish everyone and Happy and safe holiday season. May the upcoming season bring in new flights of northern birds to turn on the season.

Due to the New Year Holiday, the library will be closed on Monday, January 2nd. This would have been the regular night of our Jan meeting. Instead, we will be meeting on TUESDAY, January 3rd. Mark this on your calendars. Have a great holiday season.

On Monday Night, November 7th, the members of the SSWA passed the proposed feed fund   amendment by a unanimous vote.  The fund shall henceforth be known as the Emergency Fund, and you can look for a description of the fund in a future posting of the amended copy of our club constitution right here in the "members section" of our website.  Coming soon.

I would like to thank All the SSWA members who helped out at Sunday's Duckboat Show and Waterfowl Festival. You took time out of your busy schedules to support your club, and to help make this years show a success. Due to the high winds and cold temps, our public showing  at the gate was lower than years past, but the true die hards were out in force, braving the cold. Thank you to all our supporters for stepping up and helping out the SSWA. 

If you would like to participate in the Annual Brant Productivity Survey, it is tentatively scheduled for Friday, November 18th. (If the weatherman is predicting rotten weather on the 18th, it may be bumped up to Wednesday, November 16th.)

To sign up, and/or for more information, contact Kelly Hamilton at the DEC in Stony Brook.  Her e-mail is:  kahamilt@gw.dec.state.ny.us 

The 2011 Youth Pheasant Hunt Weekend will be on SAT & SUN, OCT 29 & 30.  All those between 12-15 yrs of age with a junior license, and licensed adult as mentor, may hunt from sunrise to subset on that wewekend.  Permission slips are available in the hunting/trapping guide.

For those junior hunters interested in hunting on the DEC managed lands, they will need a seasonal access permit.  These are available at the hunter check station in Ridge, (Sun, Tues, Thurs, in October from 2-6pm) or by calling the Stony Brook licensing office at 631 444-0273.  Monday to Friday, 8:45am - 4:45 pm.

STOCKING WILL OCCUR FOR THE YOUTH HUNT ON THE FOLLOWING SITES:   ROCKY POINT 2,3,4,5,9,10,13,14,16,18,20,21,28,27,28,30,40,41,42.                          OTIS PIKE,,,1,2,4,6,8,9,10,11,12,16,18,19,20,21,22,36, 37,39,40,41,42.

FOR MORE INFO, CALL SPORTSMAN'S EDUCATION PROGRAM AT 631 444-0255.