And the Audubon Society Award Goes to …

Scott Wieman will be awarded the Bedford Audubon Society's Marty McGuire Scholarship May 14, at a ceremony at Katonah Village Hall. The Rye Country Day School sophomore was chosen from a list of candidates from across Northern Westchester and Eastern Putnam. Scott will use the award to attend a weeklong environmental research camp at Maine Audubon Society's Hog Island.
The scholarship was established in memory of Marty McGuire, an active and enthusiastic birder and naturalist who died last year in a car accident at 25.
The Audubon Society chose Scott for his longtime interest in the environment, particularly ornithology. He has participated at the Hog Island camp twice before, worked as a volunteer at The Rye Nature Center and at Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado; been a conservationist-in-training at Ward Pound Ridge Reservation; and attended Vermont Audubon's High Pond Camp.

At Rye Country Day, Scott is vice president of the Environmental Club and is in the midst of a three-year research project on wood warblers and threats to their migration. He is working with Andrew Farnsworth (Rye Country Day Class of 1991) of Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology.