The 1980s

1980 Intermittent coverage of migration at Old Cut initiated.	1982 - 1982 Annual Meeting: Ron Tasker, Erica Dunn, Fred Bodsworth, Gerald McKeating, Bruce Falls and Roger Tory Peterson.
1981 5-year Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas initiated by LPBO and the Federation of Ontario Naturalists. Annual operating revenues exceed $100,000 for first time. "Breeding Birds of Long Point Lake Erie" published. Paper on use of migration counts for monitoring bird populations published. Ontario Lakes Loon Survey initiated. Special Long Point issue of "Seasons" magazine published.	1985 - Greg Poole makes for the outhouse during April storm surge.
1982 David Hussell leaves as Executive Director. Roy Smith hired as first full-time Migration Program Manager, replacing the seasonal Warden.	1985 - April storm at Tip station.
1983 Old Cut site purchased. Arthur Langford hired as Executive Director. David Shepherd hired as Migration Program Manager. Old Cut station receives full-time migration coverage.	1985 - David Shepherd on roof of third Tip cabin after December storm. First Tip cabin is upended in background. 1985 - Former site of Tip buildings in foreground, with foundation posts. Remnants of the first and third cabins in background.
1984 Arthur Langford leaves. Martin McNicholl hired as General Manager and then as Executive Director.	1987 - "Grackle Pox" Volunteer banders at Old Cut were occasionally subject to this serious infection. Scratches from Common Grackles that had been foraging in Poison Ivy was the common vector. 1987 - George Wallace, Migration Program and Operations Manager, 1986 – 1988, and Fox Snake at Breakwater field station.
1985 Headquarters moved to St. Williams Forest Station. First Baillie Fund grants awarded outside Ontario. December storm destroys two remaining cabins and workshop at Tip station.	1987 - Ian Higginson, Arun Bose, Melanie Shrailer, George Wallace in The Murrelet.
1986 George Wallace hired as Migration Program Manager. LPBO acquires first computer.	1987 - Construction underway on fourth Tip cabin. 1987 - Volunteer construction chief Jim Matthews at site of fourth Tip cabin. 1987 - Builders of fourth Tip cabin relax after a hot day of construction. From left: Doug Tarry, Peter Corners, Cyril Crocker, Jim Mathews, Melanie Straiton, Bev Collier and Ian Higginson.
1987 Martin McNicholl leaves. George Wallace becomes Operations Manager. Rebuilding of Tip station begins. Ontario Bird Feeder Survey becomes Project FeederWatch and expands continentally. FON and LPBO co-publish "Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Ontario."	1987 - David Shepherd, Migration Program Manager, 1983 – 1986, banding Sharp-shinned Hawk at Clear Creek.
1988 Work begins on Hooded Warblers at base of Point. International work in Cuba initiated. LPBO begins to receive ongoing provincial government support for migration monitoring. Major fund raising for Old Cut undertaken. 4-year Ontario Rare Breeding Bird (ORBBP) program initiated. Endowment Fund assets reach $50,000. Membership stands at 553. Lighthouse automated and light keeper's vacate the Tip, after continuous presence since 1842!	1988 - Old Cut Field Station and Visitor Centre in transition. 1988 - Margaret Atwood addresses Annual Members Meeting.
1989 Michael Bradstreet hired as Executive Director. Jon McCracken hired as Migration Program Manager. Operating revenues exceed $250,000 for first time. Ontario Lakes Loon Survey becomes Canadian Lakes Loon Survey. Construction work completed on Old Cut and Tip stations. Major office renovations completed. Baillie Fund awards first annual student research award. Constitutional amendments add new conservation objective and change associate members to legal members with voting rights. 2-year project to computerize all historical banding data initiated.	1988 - Barb Charlton, Doug McRae, Dave Mosgeller and Joe Emery, with bags of birds, at newly-constructed fourth Tip cabin. 1988 - Board Director Barbara Charlton and friend at Halloween party. 1989 - Deck construction crew at fourth Tip cabin. From left: on deck, Seamus Eaves, Geoff Holroyd, Michael Holroyd, Peter Carson, Elizabeth Beaubien, Mary Gartshore; front row, Michael Bradstreet, Lynne Bradstreet, Thomas Bradstreet, Peggy Holroyd.