BobwhiteQuailInsIdethIs Issue President’s Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Bird Bits: W ayward Geese . . . . . . . . . 3 Great Backyard Bird Count . . . . . . 4-5 AAS Receives Grant or Garden . . . . . 4 Request or Award Nominations . . . . . . 4 Hands Across Te Sands Rally . . . . . . 5 Birding in a F oreign Country . . . . . . . . 6 Operation Migration U pdate . . . . . . . . . 6 Florida Spr ings Rally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 January Program SPeaker: Jim Cox Pine-Grassland Bird Conservation Is It Time T o Drop Your Binoculars And Pick Up A Gun? Thursday, January 28 th , 918 Railroad Avenue Social at 7:00 p.m. Program 7:30 p.m. uPComing aaS Birding Field TriPS entrance or pass holder, admission or each passenger without a pass, $2. Bicycle and pedestrian entry is $2 per person. Description: Meet at the Maclay Recreation Area parking lot at 8:15 a.m. or a guided birdwalk othe park by Ranger Andy Wraithmell. We will look or regular winter vagrants like Dark-eyed Juncos, Golden-crowned Kinglets, Brown Creepers and Winter Wrens, as well as more amiliar winter visitors. Te group will also walk the park’s rustic trail to Lake Overstreet to view the more than 1,000 Ring-necked and other ducks that winter on the lake, with a chance owitnessing the spectacle othe park’ s resident bald e agles hazing the ducks on the lake. What to bring: W ater, comortable shoes, hat, appropriate dress or the weather, sunscreen, binoculars, camera. Andy Wraithmell is a park ranger at Alred B. MaclayGardens State Park. He’s previously worked as a Sea W atch counter and shorebird technician at Cape May Bird Observatory in New Jersey and was assistant warden or three years at Dungeness Bird Observatory in Southeast England. Julie Wraithmell coordinates wildlie policy or Audubon oFlorida in allahassee, and previously created the Great Florida Birding rail or the Florida Fish and Wildlie Conservation Commission. Pine-grassland birds are experiencing steep popula tion declines. Management or this gr oup obirds that includes Henslow's Sparrow, Bachman's Sparrow, Eastern Meadowlark, and many other species oten overlaps with management or the Bobwhite Qu ail, a avorit e game species. Recent programs ocused on Bobwh ite Quail conservation have touted the benets that quail management might provide these other species, but eorts to date may not be living up to the promise. Tis presentation addresses the positives and negatives associated with a quail-centric approach and discusses the importance oa balanced, ecosystem-approach to land management. Jim Coxis a biologis t with all imbers Research Station and Land Conservancy . He works primarilywith Red-cockaded Woodpeckers, Bachman’s Sparrows, Brown-headed Nuthatches, and other pineland songbirds. Bird Banding at Tall TimbersSaturday, January 23 rd, 7:30 - 11:00 a.m. (Tis event will be cancelled iit rains.) Hosted by: Jim Cox Skill Level: Easy. Short walk along a trail to the banding site. Cost: Free, but donations to the bird program are welcome. Description: Nets will be set up along the Henry Stevenson bird trail at 7:30 am. People ca n stop by to see what has been netted anytime that morning beore the nets are taken down around 11:00. Drive to all imbers and look or the signs to the bird trail. Peo ple can also watch rom the bird windowoverlooking Gannet Pond. What to bring: Water, appropriate dress or the weather, binoculars, camera. Jim Coxis a biologist with all imbers. Birding at Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State ParkSaturday, January 30 st, 8:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Hosted by: Andy and Julie Wraithmell Skill Level: Mile plus oeasy walking on unpaved paths. Cost: $6/car up to 8 people. Family pass holders, ree entrance or carload up to 6. Individual pass holders, ree Te Newsletter othe Apalachee Audubon Society , Inc. V ol. 108, No. 4 January 2010 www.apalachee.org
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Pine-Grassland Bird ConservationIs It Time To Drop Your Binoculars And Pick Up A Gun?
Thursday, January 28th, 918 Railroad Avenue
Social at 7:00 p.m. Program 7:30 p.m.
uPComing aaS Birding Field TriPS
entrance or pass holder, admission or each passenger withouta pass, $2. Bicycle and pedestrian entry is $2 per person.
Description: Meet at the Maclay Recreation Area parkinglot at 8:15 a.m. or a guided birdwalk o the park by Ranger Andy Wraithmell. We will look or regular winter vagrantslike Dark-eyed Juncos, Golden-crowned Kinglets, BrownCreepers and Winter Wrens, as well as more amiliar wintervisitors.
Te group will also walk the park’s rustic trail to LakeOverstreet to view the more than 1,000 Ring-neckedand other ducks that winter on the lake, with a chance o witnessing the spectacle o the park’s resident bald eagleshazing the ducks on the lake.
What to bring: Water, comortable shoes, hat, appropriatedress or the weather, sunscreen, binoculars, camera.
Andy Wraithmell is a park ranger at Alred B. Maclay Gardens State Park. He’s previously worked as a Sea Watch counter and shorebird technician at Cape May BirdObservatory in New Jersey and was assistant warden or threeyears at Dungeness Bird Observatory in Southeast England.
Julie Wraithmell coordinates wildlie policy or Audubono Florida in allahassee, and previously created the GreatFlorida Birding rail or the Florida Fish and WildlieConservation Commission.
Pine-grassland birds are experiencingsteep population declines. Managementor this group o birds that includesHenslow's Sparrow, Bachman's Sparrow,Eastern Meadowlark, and many otherspecies oten overlaps with managementor the Bobwhite Quail, a avorite gamespecies.
Recent programs ocused on BobwhiteQuail conservation have touted thebenets that quail managementmight provide these other species,but eorts to date may not be living
up to the promise. Tis presentationaddresses the positives and negativesassociated with a quail-centric approachand discusses the importance o abalanced, ecosystem-approach to landmanagement.
Jim Cox is a biologist with allimbers Research Station andLand Conservancy. He works primarily with Red-cockaded Woodpeckers,Bachman’s Sparrows, Brown-headedNuthatches, and other pinelandsongbirds.
Bird Banding at Tall Timbers Saturday, January 23rd , 7:30 - 11:00 a.m.
(Tis event will be cancelled i it rains.)Hosted by: Jim Cox
Skill Level: Easy. Short walk along a trail to the banding site.
Cost: Free, but donations to the bird program are welcome.
Description: Nets will be set up along the Henry Stevensonbird trail at 7:30 am. People can stop by to see what has beennetted anytime that morning beore the nets are taken downaround 11:00. Drive to all imbers and look or the signsto the bird trail. People can also watch rom the bird window overlooking Gannet Pond.
What to bring: Water, appropriate dress or the weather,binoculars, camera.
Jim Cox is a biologist with all imbers.
Birding at Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park Saturday, January 30st , 8:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.Hosted by: Andy and Julie Wraithmell
Skill Level: Mile plus o easy walking on unpaved paths.
Cost: $6/car up to 8 people. Family pass holders, reeentrance or carload up to 6. Individual pass holders, ree
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Note: A reminder that Gaines Street is undergoing constructionand portions o the road will be closed between 7:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. Please allow extra time or potential detours.
PreSidenT’S meSSage by Ed Gartner
Te ollowing conclusions are based on my own industrial experience,
and do not necessarily refect the opinions o Audubon or its members.
Batteries store electricity or make it rom non-renewablematerials. Tis is a losing situation. “Mass-Energy canneither be created nor destroyed.” Only transormed.
Each change o type o energy is less than 100% ecient. In
a typical situation in which car batteries are plugged into apower source, coal, oil or gas is burned as a rst step.
Tis chemical reaction produces heat, which turns a turbine.Te turbine produces electricity which is transported to anoutlet. Energy is lost during transportation o the electricity.Te electricity creates a chemical change in charging abattery, which is used to return to mechanical energy tomove the car.
We then have: chemical reaction to heat mechanical toelectrical to chemical to electrical to mechanical to movethe car. Each transormation o types o energy has a cost o
ineciency—nothing is 100% ecient. It would be moreecient to burn the uel directly in the car, thus eliminatingour steps. Not counting the steps and materials used tomake the batteries in the rst place.
REALIIES
Bad information is worse than no information at all.Apalachee Audubon Society (AAS)
AAS is a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization. All contributionsare tax deductible. Inquiries can also be sent to 76 Dogwood
Forest Rd., Crawfordville, FL 32327-0588.
Mission Statement: Protection of the environment througheducation, appreciation, and conservation.
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Join National Audubon Societyand Apalachee Audubon!
For just $20 a year you can be a member o both National Audubon and our local Apalachee Audubon chapter. Yourmembership will include Audubon, our bimonthly fagshippublication. Each issue o this award-winning publicationeatures beautiul photography and provocative journalism.Our chapter newsletter will keep you inormed o local andstatewide Audubon and other nature-related events.
You can pay or membership using a credit card by calling Audubon’s toll ree membership number. (Please mentionour chapter ID E–19 for us to get full credit for a new membership).
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Greater White-ronted Goose ( Anser albirons ) Photo by Harry Hooper
Bird BiTS: WayWard geeSe by Harry Hooper
AAS board member Melissa Forehandreported last November that she hadobserved a pair o Greater White-ronted Geese at a pond in Southwoodon the southeast side o allahassee.Since these geese were mingling withCanada geese that explored the lakesand arm elds around Southwood orgood oraging sites, it generally took birders more than one trip to add thisspecies to their Florida list. Our lastvisit to Southwood in December notonly produced the greater white-rontedgeese oraging with the Canada, but we added a single white-phased Snow Goose (Chen caerulescens ) to the mix.
Greater white-ronted geese breedon the tundra and taiga rom Alaska
east to Greenland and parts o Eurasia. Wintering grounds or the Alaskan/Canadian population includecoastal marshes, inland wetlandsand agricultural elds rom southernLouisiana west through southeastand South Central exas, northernMexico, and Caliornia north through Washington. Te species is rarely observed east o the Mississippi River.Te goose was rst documented inFlorida in 1939 at the St. MarksNational Wildlie Reuge by eldornithologist Herbert L. Stoddard, Sr.(Te Birdlie o Florida, 1994, Henry M. Stevenson and Bruce H. Anderson).Te species is considered a rare to airly common winter resident in Florida(October-March) with 50 reportsdocumented through 1992. Isolatedsightings have increased statewide inrecent years.
Tis beautiul bird with a bright pink
to orange bill and bright orange legs hasan overall brownish gray plumage witha thin white streak on its fank. A largepatch o white eathers separates the topo the head rom the base o the bill.Tick black streaks contrast on the lightgray belly. Te greater white-rontedbears a resemblance to the “barnyard”goose, a grayish brown bird with an
orange bill that is the domesticatedversion o the Graylag Goose o Europe.
Te Greater White-ronted Goose issmaller than our local Canada Goose(Branta hutchinsii ). Depending onthe subspecies, Canada average 6.5 to9.75 pounds. Greater white-rontedaverage 4 to 6.5 pounds. During the winter months, Greater White-ronted
generally associate with Snow andCanada geese.
Attempting to separate the subspecies orraces o this goose is dicult. Tree o the ve races breed in North America.
Te Southwood birds appear to havebright orange bills, a eld mark or theGreenland race. Small groups o thisrace at times migrate with wild Canadageese southward along the easternseaboard o the U.S. ake a drivearound the lakes at Southwood andlook or a small group o Canada geese.Scan these geese closely and look orsmaller birds with dierent markings.Remember to enjoy these beautiul wildbirds at a distance that is comortableor the birds, not or the observer.
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2010 AAS Program Speakers & Topics
January 28 Jim Cox,Hunting & Conservation (all imbers)
February 25 Sandy Beck, Owls (St. Francis Wildlie)
March 25 Donna Legare, Planting or Wildlie (Native Nurseries)
April 22 Fritz Davis,Get the Facts and then Act: How Marjorie Harris Carr and the Florida Deenders o the Environment Stopped the Cross Florida Barge Canal (Florida State Universtiy)
May 27 Annual Banquet Dana Bryan, Lim pkins
(FL-Dept. o Environmental Protection)
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When: Saturday, February 13, 2010 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Where: 3210 Brookorest Dr. (o Lakeshore Drive)
Cost: Free
Description: Tis coincides with the Great Backyard BirdCount weekend. Fran Rutkovsky , Ed Gartner and otherparticipants will be counting the birds at the eeders as well asup in the trees, in the ravine and yard, and surrounding area.In past winters, birds seen here have included Baltimore andBullock's Orioles, Western and Summer anagers, and varioushummingbird species.
Fran has participated in the Great Backyard Bird Count sinceits beginning and is also in her 10th year counting or ProjectFeederWatch.
Come directly to the house and park on the street. I you
want to carpool, please arrange that separately. Te counting will take place rom 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., but participantsare welcome to bring their lunch and stay later, i we're seeinga lot o birds.
Climbing stairs to the deck is necessary. All levels o birdingskills are welcome. Bring your binoculars and bird guide.
Dress or the weather, as this will be outside, thoughcover will be available during part o it. Contact Fran [email protected] or call her at (850) 422-3636.
2010 greaT BaCkyard Bird CounT evenTS in TallahaSSee
A pAlAchee A udubon socIety R eceIves GRAnt
In early December 2009, AAS received notication thatour application or a grant rom the National Fish & Wildlie Foundation had been approved. Tis means thatnearly $5,000 will be made available or the pollinatorgarden plantings and related educational projects at St.Marks National Wildlie Reuge.
We are excited about this opportunity and eager to receivethe details o the grant agreement rom NFWF ocial
Essence Morris. Our garden committee will then meet toplan Phase wo o the project. Tere will be springtimeimprovements to the current garden area and new borderplantings at Picnic Pond and the Lighthouse Levee rail. We know many o you are excellent gardeners who will want to join us in this worthwhile project. Inormationabout how you can help will be in our next newsletter, so
stay tuned.
A wARds nomInAtIons
Every year there are numerous individuals within ourorganization, or within our goals, who deserve specialrecognition. A ew are nominated to receive public notice,and you, our readers, can point these people out to our Awards Committee, this year led by member Peter Kelly .I you would like to nominate someone, please contactan AAS board member. Contact inormation is on the
masthead on page 2 and the AAS web site.
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GBBC at Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park
When: Sunday, February 14, 2010 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Where: Meet at the Recreation Area parking lot
Cost: Park Admission (see page 1 eld trip or details)
On February 14th (Valentine's Day...Feel the Love!) between8:00 a.m. and noon, Park Rangers Dave Garcia and Andy Wraithmell will be hosting our annual Great Backyard BirdCount event.
We are going to split into our teams each with two leadersand cover our sections o the park, namely the recreationarea, the gardens, Lake Overstreet trail and the ravine trail.Te park is a great place to see a lot o great birds such as theDark-eyed Junco, Brown Creeper, Winter Wren, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Wild urkey, Bald Eagle, Ring-neckedDucks, Great Horned Owls....the list goes on.
Tis is a great opportunity to have un and take part in somecitizen science. We will meet at the Recreation Area picnicpavilion at 8:00 a.m. and split into groups and have at it!
At noon, there will be drinks and sugar-loaded snacks(brownies, cookies and the like) back at the picnic shelter. Aterwards all participants will be invited to bird within thepark at their own leisure or join a ranger or an aternoonhistoric gardens tour and visit o the Maclay House.
All we ask or in return, apart rom your bird-spotting skills,is $6 per vehicle or an annual pass to gain entry.
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Te Great Backyard Bird Count is an annual our-day eventthat engages bird watchers o all ages in counting birds tocreate a real-time snapshot o where the birds are acrossthe continent and in Hawaii. Anyone can participate, rombeginning bird watchers to experts. It takes as little as 15minutes on one day, or you can count or as long as you likeeach day o the event. It’s ree, un, and easy-and it helps thebirds. All are welcome to take part in the Great Backyard BirdCount, rom novice bird watchers to experts. Participantscount birds or as little as 15 minutes (or as long as they wish)on one or more days o the event and report their sightingsonline. Watch the real-time maps and charts grow asparticipants enter their data. Click on “Explore the Results”to check out the op en Lists, State allies (and cities within
the states), etc. Last year allahassee was #3 NAIONALLY in number o checklists submitted. Can we do it again?
Submit separate checklists or each location where youcount, on any or all our days. During last year’s count,participants turned in more than 93,600 checklists online,creating the continent’s largest instantaneous snapshot o birdpopulations ever recorded.
You’re also encouraged to submit photographs taken duringthe our-day count period. Local AAS member, Glenda Simmons, had a winning photograph in the “Overall”category. Tis is quite an achievement considering the almost
6,000 entries. Congratulations, Glenda! Her beautiulphotograph o a bluebird is eatured on our AAS web site. Youcan see an album in the GBBC photo gallery showing all the winners, nalists, and honorable mentions at: www.birdsource.org/gbbc/gallery.
As an added bonus, we have this message rom Mary Huggins and Susan eisciero, owners o Wild BirdsUnlimited:
“I someone would like us to input their count (i they don’thave a computer), they can bring it in or mail it to us, andI will put it in. We also give a coupon or participating. Just
bring in your count sheets or each day that you participatedand we give you 5% or each day...up to a 20% o coupon.”
Teir store is located at 1505-2 Governor’s Square Blvd.,allahassee and you can reach them at (850) 576-0002.
R Ally to pRotect FloRIdA w AteRs
s AtuRdAy , FebRuARy 13, 2010
www.HandsAcrossTeSand.com
In the near uture the citizens o Florida will have anopportunity to show their opposition to oil drilling asclose as 3 to 10 miles o our coast. Tis movement will bemade o people o all walks o lie and will cross politicalaliations. Tis movement is not about politics; it is aboutprotection o our shoreline, our tourism, our valuableproperties and our way o lie. Let us share our knowledge,energies and passion or protecting our waterways andbeaches rom the devastating eects o oil drilling.
Join Hands Across the Sand on February 13th or a rally in allahassee to tell legislators that drilling on Florida’scoast is non-productive and should not be allowed withinFlorida controlled waters. Check the web site or specicsabout time and location, or contact Bob Henderson,(850) 575-6610 or email him at [email protected].
Hands Across Te Sand is devoted to protectingour coastline and waterways rom the devastatingenvironmental eects o oil exploration and supportindustries
CounT For Fun, CounT For The FuTure! by F ran r utkovsky
greaT BaCkyard Bird CounT, FeBruary 12-15, 2010A Joint Project of Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society
www.birdsource.org/gbbc
For up-to-date notications of upcoming Apalachee
Audubon activities, join the AAS email list at:
www.groups.google.com/group/apalachee-audubon
You do not need to join Google Groups to receive these mailings.
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On a recent trip to Helsinki, Finland, Idecided that I should plan to do somebirding in the area. While doing a littleinternet research on Birds o FinlandI came upon a birding site calledbirdingpal.com. I decided to look itup and nd out what it was all about.
Once at the site you click on a country and you are given a list o local birders who are willing to give you inormationand sometimes accompany you ona birding trip. Te list gave a littleabout each o the people on the list orHelsinki, including what languages they spoke fuently. I selected several personslisted to email.
Te email is delivered through thesite, so the email addresses are kept
condential until the birding palresponds to your email. I emailed threepeople and received two responses.Both were fuent in English which madeour communications very easy. Aterexchanging several emails, both birdersagreed to meet me at my hotel and takeme with them to a avorite birding spot.I met each o them ater their work day
around 4:00 p.m. Additionally I wentbirding on my own one aternoon in anearby park recommended by one o my birding pals.
Unortunately the majority o passerineshad already come through the area, sothere were not many birds present—except the year round residents. Idid however go to some wonderulbirding sites that I know would be ullo birds in either all or spring. I hadtwo wonderul hosts. Anissi, a nativeFinlander had been a birder since he was six years old and had a lie list o over 4,000 birds. Since he workedor the government and had heldseveral positions at Finnish embassiesaround the world, he’d had excellent
opportunities to add birds rom othercountries to his list. My other host wasBen, a native rom England who was arecent transplant to Finland. Ben hadalso been an avid birder in England. Anadded bonus to my bird watching wasthe opportunity to learn more about theFinnish culture rom my two hosts.
Birding in a Foreign CounTry by Carolyn Smith
At the end o each aternoon with my hosts (around 8:00 p.m.), they wouldescort me back to my hotel. Neithero my pals had cars, so we took masstransit (which is wonderul in Helsinki)both to and rom our destinations.Tough it had seemed like we were
in the middle o the orest both days, we were actually only minutes romdowntown Helsinki. Ater all was saidand done, I had added ourteen new birds to my lie list including: Coalit, Blue it, Great it, Hooded Crow,Common Wood Pigeon, Bean Goose,Barnacle Goose, Goosander, NorthernLapwing, European Robin, Grey HeronField Fare, ree Pipit and Great CrestedGrebe.
Not only do I highly recommend usingbirdingpal.com or any uture tripsyou may be planning, but I wouldencourage anyone who enjoys birdingand meeting people, to sign up to be abirding pal. I checked the US site, andthe number o people signed up to behosts was ar ewer than in Europe.
Happy Birding – wherever you are!
By the time you read this, the 20 Whooping Cranes in theClass o 2009 will have been escorted to their two respectivedestinations, St. Marks and Chassahowitzka National WildlieReuges—hopeully without incident.
Here’s the lastest location inormation about the St. Marksmembers o the Class o 2008.
805 Columbia Co. WI Dec. 10812 Columbia Co. WI Dec. 10813* Sauk Co. WI Dec. 10826 Deceased
It’s not been an easy year or Operation Migration (OM).Tere have been numerous mechanical problems along themigration route and on November 20, 2009, the OM hangarin Necedah, Wisconsin was vandalized and robbed.
Later that month, an OM-raised emale whooper, 217, wasshot and killed in Indiana. Te First Family matriarch, she
and mate 211 were the rst (and so ar only) WhoopingCranes in the Eastern Migratory Population who havesuccessully reared young in the wild.
Catch up and keep up with the latest OM news online at theSt. Marks Reuge Association web site:
www.stmarksreuge.org/cranes.cm
or at the Operation Migration Field Journal: www.operationmigration.org/Field_Journal.html
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oPeraTion migraTion 2009 uPdaTe by k athleen C arr
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Rally Are you saddened that Florida’s springs are becoming polluted and losing their ow? Have you wanted to
do something meaningful to help save them? This is a way for you to make a dierence.
Legislation to protect Florida’s springs was introduced but failed to pass in each of the last ve legislative
sessions. This was due, in part, to inadequate public support for meaningful protection. In order to
demonstrate public concern for the health of Florida’s springs and support for signicant regulatory protection, a special event will be held at the Capitol during a Legislative committee week Tuesday,
February 16, 2010.
The event will begin with a Run for Wakulla Spring. Local youth will collect a bottle of water from
Wakulla Spring and deliver the water by relay runners from the spring 16 miles to the Capitol. They will
arrive at the Capitol at 12:00 noon for the start of the Florida Springs Rally. Their message will be: “Save
Wakulla Spring for the Next Generation.”
The Florida Springs Rally will be attended by delegations of citizens from the major springs and cities in
north and central Florida. Prior to the rally, delegates will ask their legislators to attend the rally and meet with them at their Capitol oces. Their message will be ”Real Legislative Protection in 2010.”
The event is sponsored by: Florida Federation of Garden Clubs Friends of Wakulla Spring
1000 Friends of Florida Friends of Wekiva River
Audubon of Florida Save Our Suwannee
Florida Wildlife Federation Rainbow River Conservation
Florida Sierra Club Homosassa River AllianceFlorida Defenders of the Environment Friends of Lower Suwannee River
The Nature Conservancy St Johns Riverkeeper
Save the Manatee Club Apalachicola Riverkeeper
North Florida Springs Alliance Our Santa Fe River
Global Underwater Explorers Putnam Co. Environmental Council
February 4 allahassee Scientifc Society Lecture: R.A.
Gray Auditorium, 500 S. Bronough. At 7:00 p.m.Cynthia Barnett , writer or Florida rend andauthor will present “Blue is the New Green: WaterSustainability and the Future o Florida.”
admission ees apply.13 Hands Across the Sand Rally: Join Hands Across
the Sand or a rally in allahassee to tell legislatorsthat drilling on Florida’s coast is non-productiveand should not be allowed within Florida controlled waters. Details, page 5
16 Florida Springs Rally: A special event that will beheld at the Capitol during a Legislative committee week. Details, page 7
Chapter/Audubon Events January 23 Bird Banding at all imbers: Observe bird band-
ing and enjoy casual birding. Details, page 1
28 Program Meeting: Jim Cox rom the all imbersResearch Station will talk about how conservation orgame birds benets other bird species. Details, page 1
30 Birding at Maclay Gardens State Park: Guided
walk o the park’s avorite hangouts or over- wintering birds. Details, page 1
February 13-15 Great Backyard Bird Count: ID and count birds in
your own yard, a park, retention pond, or join other Audubon members at Fran Rutkovsky’s or the sta atMaclay Gardens or a group counting eort.
20 Backyard Wildlie our: Backyard Wildlie ourund raiser at selected allahassee home sites.
aPalaChee auduBon SoCieTy Calendar: January-FeBruary 2010
See page 3 for upcoming program speakers and topics.
Page 1 photo, Bobwhite Quail, courtesy of Wikipedia
Note: A reminder that Gaines Street is undergoing construction and portions o the road will be closed ater 7:00 p.m.
Social begins at 7:00, meeting at 7:30 p.m. Located at the historic Amtrak Station, 918 Railroad Avenue—map on page 2. Formore information, call (850)510-4877 or visit: www.apalachee.org
Your membership expiration date is shown at top right above your name. For problems with membership, call the NationalAudubon Society Ofce at 1-800-274-4201. For problems with mailings, contact Pam Flynn at [email protected].
