• equo1a Bulletin of the Sequoia Audubon Society San Mateo County Volume 46, No. 3 • eedles November, 1996 This Month's Program Memories Of Costa Rica The Creeks Of The Peninsula Birding With Dan Keller Karen Cotter, Streamkeeper (First of Two Parts) Program Director for Coyote Creek Rich Kuehn Riparian Station, will present a talk In August I traveled to Costa Rica with and a slide show on creeks in San nine other members of the San Francisco Bay Mateo and Santa Clara Counties. The Bird Observatory for 16 days of fantastic bird slide show, "Creeks: Life Lines tn ing under the tutelage of Dan Keller. Inasmuch Wildlife," features some of the unique wildlife and as Dan plans to lead another trip frotl'l January plant life found in and near our local creeks, potential 5-18, 1997, from which Sequoia Audubon will threats to these unique habitats, and shows simple benefit, I want to share some of my memories in hopes it will encourage things that every resident can do to maintain and pre others to visit this wonderful birding destination. serve these diverse ecosystems. Often called the Switzerland of Central America, Costa Rica boasts Coyote Creek Ripar- more than 830 avian species in an area smaller than West Virginia. This ian Station is located in ~200 richness of species is due to its divergent habitat and to its geographic lo Alviso. The Station has cation in the "bottleneck" between the two large land masses of North and been studying bird utiliza South America. Our trip ventured into all the major habitats as we trav Way tion of riparian corridors Hwy. 02 eled from Caribbean foothill forests to the middle elevations and into the and performing biological Talamanca highlands before dropping back into the Caribbean lowlands . surveys of creeks in Santa Later we went to the semi-arid ranch lands of Guanacasta in the North Clara County, Al8meda. de le Pulgas • west and on to the transition (humid/dry) lowland forest on the Pacific The meeting is slope. Thursday, November 14 at H....y.101 We departed SFO at 8:30PM and after a brief stop at Los Angeles, 7:30 PM at the San Mateo we left on our overnight flight to San Jose, Upon clearing immigration, Garden Center at Parkside we were joined by Jay Vandergaast, a Canadian biologist employed as a on Alameda. birding guide by P.,i:: 'ho Naturalista, the first of the five lodges we would visit on our private bus. The city soon gave way to hills, which had been cleared for coffee, The Christmas Counts Are sugarcane, and other crops. The towns became smaller as we climbed out Coming! of the Central Valley into the Tuis-Turri alba region of the Tamalanca Mountains and we arrived at our comfortable resort. Because of Dan Keller's increasing involvement as a tour leader conjunction with Costa Rica's Rancho Even before we had eaten lunch, members began adding to their life Natlll'alista (see this month's leading article), this lists with sightings of White-necked Jacobins, Rufous-tailed and Violet year's Christmas Count Compilers will be AI DeMar headed Hummingbirds; Blue-gray, White-lined, Scarlet-rumped, and Palm tini and Robin Smith. Tanagers; Great Kiskadee, Tropical Kingbird, Social Flycatcher, Gray headed Chachalaca, Hoftinan's Woodpecker and the Clay-colored Robin, It's not too early to s1gn up for either or both Costa Rica's national bird. It was all we could do to finish our meal before counts. Just fill in the application on Page Six and heading out on some of the almost seven miles of trails. A trip to the send it on to the office so that our new compilers can nearby "Berry Patch' hummingbird feeders added Green Hennit, Little get their paperwork started. Hermit, Green-crowned Brilliant and the more rare Snowcap (Rancho Every year Sequoia's two counts rank among the Naturalista is one 1i(thekw places in the world where this little humming top ten in the nation in number of species identified. hint call he calh:d conmw11. --Fcl.). Red-footed Plumeleteer, and Purple Yet, among the top counts we traditionally have the crowned Fairy. lowest number of participants' WE NEED YOU' (Continued on Page Four)
~"' s~ u ~~ a.dWe4 i« ~~.ad~ ad i« t4e llu Sequoia Audubon Society 1 November, 1996 The S A S Calendar ~~ ~ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2- STUDENT FIELD TRIP TO WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4- REDWOOD SHORES • THE PALO ALTO BAY LANDS - Bring binoculars, an adult, FIELD TRIP- These points of land between Foster City and and a spotting scope if you have one available. Directions: Take Bair Island appear desolate and dusty in the summer, but can be 101 to Palo Alto and exit on Embarcadero East. Go past the air teeming with birdlife in the winter when the rains tum the for- port to the end of the road and tum left to the Baylands. Meet at mer salt and oxidation ponds into shallow pools ideal for many the Duck Pond at 9:30AM. You can.park at the Duck Ponds or shorebirds and dabbling ducks. The area also has grassy areas across the road from it. Anyone (including adults) is welcome (unfortm1ately slated for future development), sloughs and oxi to attend, but please notify the leaders. The trip will break up at dation ponds where horned larks, tri-colored blackbirds, diving II :30 AM. For further information contact the leaders. ducks and larger shorebirds can also be found. To get there take LEADERS: ROBIN SMITH 325- 3306 Hwy.l 01 to the Holly Street/Redwood Shores Parkway exit. Fol MARY BRESSLER 994 - 3687 low Redwood Shores Parkway to the overseas radio broadcasting MAY BLOSSOM-WILKERSON station, where the road takes a sharp right tum. We will meet there at 9:00A.M. Although there will be very little walking, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2- BOOK-SIGNING PARTY some of the areas may be muddy so boots are recommen'ded. SAN PEDRO VALLEY COUNTY PARK- SAS will take Trip should break up at noon. RAIN CANCELS THE TRIP. over the Visitors' Center for a celebration and book-signing LEADER NICK COIRO 349-1834 party for the new and revised San Francisco Peninsula Bird watching. 1-5 PM. Authors, illustrators and committee members PRINCETON HARBOR FIELD TRIP- THURSDAY, DE will be present to celebrate the completion of and sign copies of CEMBER 12-The only sheltered harbor between Santa Cruz the book. and San Francisco, Princeton Harbor is winter home to a good variety of bay ducks, loons, connorants and WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6- COY other divers as well as gulls and shorebirds. OTE POINT- A special week-day field Not only does the harbor usually have one trip to explore the birds and environmental or two surprises, but the nearby willows, assets of this very special area. The trip will cypresses and grasslands have proven to b. begin at 9:00AM. We will meet at the lower first-rate warbler traps. Clay-colored spar end of the museum parking lot near the pic rows, palm and prairie warblers are only a nic benches. RAIN CANCELS THE TRIP. few of the species that have wintered here the last few years. To get there take Hwy. LEADER NICK COIRO 349-1834 92 to Hwy. I and follow Hwy. I north to Capistrano Rd. and tum left at the lights. THURSDAY,NOVEMBER7-BOARD Go past the marina and take the next left at OF DIRECTORS MEETING at the Se Prospect Way/Harvard Avenue. Follow quoia Audubon Office at 7:30PM. All mem Harvard west a couple of blocks tmtil it bers are welcome. Please call al1ead to be ends where we will meet at 9:00A.M. This sure to confinn time and space. will be a walking trip along the beach and rocks with some areas of broken footing, so boots or sturdy shoes are recommended. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14 - GENERAL MEETING at The trip should break up at noon. the San Mateo Garden Center on the Alameda at Parkside. An LEADER CAROL MILLER informal get-together begins at 7:30 with the General Meeting and Program at 8 PM. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17- SHARP PARK SHORELINE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21 -THE CRYSTAL SPRINGS AND GOLF COURSE. This area can be extremely productive CHRISTMAS COUNT- SEE PAGE SIX FOR THE SIGN as it encompasses a harbor with scoters, loons and mergansers, UP SHEET. SIGN tJP NOW! WE NEED YOUR HELP! a beach, a fresh-water marsh and isolated groves of trees, all of which have been known to yield surprises. We will meet at 9 AM at the Anchor Momunentjust south ofthe fishing pier on Sharp Park Beach. The trip should break up at noon .. Heavy SATURDAY, JANUARY 4-THEANO NUEVO CHRIST- rain cancels the trip. MAS COUNT- SEE PAGE SIX FOR THE SIGN-IJP • SHEET. SIGN UP NOW! WE NEED YOUR HELP! LEADER JUDI SPITLER 355-9362 November, 1996 2 Sequoia Audubon Socie(v We are also accepting donations to fur not against the law, but the banded bird The Education ther this program as well. was obviously not bred locally, and so Committee in Any checks should be made out to was a violation of the law. the Sequoia Audubon Society and mailed This type of"hunting"(?) takes Action to the Education Committee, Sequoia place all over the US and there is little Audubon, 30 W. 39th Ave., #202, San regulation of managed shooting pre The Education Committee is spon Mateo, CA 94403. If you are making do serves. Not surprisingly, Rep. Ford has soring three classroom programs for the nations to a specific program of a specific fought legislation to regulate or curb current school year. class, be sure to include a note outlining shooting on private preserves. Audubon Adventures is National your wishes. To their credit most duck hunters Audubon's program aimed And finally the Education Commit deplore this kind of senseless slaughter at elementary school chil tee will once again even while resisting legislation that dren in grades four to six. make its Environmental ~ would regulate private hunting clubs or The program includes six Education Award to "preserves". issues of the Auduhon Ad any educator or private ventures newspaper, with an citizen who makes out- individual copy for each student, and an standing contributions Birding Name Quiz accompanying teacher's resource manual through public education to increase un Bill Principe integrating math, science, social studies, derstanding of the interdependence within The following are REAL NAMES language and creative arts. In order to the natural world and the awareness of used in the past. They are taken from give the teachers greater tlexibility and the i1eed for protecting native ecosystems. Grinnell and Miller (1944, The /Jistribu more time to plan, all 6 issues will be de tion of the Hirds of' ( 'af!lomia, Pacific livered early in the school year rather This Is Hunting? Coast Avifauna 27.), which is the stan than spaced out as they were in the past. A few years back you may recall dard reference tor California birds. They The topics for the 1996-97 school year that a Washington, D.C. are altemate, local or obsolete names for are: Animal Communications; Marine ~~- t lobbyist, paid~ $4,000 regularly occurring California birds. Mammals; Pondering Pond Life; Snakes, _ }~~ fine for illegally shooting Identify the birds by their current Life Styles of the Thin and Squamous; -:~ over a baited field. It now names. (Hint: A knowledge of scientific Songbirds and Wildflowers. appears that Thomas H. names will help with some of these.) A Last year students in over 15,000 Boggs, who is with the Washington law NO FAIR CHEATING (That means W classrooms were enrolled nationwide. Se firm ofPonon, Boggs, and Blow, paid the leave your copy of Grinnell and Miller on quoia is accepting applications from the tine to protect Rep. William Ford of the shelf.) county public schools but the program is Michigan and 20 other guests from the 1. Cow Troopial also available to private schools. embarrassment of being charged with a 2. Tell-tale Tattler Sequoia Audubon Society has budg federal hunting violation. 3. Long-clawed Towhee Bunting eted funds to sponsor 25 teachers in San The citation was issued after wild 4. Brown Gooney Mateo County classrooms. The enroll life officials watched the group fire more 5. Purple Coat-tail Gracie ment fee is $35 per classroom. In the than 700 shotgm1 blasts in less than 45 6. Rusty Maggot-eater past, we were able to sponsor more than minutes, killing at least 182 ducks and 7. Black-tailed Flycatcher 60 classrooms with the help of private wounding an undetennined number. 8. Ground Wren donations. If you want to sponsor a class (That kind of firepower was probably 9. Bowbill Thrush room- public or private, specific or greater than was expended in the Spanish 10. Oregon Robin general, this county or anywhere else - American War.) A federal agent who 11. Titlark your donation will be appreciated. saw the shooting, was quoted as saying, 12. Crested Shining-black White- Tn a new multi-media interactive "Ducks were failing out of the air all over winged Flysnapper venture Sequoia is hoping the place. There were crippled ducks 13. Blue-headed Greenlet to sponsor two classrooms swimming everywhere." He described 14. Colorado Turkey in National Audubon's the shoot as one of the most lethal he had 15. Henry Mock-thrush WILD WINGS program. ever seen, and said that one of the reasons 16. Red-billed Mud-hen This program is being of officials stopped the shoot was because 17. Western Sea Dove fered to classrooms that none of' the hunters stopped to collect the 18. Bell Bunting can access the Intemet and birds they had killed. (So much for the 19. Foolish Guillemot a local PBS channel. (Our hunting ethics of this group.) 20. Chaparral Cock current problem is finding The citation was issued over only 21 . Flame Bearer a channel carrying the pro- one of the ducks. That bird bore a Fish 22. Red-moJ,Istached Woodpecker • gram). It consists of three electroni~ field and Wildlife band and could be positively 23. Ant-eating Woodpecker -trips to the Bosque del Apache National identified as being a migrant. Shooting 24. Black Woodcock Wildlife Refuge where guides will an hand-raised ducks over a baited pond is You'll find the answers on Page 7. swer some student questions on the air. Sequoia Audubon Socie~)' 3 November, 1996 there in Spring and it also pmdtu:f:'d tlw produced Emerald Toucanet, Flame Costa Rica most spectacular thunderstorm v.•atching Tanager, Yellow-bellied Siskin, Ruddy (Continued from Page One) I've ever experif:'nced ··Ed.) capped Nightingale-thrush, Spotted- A short walk further and we saw After breakfast, we would split into crowned Woodcreeper, Yellow-thighed A nesting Golden-hooded Tanagers, Col two groups and walk the trails. These led Finch, Large-footed Finch, Black-capped .. lared Trogons, Whitefronted Nunbirds, into recovering second-growth forests or Flycatcher, Collared Redstart, Flame- Dusky Antbird, Spotted Antbird, Squirrel through pasture land studded with bushes throated and Black-cheeked Warblers Cuckoo and Groove-billed Ani. Before and trees. An ant swarm was everyone's amongst the birds I remember. The cli- dark, we also added Common Tody sought-after prize, as antbirds and other mate here is even cooler at night than in flycatcher, Mistletoe Tyrannulet, Gray species follow and feast on the ants and the Bay Area, but the days warm up breasted Martin, Southern Rough-winged the other insects escaping the oncoming rapidly and Blue-and-white Swallows, Brown swarm. Fruit trees also yielded mixed (To be continued next month.) lays, Bananaquits, Rufous-capped War species flocks. One morning we rose Dan's January 5-18, 1997 trip cost bler, Montezuma's Oropendola, Bronzed early and rode to the lush Carib will be $1850 per person. This price in Cowbird, Black-cowled Oriole, bean forests of the Tapanti Re cludes lodging TEMS FOR SALE OR REN Items Sold at SAS Items Mailed to Office or at Meetings Customers BIRDER'S HANDBOOK- Ehrlich, Dobkin and Wheye 17.50 20.00 BIRDING AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BAY- SCVAS 10.75 13.00 BIRDING NORTHERN CALIFORNIA- Jean Richmond 10.50 13.00 ENJOYING HUMMINGBIRDS MORE- various 3.50 4.50 MONO LAKE GUIDEBOOK- David Gaines 6.00 8.50 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC FIELD GUIDE 22.00. 24.50 SPECIES IN DANGER IN OUR BACKYARD-Jamison 5.00 6.00 PACIFIC COAST CHECKLISTS -Pads of 25 3.00 3.50 SAN MATEO COUNTY or FOSTER CITY CHECKLISTS .75 1.50 "I'd Rather Be Birding" BUMPER STICKER 1.50 2.00 SEQUOIA AUDUBON SOCIETY PATCH 2.50 2.75 VIDEOS FOR RENT: • TECHNIQUES OF BIRDING -Arnold Small $2.00 per week Please call to make • VIDEO GUIDE TO BIRDS OF N.A.- 5 Tapes $5 per tape/per wk. arrangements for rental of video tapes by mail. ALL PRICES INCLUDE SALES TAX Please make all checks payable to: Sequoia Audubon Society 30 West 39th A venue, Suite 202 • San Mateo, CA 94403-5671 5 Novemher. I 996 COME COUI/f' Wlf'B US! Calling All Birders to the 1997 Christmas Bird Counts December brings a chance to participate in one of our chapter's most important activities. Sequoia Audubon holds two Christmas Bird Counts each year. This year, the Crystal Springs Count will be held on Saturday, December 21 followed by the Ano Nuevo Count on Saturday, January 4, 1997. All levels of birders are WELCOME and NEEDED. join a team, enjoy the camaradeie, have fun and contribute to the effort!!! What makes this event so successful? For most, its lots of fun. For some, its the competition. Our counts are among the top ten nearly every year in numbers of species counted. For many, its the chance to participate in a vital scientific endeavor. Each year, the data from more than 1500 counts is published in Audubon Field Notes and entered into a master database at Cornell University. This resource is tapped over and over again by scientists and researchers worldwide to uncover important trends. There is simplyno bet ter source for bird population information. SO, please join us for one or both counts. Send your check and registration form to the Sequoia Audubon office along with your name, telephone number and address. For more information call the t>ffice (415-345-3724) during office hours, Tuesday through Thursday, 9AM to 12:30 PM or call Robin Smith (415-325-3306) in the evening. It realty helps the compilers to know as soon as possible who will particxipate. Teams need to be organ ized and information sent to the team leaders. Please fill out the form TODAY and send it on its way. The 1996 Christmas Counts SEQUOIA AUDUBON SOCIETY REGIS71MTION FORM THE 1996 CHRISTMAS COUNTS I would like to participate in the: D Crystal Springs Bird Count ($5 Fee)-- December 21, 1996 I would prefer to count on the Coastside D l would prefer to count along the Bayside D l will attend the compilation dinner ($5) D Please cut out or copy this form Aiio Nuevo Bird Count ($5 Fee)-- January 4, 1997* and mail it with your check to D Christmas Counts D I will count my feeder or backyard (NO FEE REQUIRED) Sequoia Audubon Society On December 21 (Crystal Springs Count) D 30 West 39th Avenue, #202 San Mateo, CA 94403 On January 4 (Aiio Nuevo Count) D Name------Address______City ______.Zip ______ Telephone______*No compilation dinner on 1/4/97 • November, 1996 6 Sequoia Audubon ,\'ociety 18. Sage Sparrow (The scientific immediate future of the species in the Answers - Birding name is A. he IIi.) state, but recent evidence suggests that on 19. Common Murre (These birds at least one site the hawks are not only Names Quiz were considered notoriously holding on, they are beginning to in (Comments by Bill Principe are in stupid by eggers who easily crease. The US. Bureau of Land Man parentheses ( ). Comments by the Editor robbed their nests on the agement's San Pedro Riparian are in brackets [] and italici:::ed) Farallones in the nineteenth Conservation Area harbors about 40 per • 1. Brown-headed Cowbird cent of the gray hawks left in the United century.) f/Jiackhirds are nwmlwrs o(lhe 20. Greater Roadrunner States, and since 1986 the nesting popula truupialfamily. I 21. Allen's Hummingbird tion there has increased from 11 to 18 2. Greater Yellowlegs (Selasphoms means pairs, and the total number of birds from 3. Spotted Towhee "flame-bearer".) 40 to more than 55. The increases fol 4. Black-footed Albatross (Some 22. Northern Flicker lowed removal of livestock from riparian people guessed Brown Booby, 23. Acorn Woodpecker /!thought and adjacent mesquite habitats, allowing but albatrosses are the ones this was anotlwr trick repeat, new vegetation to become established. known as "goony birds".) since/lickl:'rs eatnu1re ants than 5. Brewer's Blackbird (Most any other North Anwrit·an bird I people guess Great-tailed 24. Pileated Woodpecker Kes~rels Grackle.) Highway 6. Brewer's Blackbird (Sorry, a Hot Eiders In Iowa where nest cavities are rela tively scarce, researchers discovered a trick repeat.) In 1995, US Fish and Wildlife Serv novel way to remedy the problem. They 7. Say's Phoebe ice biologists Greg Balogh and Bill used the backs of highwav signs along 8. Wrentit fNeitlwr old or current Larned fitted Spectacled Eiders with tiny Interstate 35 as supports for kestrel nest name makes sense to me. I transmitters. Weeks after most of the bat boxes. During a five-year period from 9. California Thrasher (The generic teries had died, a signal was detected 1988 to 1992, the average yearly occu name is Toxostoma, which from a lone female far offshore in the pancy rate of the fifty monitored nest translates as "bow mouth") Bering Sea pack ice. The biologists boxes was 45 percent, a number that 10. Varied Thrush (Shame on you if tracked the hen's signal to the eiders' compares favorably with rates in other you missed this one.) winter hangout~ holes in the pack ice. North American locations. The number 11 . American Pipit They found 155,000 of these eiders of nests producing young was also en 12. Phainopepla (Do you know of crammed into small holes scattered across couraging with a yearly average of 69 any other crested, shiny, black the Bering Sea. flycatcher? Rumor has it that percent. European Starlings were quick • Only the birds' movements and to take up residence in boxes unused by after coming up with Saltmarsh body heat kept the holes open and the bi Sharp-tailed Sparrow and Pacific kestrels, but there was evidence that kes ologists were astounded when clouds of Slope Flycatcher, the AOU is trels actually evicted starlings from some steam rose from the pools. going to officially adopt this boxes. The highway signs provided name.) Although eiders are largely vegetar strong supports for the boxes, and the 13. Solitary Vireo (Greenlets are ian on the breeding grounds, the specula signs' height discouraged predators. small, tropical vireos.) tion is that they subsist on krill ~ 14. Wood Stork fMakt-'S sense. nwy abundant in the paack ice~ in winter. Laysan Fever aren 't.fimnd in ( 'olorado and For the last several years, biologists don't look like turkeys. !'he logic Livestock & Wildlife and field workers in the remote Hawaiian is ofn•ious. I Islands have been coming down with a 15. Crissal Thrasher (The first Don't Mix mysterious illness. The symptoms are description was published by an More Evidence similar to those of Lyme disease and in ornithologist named Henry.) fAt The gray hawk (Hut eo nitidll.\) is a clude fatigue, body aches, nausea, fever one time, thrashers, mimic small woodland raptor whose US range is and pain in the joints. It is not fatal and thmshes a/Iii shrikes were all confined to southeastern Arizona. It has the long-term effects are as yet unknown. !uiiiJWd together as 11/tll'k never been very common there and in re The victims have all been in or near thrushes. I cent years there was concern that it might seabird nest colonies and avian ticks are 16. Common Moorhen (No one has be on the verge of disappearing from the thought to be the carriers of the disease missed this one yet.) f/'1/ gil'e United States portion of its range. The but final proof is still missing. extm points/ill' om· one who principal cause was thought to be habitat said ( 'on/11/lill ( lallinule. / destruction. The gray hawk, a riparian 17. Pigeon Guillemot /I'm still species, needs extensive stands of mature • Revolution:• • In••• politics, • an abrupt• • holding mit/in· Hlad cottonwood trees for nesting and nearby change in the fonn of misgovernment. '!111'1/Stlll/e. I expanses of mesquite for hunting. Ari zona officials expressed concern for the Ambrose Bierce • Sequoia Audubon Socict' 7 November, 1996 Gifts and Bequests Sequoia J\udubon welcomes gills. in general or on hehalr ot~ or in memory or relatives or triends Such gills mav be dc·;tgnatcd t(n educatlllll or f(Jr the advancement or the obJectives or the Society. Please send your glll in the t(mn or a check tP the Sequoia /\udui>on SocH.:ty. Inc J\11 gills. donations and bequests \\ill be acknowledged in the .'VloFDLloS and personal!\' on behalf or the Socid) J\11 gills arc ta;;-dcductiblc Anne Moser Sequoia Nt.'EDLlcS i' publi,hcxl monthly c'Cccpt in January, July and ,\ugust. :\kmbcrs arc cncouraged to submit material to bc publishcd 111 the .·\1cEI>l.lcS The deadline for the submission of materials is the !irs! day of the month preceding publication. These mav he original ar1icles. original at1\\orl-. or car1 Please send LATE RENE\V.\LS or :\E\V 1\lE:\IBERSIIIPS through Sequoia .\udubon Socict) to 111""" ,·,mtinuitv clfncllsktkr or ma;· uinc subsc-rtptinns. OFFI<'ERS STA:\D!NG ('O'VIl\l!TTEES President Francis Toldi 344-1 ')] ') .\CR Hosting .lulia \fandcl·ilk 'JX'J-X'J'i 1 Past President Anni.2' 1\1uS42:r J24-l71l\ .\udit Vice-presid~nt Debbie Fran!; 571-6759 ( 'hrishnas ( 'ount .\1 Di1\lartini Rnhin Smith Secretary Shirl~y lligu~ra 5')5-21 X7 Cons~rvation Lilccn .knnis-Sauppc 72(>-lllX I 'l'reasun.:r Tom Vanden-Bosch 169-X.\05 Education Hobin Smith 125-.l.l()(, DIRE<'TORS hdd Trips-Wcd,da) Ni..:h Coiro .'4'J-JX.l4 Term ending '97 Richard 1-.:udm 591A.1XO Wccl-.cmb Judi Spitler 1)).<).\(,2 Eileen knnis-Sauppc 72(>-IOXJ N/~HJL/<,'S Editor Clill' Richct X73-1754 RARE BIRD ALERT Tcnn ending '98 Rohin Smith .125-3.106 Circulation Editor Sui.! Co;.;sin~ .147- SEQUOIA AUDUBON SOCIETY NON-PROFIT ORG. We Invite your membership in the National 30 West 39th Avenue, #202 U.S.POSTAGE PAID Audubon Society & SAS. 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