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June – August 2018 VOL. 68 Issue # 4 The Osprey’s June-July-August 2018 Platform North Shore Audubon Society Serving Northern Nassau County Established1952 Evening Programs Fantastic New Native Plant Sale Manhasset Public Library close to 40% off retail price! 30 Onderdonk Ave. at Northern Blvd. 7pm Open to the public and free of charge For NSAS members only, Bayles Garden Center in Handicap accessible Port Washington is off ering a 20% discount on selected native plants. They will also deduct $5 off of every $25 http://manhassetlibrary.org spent on selected native plants. Once the grant money Membership meetings are the runs out then there will be no $5 discount so go soon. 4th Tuesday of the month, unless noted Bayles accepts credit card or cash. See the price list of plants on page 4. If you are not NSAS member you still See you on September 15th get $5 off of every $25 spent on native plants. at our Beach Clean Up and Fall Family Fun Day at Saturday, August 4 Garvies Point Musuem and Preserve 10am – 4pm Glen Cove GARVIES POINT MUSEUM DAY Hands-on nature programs & craft, guided tours of our Tuesday, June 26 – Friday, August 17 beautiful native butterfl y & bird-friendly gardens, begin- ner’s bird watching, Insect study, Garvies Family History GARVIES SUMMER DAY CAMPS Tour, fi lms & more! Fun for all ages, *$5.00 per person 5 Hands-on learning, activities & crafts for children yrs. & older, includes all activities & museum admission. 5-7 & 8-11 years old. Tuesday-Friday 9:30am- Free for current members. 12:30pm & 1-4pm OR 9:30am-4:00pm Be sure to stop by our Bird & Butterfl y-Friendly Nature I: Pond study, all about birds, fl owers & Gardens! seeds, composting & recycling (5-7, 8-11) Our gardens are full of mostly native fl owers that Nature II: Beach exploration, trees & leaves,insects attract pollinators, bees, butterfl ies, moths, hum- & spiders, gardens & pollination (5-7, 8-11) mingbirds and songbirds. Make sure to visit the Native American: Tools, artifacts, culture, shelter, bird and butterfl y-friendly gardens during the height pottery, games & legends, fi re & survival (5-7, 8-11) of bloom. (June-Sept) NEW!! Junior Geologist: Dinosaurs & fossils, rocks & minerals, erosion, rock collecting (5-7 only) Geology: Rocks & Minerals, water erosion, fossils, NSAS off ers members a quarterly print newsletter, or Garvies & Long Island geology (8-11 only) pdf email delivery, redesigned website and both a Face- book page and a group for more up to the minute infor- Morning (9:30am-12:30pm) & Afternoon (1-4pm) mation. www.northshoreaudbon.org sessions available. $150/CHILD/FOUR AM or PM SESSIONS. CHILDREN CAN STAY FOR 4 FULL DAYS for Thank You Whole Foods $300/CHILD. for generously supplying the Registration & pre-payment required. No refunds. refreshments at our general meetings. Whole Foods is located at Northern 10% discount for Current Family Plus members Blvd. and Port Washington Blvd. From the President: Peggy Maslow phane Perrault, Steven Schellenger and Liz Di- napoli. First Annual Plant Sale News Thanks to the heroic eff orts of Kathy Natale, Jill Fight the Long Island Sound Tunnel Vomacka and Veronica Victoria, NSAS’s fi rst na- NSAS is just getting organized as to how to fi ght the tive plant sale sold 275 plants from Glover Peren- tunnel proposed by Governor Cuomo that would nials. Fifteen people sent in the pre-sale order and go under Long Island Sound from Oyster Bay to received $190 in discounts from our Burke Grant Westchester County. There are many serious which was distributed by National Audubon. On problems with this proposal including the $31.5 the May 5th pick-up day at Garvies Point Muse- billion cost. There is an article in the Oyster Bay um and Preserve an additional 20 people bought Guardian, April 27, 2018. I have an email copy. plants that were available from Glover Perennials Contact me with your email and I will forward the and received $165 in discounts from the Burke article. Contact John Taylor, a trustee on the Bay- Grant. North Shore Audubon Society was award- ville Village Board, at 516 626 1439 and leave a ed a $1000 grant to deduct $5 from every $25 na- message if you want to help in the eff ort to defeat tive plant purchase. $120 was spent on printing this proposal. Several meetings in opposition have and publicity costs. already been held. Bird-Friendly Habitat Certifi cation Meeting with Congressman Suozzi Since April 11, I have visited nine yards to help National Audubon arranged a bird walk and meet- people’s properties become more bird-friendly. I ing with Congressman Tom Suozzi on May 12 at have made one trip to buy native plants with an- Welwyn Preserve, near where the congressman other trip imminent. 45 native plants were bought lives. Long Island Bird Conservation Manager with $120 worth of discount from the Burke Grant. Amanda Pachomski led the walk, joined by rep- Please contact me if you want advice on how to resentatives from three Audubon chapters, North make your yard a bird-friendly habitat. The cost of Shore, South Shore and HOAS and NAS and certifi cation is $20 and pays for the yard sign and AudubonNY policy representatives. After seeing benefi ts the Chapter. and hearing birds for an hour and a half, including a lone Red knot, we discussed the Migratory Bird Thank You Gardening Volunteers Treaty. Rep. Suozzi promised to try to protect it NSAS is responsible for the maintenance of two from being dismantled. He also revealed that a native plant gardens, relying on volunteers to weed bipartisan agreement including all Democrats and them. Thank you especially to Virginia Dankel for many Republicans was reached which directed her constant weeding of the Science Museum the military to consider climate change in their of Long Island native plant garden. Thank you to Karen Osterman, Hildur Palsdottir, Barbara Mal- lon, Tanya Clusener and Ken Krumenacker, who Migratory Bird Treaty Act still under threat volunteer for extensive weeding of SMLI and Bai- As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Mi- ley Arboretum native plant gardens. We will need gratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA), the law is under volunteers when we plant a new native plant gar- attack. Legislation in Congress (HR 4239), would den at Port Washington’s Cow Neck Penninsula end the ability to hold industries accountable for bird deaths. Historical Society. These proposals would prevent enforcement of Thank you ClimateWatch Volunteers “incidental” bird deaths, remove incentives for National Audubon’s Climatewatch research de- companies to adopt practices that protect birds pends on volunteer bird surveys. Thank you to from threats such as oil waste pits, and eliminate volunteers Ed Beecher, Barbara Garriel, Shelley penalties for companies that kill substantial num- Ventresca, Jennifer Wilson-Pines, Irene Bareis, bers of birds, including from large oil spills. Call Nancy Tognan, Ian Resnick, Lindy Nielsen, Ste- your Congressman to vote no . 2 SUMMER 2018 SPECIAL DISCOUNT BIRD WALK SCHEDULE Bayles Garden Center Walks are for beginners and experienced birders alike. Weather permitting, 88 S. Bayles Ave., Port walks start at 9:30AM unless indicated otherwise ***. If in doubt, please call Washington is off ering a special the trip leader. Please note: all phone numbers are area code 516 unless discount to NSAS members. noted. In most cases, the contacts are also leaders for the respective walks. Go to our website at www.northshoreaudubon.org for directions. We encourage carpooling, where possible. Please note there is a $10 per 20% off on seed and feeders, car fee at Sands Pt. Call leader for parking ideas. excluding sale items. Bring Schedule note: *** indicates early offi cial start time *indicates new parking in your National Audubon location. Check the Facebook page if the weather is uncertain membership card, or this NSAS WEDNESDAY LEADERLESS WALKS June newsletter. 6/6 Shu Swamp, Mill Neck Wed. 6/13 ***8am Nickerson Beach tern and skimmer colony OFFICERS - 2018-2020 423-0947 Stephane Peggy Maslow, President 883-2130 (hefty parking fee applies starting at 9am) Jill Vomacka, Vice President 671-9823 6/20 Oceanside Marine Nature Center Belinda Nielsen, Secretary 628-1315 6/27 Gerry Park (Roslyn), Cearmere and Hempstead Harbor Eva Turel, Treasurer 448-3528 DIRECTORS and COMMITTEE July RESPONSIBILITIES Education - Peggy Maslow 7/4 No Walk Membership - Kathryne Natale 759-0925 7/11 Bailey Arboretum Conservation - J.Wilson-Pines 767-3454 Publicity - Nancy Tognan 718-225-8064 7/18 Cow Meadow Park, Freeport Programs - Jill Vomacka, 671-9823 Jeanne 7/25 Clark Botanic Gardens, Albertson Millspaugh 723-9269 Field Trips - Barbara Garriel 628-9022 August Leaderless Walks-Wendy Murbach 546-6303 Editor - Jennifer Wilson-Pines 767-3454 8/1 Jones Beach Coast Guard Station Hospitality - Joyce Bryk 8/8 Garvies Point Museum and Preserve, Glen Cove Special Projects - Jill Vomacka 8/15 Norman J. Levy Park, Merrick APPOINTED COMMITTEES 8/22 Planting Fields Website Thomas Natale [email protected] www.northshoreaudubon.org 8/29 Bayard Arboretum ***10am Start time Field Notes Please send to: Rich Kelly e-mail New Audubon NY Executive Ana Paula Tavares [email protected] In addition to leading Audubon New York, she will also be leading Audubon Newsletter This newsletter is printed four times a year. Connecticut and serving in an advisory role to Audubon’s International Alli- Please submit articles for the newsletter to: ances program. Her goal is to strengthen and appropriately structure both Jennifer Wilson-Pines, 7 Cottonwood Road state teams in order to support this new vision. Birds do not recognize state Port Washington, NY 11050 boundaries; this new arrangement aims at increasing collaboration between email prefered [email protected] New York and Connecticut states with that thought in mind.
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