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Highland Lakes Steward Highland Lakes Steward HIGHLAND LAKES CHAPTER July 2012 Volume 3, Issue 7 MISSION The Texas Master ONE OF MY FAVORITE SUMMER ACTIVITIES AS A Naturalist program is a natural resource- CHILD WAS SLEEPING OUTSIDE By Freddie Franki based volunteer train- One of my favorite summer activities as opy cover ing and development program sponsored a child was sleeping outside. We had some and debris statewide by Texas friends who lived on a ranch close to Drift- of leaves AgriLife Extension wood and Camp Ben McCullough in Travis and old and the Texas Parks County. In August, before school started, tree limbs. and Wildlife Depart- we were allowed to sleep out on top of They also ment. The mission of the their flat-roofed carport! This was usually like to hang program is to develop over a weekend so we spent two or three out in tall a corps of well- nights doing that. It was the greatest ad- grass dur- informed volunteers venture and very little sleeping occurred. ing the day. who provide educa- tion, outreach, and The night sounds and smells are so differ- And a very service dedicated to ent from daytime. There was always a interesting the beneficial manage- good breeze up there, so no mosquitos. theory is ment of natural re- We had a ladder to go up and down, con- the loss of sources and natural venient for raiding the kitchen. Telling dark sky areas within their communities for the scary stories in the dark makes one very has caused a decline in firefly population. state of Texas hungry. And it was dark out there, away Current studies show that artificial lighting from town with no street lights. We did causes fireflies to act differently meaning OFFICERS carry flashlights but only a sissy would sug- they don’t flash and therefore don’t com- President gest turning on the porch light. municate. Less flashing means less mating Fredi Franki And that is the point of this story, the and according to the research, fewer little [email protected] (830) 637-7197 dark sky. Soon after sundown, before get- fireflies. ting on the roof, we could catch fireflies. The rest of my story has to do with the Vice-President We thought it was so cool to take a jar of starry sky. Besides catching fireflies and Linda O’Nan [email protected] fireflies up on the roof for “extra light”. telling scary stories, we always had a con- (830) 693-6126 There was something magical about it. Fire- test to see who could count the most fal- Secretary flies are beetles; I believe our local variety ling stars. As it happens, August is the Sondra Fox is a Photinus within the beetle order Col- month for the most beautiful of all meteor [email protected] eoptera. Their light is used for communi- showers, the Persied. Meteors are pieces (512) 695-5725 cation with each other. There are thou- of rock and dust from a comet’s tail, in this Treasurer sands of firefly species around the world case the Swift-Tuttle Comet which orbits Phillip Mitchell and most are bioluminescent but those that the sun. Every August the Earth passed phillipmitchell are not use pheromones to communicate. through the tail of this comet. Some of the @gmail.com (830) 693-0184 I rarely see fireflies anymore and research debris enters our atmosphere causing it to shows they are disappearing. The cause is burn brightly as it falls toward Earth. The the usual list - loss of habitat, pesticides, Persied meteor shower appears from the and too much mowing. Fireflies need some direction of the constellation Perseus, thus woodland environment that includes a can- (Continued page 3) Page 2 Highland Lakes Steward our UHLNC officers have been doing hiking programs INSIDE THIS ISSUE: for the members at RPR and keeping the gate plants watered. Not much else to do except for planning un- One of my Favorite Summer Activities as a 1 Child was Sleeping Outside til fall when we can start working on a second nature Fredi Frankie trail, some kids fishing programs and maybe a bird blind. August Meeting 2 Summer Skies (Continued from page 1) Nature Center News 2 its name. History records the Persied shower as far Billy Hutson back as 36 A.D. There are several notable meteor Exciting New Project! 2 showers throughout the year, each named for the con- Sammye Childers stellation from whence it appears to radiate. For example, the The Swallow Family and World Bird Numbers 3 Leonids shower in November seems to radiate from the constel- Scorpions 4 lation Leo. Phil Wyde The Constellation Perseus is in Galleries 7 our northern sky and within the Milky Way. Events and AT/Volunteer Opportunities 10 The Persied shower is so nu- merous and bright that you don’t need to find the constellation Perseus, the meteors appear throughout the sky from midnight until right before dawn. You may see 50 per UGUST EETING by Linda O’nan A M hour if you have a dark sky and open horizon. This year the show starts late July/early August with the Our August 1 meeting at the Kingsland Library will peak occurring August 11/12 and 12/13. There will be feature Jake Abels, who will give us a report on camp a waning crescent moon rising at midnight which with the "Brigades". This is awards month with some should reduce the seeing only slightly. Unfortunately great numbers to share. We also will have more in- artificial lighting has made the stars disappear, along formation on a field trip to the Texas Memorial Mu- with the fireflies. But most of us are lucky, we live seum on August 14. Stay cool and join us! away from town or can easily drive out of town for good night sky viewing. So check it out in August, look for fireflies and falling stars. Nature Center News by Billy Hutson EXCITING NEW PROJECT! The summer heat and vacations usually slow down the meetings for the HLMN and HLBWS for a month The 2012 Training Class Program was completed or two and the same goes for the Nature center. Since with surplus dollars. To put those dollars to effective the kids science program investors chose to locate in use, it was suggested to the Board that we purchase an Johnson City we have had to drop back to our original EnviroScape Wetlands Model to use as a valuable edu- plan to raise money for the first large building with cational and public outreach tool. The Board has en- grants and local donors. We can't start with those thusiastically approved this new project. campaigns until we get our 501(C)(3) for which the Now we need to build a team to develop and pre- IRS has not assigned an agent to yet. They are seri- sent educational programs to a variety of audiences. If ously behind with a large backlog I am told. My last you are interested in participating in this project, conversation with them indicated that we should be please contact Sammye Childers at sammyen- coming up on the block in a month or two. [email protected] or 830.693.5061 In the meanwhile, to keep the momentum going, To learn more about this model please access www.enviroscapes.com/wetlands.html . Volume 3, Issue 7 July 2012 Page 3 T HE SWALLOW FAMILY AND WORLD BIRD NUMBERS by Sherry Bixler Swallows and martins are closely related; all belong to the Hirundinidae family. There are eight species in North America plus two accidental species: Common House Martins are occasionally seen in Alaska and the Bahama Swallow sometimes appears in the Florida keys. The six hill country species in- clude Purple Martins, Bank Swal- lows, Northern Rough-winged Swallows, Cave Swallows, Barn Swallows and Cliff Swallows. The Tree Swallow and Violet-green Swallow are rare migrants but have been recorded here. Swallows are swift flyers and much easier to identify when they are perching on limbs or wires. Purple martins love to use man-made nests which lows build mud nests against walls, in caves and under makes them easy and fun to watch. (Note that in bridges. western states the purple martin prefers to nest in Birds in flight may be harder to identify but are of- tree cavities and will rarely use man-made houses). ten easier to count when bird numbers are needed. Purple martins are also the only species that can be all Christmas bird counts, hawk watches, shorebird dark below. Barn swallows are easily identified by their counts, area counts and habitat surveys provide much long, forked tails. Cliff and Cave Swallows have orange needed information regarding these numbers. Count to rust rumps and throats with mature Cliff Swallows information has given Texas a claim to fame as it usu- having the darker colors. Bank and Northern Rough- ally has the highest number of species in winter counts winged Swallows have brown backs and pale bellies and only California and Florida join Texas in having but the Bank Swallow has a band of brown across its 300 or more species in winter. Checking eBird's data chest. reports is a good way to find more information on Their slender bodies and pointed wings help them bird counts. dart to catch insects and, like the swifts, they are ex- Worldwide, most bird counts show that North and tremely valuable for keeping insect populations under Central America have about 2,000 species of birds. control. South America leads with 3,200 species and Asia has All swallows except Cave Swallows lay four to six 2,900.
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