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The Owl and the Woodpecker • Paul Bannick Volume 55, Number 3 November 2009 The Owl and the Woodpecker • Paul Bannick Encounters with North America’s Most Iconic Birds Award-winning photog- rapher Paul Bannick will take you on a visual journey Great Gray Owl through eleven key North Acorn Woodpecker American habitats exploring the diversity of specific owl Both photos: © Paul Bannick and woodpecker species and the ways in which they define and enrich the ecosystems that they inhabit. We will see how their life histories are intertwined. Woodpeckers change and improve their landscape by carving cavi- ties that other animals then nest in and by define. This stunning photographic study drilling wells of sap that others feed upon. will be accompanied by stories and rich Owls are among the creatures that benefit natural history derived from thousands of from the activities of woodpeckers and, as hours in the field. a high-order predator, their presence indi- Paul Bannick has coupled his love of cates a healthy ecosystem. Paul provides the out of doors with his skill as a photog- a close look at familiar birds such as the rapher to create images intended to foster Northern Flicker and the Great Horned intimacy between the viewer and the sub- Owl as well as more rare species like the ject in order to educate and inspire conser- Smithsonian Guide to North American Ferruginous Pygmy Owl, Red-Cockaded vation efforts. After graduation from the Birds and many other books, magazines, and Woodpecker and North-American Spot- University of Washington, Paul worked for refuges in North America and Europe. His ted Owl and the habitat each helps to 15 years in the computer software industry first book, ‘The Owl and the Woodpecker’, with Aldus Corporation, Adobe Systems, published by The Mountaineers Books in and Microsoft. Wishing to combine his October of 2008, continues to be one of the Meeting Schedule passion for wilderness conservation with best selling bird books in North America. The next general meeting of his previous expertise, he focused his at- Mount Diablo Audubon Society tention on nonprofit work and currently BIRDING INFORMATION will be Thursday, November 5, in the Camellia Room of The Gar- serves as the Director of Development for Mary Scheele is a nature photographer dens at Heather Farm, Walnut Conservation Northwest (www.conser- and resident of Contra Costa County. She Creek. vationnw.org). Conservation Northwest spends June through September on Lopez 7:00 pm Birding Information is dedicated to protecting and connecting Island, one of the San Juan Islands in the 7:25 pm Announcements wild areas from the Pacific Coast to the State of Washington. Here she devotes 7:40 pm Refreshments,* door prize Canadian Rockies. 8:05 pm Speaker: Paul Bannick her time to photographing the birds and * Please remember to bring a cup. Paul’s work has appeared in Audu- wildlife of the islands. She is very pleased Thursday, December 3: bon Magazine, Sunset Magazine, Pacific to share her photographs, and love of John Muir Laws Northwest Magazine, the National Wildlife this magnificent area, with Mount Diablo Federation Guide to North American Birds, Audubon Society. DEDICATED TO HABITAT CONSERVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION the Quail —1— November 2009 President’s Corner Observations By Jimm Edgar By Maury Stern Welcome Our October general meeting took a Migration continues through the area and good part of the evening to honor two of many winter residents arrived. New Members our first and founding members, Harry and A raft of about a thousand Greater Scaup Kevin Barrett Mill Valley Betty Adamson. Diane Inman, who wrote was at Point Pinole, 10/12. LL Beth Branthaver Oakland the definitive work on Harry’s art, gave a At Briones RP in the evening of 9/28 KU wonderful talk about Harry and Betty’s life Analice Decker Walnut Creek probably saw a Common Poorwill. and Harry’s art work. It is such a privilege Louise Dutton Orinda that our chapter has this world-renowned On 10/4, JD saw Vaux’s Swifts over Til- Jane Matthewman Mill Valley den RP. artist among us. The chapter has given a John Stahler Antioch PS saw a at $2500 donation to Gray Lodge Wildlife Red-breasted Sapsucker John O. White Walnut Creek Area, which is in the Central Valley of Cali- Black Diamond Mines RP on 10/6. fornia, in Harry and Betty’s name. Two bird On 9/12, RL saw Western Wood-Pewee blinds were dedicated to Harry and Betty at Upper San Leandro Reservoir. FOS White-crowned Sparrows were seen by JC in Moraga, 9/15, PS in Antioch a few years ago at Gray Lodge. It was a fun PS saw Warbling Vireos in Antioch on 9/17, and HH in Walnut Creek on 9/19. evening and Harry is still painting at 93! 9/15 and 9/28. On 10/8, BA saw Golden-crowned Spar- August 20, 2009 was the tenth anniver- On 10/10 at Lafayette Reservoir, a Rock rows in Moraga. sary of the Endangered Species Act delist- Wren was on the face of the dam. PS saw a Black-headed Grosbeak in An- ing the Peregrine Falcon. This is one of the A FOS Hermit Thrush was at MS’s house tioch on 9/22. most remarkable conservation stories to in Lafayette on 9/27. ever happen. By 1970 the effects of DDT HH saw a Western Meadowlark at FOS Yellow-rumped Warblers were had nearly made the Falcon extinct. There Heather Farm on 9/24. This was the first seen on 9/19 at Heather Farm by HH, and were no breeding pairs east of the Missis- in many years there. in Kensington on 9/22 by JDu. sippi River and just two remaining pairs Abbreviations: BA Blaine Anderson, JC DW and KO saw an American Redstart in California. Attempts to breed the birds Judy Cooper, JD Joseph Dodge, JDu Judith at the Richmond Bay View Trail near 51st in captivity had all failed, but a new group Dunham, HH Hugh (and Rosita) Harvey, Street on 9/13. of biologists set out to reverse the failure. AK Alan Krakauer, RL Rob Lewis, LL UC Santa Cruz led the way and to date over Western Tanagers were seen 9/12 by RL Laura Look, KO Kitty O’Neil, TR Ted 1000 Peregrine Falcons have been released at Upper San Leandro Reservoir and TR Robertson, JR Jennifer Rycenga, PS Paul into the wild. One could very likely see at Tilden RP. (and Nancy) Schorr, MS Maury Stern, KU them in downtown San Francisco where PS saw a new yard bird, Savannah Spar- Ken-ichi Ueda, DW Denise Wight. FOS they have bred successfully on the PG&E row, on 9/25 in Antioch. First of Season, RP Regional Park building since 2003. It is encouraging to A Fox Sparrow at Tilden RP on 9/23 was Submit Contra Costa County sightings to realize that environmental challenges that FOS for TR. Maury Stern at [email protected] or seem overwhelming can be solved and AK saw Lincoln’s Sparrow on 9/18 in (925) 284-5980 or send sightings to EBB gives us hope for the next challenge. Wildcat RP near Richmond. Sightings. I went to hear Lisa Jackson speak re- cently in San Francisco. She is the newly appointed Administrator of the Environ- Trip Reports mental Protection Agency. She was very Antioch Dunes NWR, September 12. was past its season and we saw no Lange’s impressive and I believe we will see a lot of Lightning and thunder woke many early in Metalmark Butterflies. Hugh Harvey good things happening with environmen- the morning, but eight members still met Healdsburg Vaux’s Swifts, September tal issues in our country. to walk the dunes. There are few dunes left, 19. The evening return of Vaux’s Swifts to due to their removal for brick making, but an unused chimney near Healdsburg was this site along the Sacramento River has an every bit as exciting as the more than 165 This bird was given its interesting history. We learned much of the viewers expected. Nineteen members of name by a nephew of history, as well as the natural history, as we our chapter joined this throng as we stood, Napoleon, in honor of walked around the 41 acres of the western sat, ate, joked and waited for the estimated one of his friends and colleagues. An Stamm Unit. The 26-acre Sardis Unit is not 5–6,000 birds to return and begin flying old colloquial name was Blue Darter. open to the public. The weather was cool, into the chimney.The Rio Lindo Academy birds and butterflies were sparse, though welcomes evening viewers to watch this Unscramble these letters, or turn to it was noted that White-crowned Spar- spectacle, which lasts for about a month. Page 4 to learn more. ACEHKOOPRSW rows were busy amongst the Star Thistle We were very lucky to visit on a good night, and Naked Stem Buckwheat. Of the three the numbers of birds varies with the time endangered species which live in the ref- of the season and the daily weather. uge, we saw some Antioch Dunes Evening Hugh Harvey Primrose; the Contra Costa Wallflower Continued on Page 4 » the Quail —2— November 2009 Field Trip Schedule By Hugh Harvey November 7 Saturday . .Charleston Slough/South Bay Come birding with us 14 Saturday . .Davis Area/Vic Fazio in November! 21 Saturday . Limantour 23 Monday . .Mt. View Sanitary/McNabney Marsh Field trips are open to members and non-members, begin- December ners and advanced birders. Weather or other contingencies may 5–6 Saturday/Sunday .
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