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Volume XLIX, No.4 the CACTUS WREN•DIDTION JULY – AUGUST THE CACTUS WREN•DIDTION JULY – AUGUST, 2001 NEWSLETTER CONTENTS Notes and Announcements From the Editor - Deva Burns Programs Board News - And A Good Time Was Had By All Cliff Noted Photo Quiz Conservation – Birds & Forest Fire AZ Special Species – Brown-Crested Flycatcher Field Trips Volume XLIX, No.4 Glossy Ibis photographed Field Trip Report – California Quail in Arizona by Roy Jones with Olympus Conservation – Government Contacts C-3000 digital camera through Kowa 82mm Photo Quiz Answers scope. First State Record. Sightings – March April Photo Quiz Answers Continued Board News – Changes in the Wind at Audubon Birder’s Corner – Gunnison Gase Grouse LEK To navigate to other parts of the site, scroll to the bottom of the page or use this link PROGRAMS NOTES & ANNOUNCEMENTS Meetings are held the first invited to Riparian Institute speaking Southwest Wings sleeved shirts are available in Iris, Tuesday of each month, bring a platter about the Gilbert Riparian Birding Festival, Brick, Charcoal and Willow, large September-April, at the Phoenix of his or her Institute and The August 8-11, 2001. or XL for $15.00. Long-sleeved Zoo Auditorium. Meetings start at favorite h'ors Preserves at Neely Ranch This popular event is shirts are available in Charcoal, 7:30, and feature a speaker, book de oeuvres, and Water Ranch. held each year in Med, Large or XL, for $20.00. Add sales, refreshments, and a chance sufficiently Sierra Vista. Various $4.00 shipping and handling for the to socialize with fellow MAS large enough daylong and half-day first shirt, $1.50 for each additional members. Non-members to serve at field trips will be shirt. Please allow 3 weeks for welcome! least six October 2: Kenn conducted to such delivery. Make checks out to: people. We'll Kaufman topic: TBA places as the Maricopa Audubon Society, 1128 E provide the Chiricahua Mountains, Geneva Dr., Tempe, AZ 85282. eating Huachuca Mountains, For info, contact Laurie Nessel at Join us for a pre-meeting dinner at utensils, the Patagonia Area, (480) 968-5614 or th November 6. Bob Stewart Pete’s 19 Tee, 1405 N Mill plates, and on the butterflies of Ramsey Canyon and [email protected]. Look Avenue, Tempe (at the Rolling Hills the drinks Arizona. Sulphur Springs for a future posting of the shirts on Golf Course) starting at 6:00 p.m. (non- Valley. Over 100 our website: NOTE: For our first meeting of the alcoholic, of species of birds are year on September 4th, there will course). normally recorded www.maricopaaudubon.org. be no pre-meeting dinner at Bring a December 4: Roseann during the festival. Pete's. It is our annual potluck. friend. Hanson from the Sky Call Southwest Wings, Each attendee is Festivities will Island Alliance. Inc. at 800-946-4777 A Birding Guide to Reno and start at 6:30 or write PO Box 3432, Beyond is published by the p.m., when Sierra Vista, AZ Lahontan Audubon Society of we'll be able 85636-3432 for Speakers wanted: If you Reno, NV. It covers 20 significant to tell one information and have ideas for speakers, or birding destinations and 25 side another reservations. if you would like to make a trips within an 80-mile radius of where we had presentation yourself, Reno. All the proceeds from the an please contact Laurie sale of the guide benefit the opportunity to Nessel, Program Chair, at conservation and education go birding this The ABA Regional (480) 968-5614 or projects of Lahontan Audubon past summer, Conference will be [email protected]. Society. The price is $10.00 and is and what held in Santa Maria, available through ABA Sales or lifers we got. CA on September 10- you can purchase it directly from The regular 14, 2001. Midway Lahontan (total with postage is meeting will between Morro Bay $11.50). Contact Lucie Clark at get underway and Santa Barbara, [email protected] or 775/831- at 7:30 p.m. near the central California coast, Santa 2909. Maria offers easy access to habitats Program including coastal bays Woodpecker Damage: A Simple topics: and estuaries, rocky Solution to a Common Problem shoreline, chaparral September is a new 8 page booklet available Scott scrub, semi-desert, 4: from Texas Parks and Wildlife Anderson of and several types of which promises an inexpensive the Gilbert woodland. For and successful way of dealing with information call woodpecker damage to man-made 800/850-2473, ext., structures, and ways that man and FROM THE EDITOR 233. woodpecker can coexist. If you would like a free copy of this by Deva Burns booklet, send a 6x9 clasp Hassayampa envelope, addressed to yourself Preserve will follow a and including $.55 postage to How active a in their checks for $20. summer schedule tht Clifford E Shackelford, Nongame birder are Don't be embarrassed, we began May 15 and will Ornithologist, Texas Parks and you? Do you all know things happen. continue until Wildlife, 3000 IH 35 South, Suite bird every Feel free to contact me if September 15. They 100, Austin, TX 78704. Fold the weekend? Or you don't feel like calling will only be open larger envelope inside a legal do you simply Herb. As your editor I envelope and put "woodpecker COMMITTEES/ Friday, Saturda and enjoy reading receive various other Sunday from 8-5. damage" on the outside. SUPPORT about birding chapter newsletters. in Tucson's Vermilion publications? Flycatcher has a Contacting elected officials. Activists Alert No matter permanent column listing Audubon which end of addresses and phone Adventures: Give the Look in this issue for contact Shawn Bauer the spectrum numbers for local, state, gift of discovery and names and addresses. 602-828-3607 you are on, and federal government share your love of the [email protected] you are contacts. I really environment. The important to appreciate having this program is designated Our web site an information all together in for students in grades www.maricopaaudubon.org has a environmental one place and have copied 4-6. Introduce an web master, Michell Fulton. She is Arizona Audubon organization. their idea. If you find any entire classroom (up to keeping it up to date for us. If you Council Rep Herb Fibel's mistakes in our Maricopa 32 students) to the have access to the web, please article on the County information, please wonders of nature for Herb Fibel check out our site. We also owe a upcoming let me know. just $35 (plus shipping 480-966-9246 debt of gratitude to Cliff Drowley for changes in charges). You can [email protected] originally getting us up and running the select your favorite on the web. relationship school or let Audubon between I always enjoy reading do it for you. For about bird trips our Bird Alert National orders: call 800/813- members have taken. I Audubon and 5037. Do you have an interesting story to especially enjoyed Bud Steve Ganley the local tell about birding? Please forward Johnson's detailed 480-832-8745 chapters your submissions to the Editor— directions for both the should be a Deva Burns. Check the back page Gunnison Sage Grouse wake up call Maricopa Audubon T- for address/e-mail. Actually, and the California Quail, are available for for everyone. Shirts attaching an article to an e-mail is Book Store and I enjoyed his company sale at member I know my the absolute easiest way to submit on the latter trip. As I am meetings or by mail. view may be an article. If you have pictures or Richard & Karen putting this issue to bed I They feature a Barn a bit slanted, slides, you do need to send those Kaiser am getting packed for my Owl primary flight but I would to me directly. Remember, all 602-276-3312 next adventure. In the feather overshadowing hate to see articles may not be published the next issue, I'll fill you in on the common and Latin the first month after receipt. Wren*dition my trip to Baffin Island. I names of birds found am so excited about the in Maricopa County. Field Observations fold. It is a very good possibilitiespolar bear, Short Janet Witzeman vehicle for narwhal, and Ivory Gull. 602-840-6089 disseminating 2 information about birding and related Hospitality issues to Jeanine Baker interested Maricopa Audubon members. Do Web Page you have an idea for Michell Fulton fundraisers? 480-968-5141 If so, please [email protected] pass your ideas on to your Board. I would also plead for those 13 people who stood us up at the May meeting to send 1 Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 [Top of Page | Table of Contents ] Last updated: October 2, 2001 ©2001, Maricopa Audubon Society. All rights reserved. Mail comments to: [email protected] THE CACTUS WREN•DIDTION JULY – AUGUST, 2001 NEWSLETTER CONTENTS Notes and Announcements From the Editor - Deva Burns Programs Board News - And A Good Time Was Had By All Cliff Noted Photo Quiz Conservation – Birds & Forest Fire AZ Special Species – Brown-Crested Flycatcher Field Trips Volume XLIX, No.4 Field Trip Report – California Quail in Arizona Glossy Ibis photographed by Roy Jones with Olympus Conservation – Government Contacts C-3000 digital camera Photo Quiz Answers through Kowa 82mm scope. First State Record. Sightings – March April Photo Quiz Answers Continued Board News – Changes in the Wind at Audubon Birder’s Corner – Gunnison Gase Grouse LEK To navigate to other parts of the site, scroll to the bottom of the page or use this link AND A GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY ALL JULY – AUGUST, 2000 PHOTO QUIZ By Herb Fibel By Jim Burns On May Day The nominating Outgoing Secretary, Maricopa Audubon committee, Evelyn Karen Kaiser, outgoing members celebrated Lewis, Harvey Field Trip Chair, Walter Maricopa Audubon's Beatty and Roy Thurber, and outgoing This Issue’s Clue: Different families different make-up, same bad hair.
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