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Oct. 11, 2018, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. - Poulsbo Library Live Raptors - All Ages family program Docents from West Sound Wildlife Shelter will once again bring us a couple of their charming wildlife ambassadors for an informative family-friendly program: this time a Red-tailed Hawk and a Western Screech Owl. These “live raptor” programs appeal to all ages, and especially children. So bring the whole family! When injured or orphaned wildlife are brought to the shelter, they are treated, rehabilitated and released back into the wild whenever possible. But sometimes they are too impaired to survive in the wild and become special ambassadors for the shelter’s fascinating educational outreach programs. The programs reach out to people of all ages to encourage responsible actions toward wildlife and their habitat, and develop the wildlife stewards of tomorrow. The purpose of these programs is to create a direct connection with wildlife that will help educate the public about protecting wild animals and their habitats, and how to coexist peacefully with the Red-tailed Hawk photo local wildlife. Our adult-oriented programs also by Don Willott. provide information and advice about humanely resolving conflicts with nuisance wildlife. Western Screech Owl To learn more about these programs, photo by Gene Bullock contact West Sound Wildlife Shelter at [email protected].

Thank you One Call For All We are especially grateful to our 300+ members and friends on Bainbridge Island who each year designate Kitsap Audubon for a generous portion of their ONE CALL FOR ALL donation. Kitsap Audubon Society President’s Letter - Diane Bachen President: Diane Bachen, 360-649- With the cooler 6903, [email protected] Vice President: Gene Bullock, 360-394- temperatures and rain (fingers 5635; [email protected] crossed), it certainly feels like Treasurer: Sandy Bullock; 360-394-5635 summer has passed. Now is a [email protected] Secretary: Connie Bickerton, 206-200- great time to refurbish gardens 8425, [email protected] with shrubs and trees, especially Immed. Past Pres: Sandy Bullock; 360- with some of our native plants 394-5635; [email protected] that support our feathered At-Large Board of Directors: friends. Bainbridge Island Land Ray Coleburg, 360-535-4105 Trust is having a native plant Sharron Ham, 360-779-5458, sale on Saturday, October 6 [email protected] Janine Schutt; 360-830-4446; jeschutt@ from 9 am to 12 pm. For more hotmail.com information, look for “Events” Alan Westphal, 206-780-7844, on www.bi-landtrust.org. Many [email protected] Judy Willott; 206-842-6939 of our local nurseries also carry a [email protected] variety of native plants. Did you Lynn Willmott, 360-613-0044, know that several studies showed [email protected] that listening to birds singing Standing Committee Chairs: and calling can help improve a Field Trips: Alan Westphal, 206-780-7844, [email protected] person’s mood and attention? conservation in several areas Another great reason to plant Conservation Chair: Don Willott of Kitsap County. The board 206-842-6939, [email protected] bird friendly shrubs and trees! welcomes proposals from our Education Chair: Gene Bullock, To start another Audubon general membership to be 360-394-5635; [email protected] year off, we have purchased a considered for possible projects Greeters: Milly Bellemere & Bob brand new, up-to-date sound to be financed from this fund. Schumacher. 360-830-4231, rbellemere@ system. This will greatly We just received an update wavecable.com facilitate the audio portions of from the Marbled Murrelet Membership Administrator: Sara Kane our programs and ensure that 297-2716, [email protected] Survival Coalition that the revised everyone will be able to hear. Programs: Vic Ulsh Draft Environmental Impact 360-479-6900, [email protected] Thank you to Gene and Sandy Statement on the Marbled Publicity: Gene Bullock, 360-394-5635; Bullock for securing this system Murrelet Long-Term Conservation [email protected] for KAS. Strategy has been completed. Refreshment Chair: Lynn Willmott, 360- Our annual financial report Please see more information 613-0044, [email protected] was published in our last about this important document Purple Martins: Sandy Pavey, newsletter and that included on page 9 of this newsletter. 360-930-0807, [email protected] information about the Ann New board members Raffle Coordinator: Dawn Hansen; Sleight Memorial Fund. At our are needed! Our secretary Wildlife Sightings: Janine Schutt September board meeting we position is still vacant. Although 360-830-4446; [email protected] approved the donation of $5,000 Connie Bickerton has graciously Scholarship Chair: Sandy Bullock to the Bainbridge Land Trust continued to take notes, she is 360-394-5635, [email protected] Stand For the Land Campaign, also busy as our social media Social Media Chair/Facebook Editor: which will go to preserve key Connie Bickerton chair. Sandy Bullock, our treasurer, [email protected] natural habitat on Bainbridge will be stepping down at the end Island. Webmaster: Mike Szerlog, of this year, so we will need to fill 360-881-0470, [email protected], The Ann Sleight Memorial that position. Sandy has said that www.kitsapaudubon.org Fund is available for projects she will mentor the new board Kingfisher Editor: that fit our mission, and has been member who offers to take this Gene Bullock, 360-394-5635 used for educational scholarships on. Please talk to any board [email protected] and for land acquisition and member for more information 1968 NE Lind Ct., Poulsbo WA 98370

Kitsap Audubon Society meets the 2nd Thursday of each month, September through May, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., on the lower level of the Poulsbo Library, 700 NE Lincoln Rd. Programs free, open to the public. Audubon Council of Washington (ACOW) October 13, 2018; Brightwater Center, Woodinville WA The Audubon Council of Washington (ACOW) is an annual state-wide conference that brings together the Audubon Washington staff and members from Audubon Chapters across Washington State for a day of information sharing, knowledge gathering, and fellowship. This year’s ACOW will be held Saturday, October 13, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the Brightwater Center, 22505 State Route 9 SE, Woodinville WA 98072. It will be hosted by Eastside Audubon and King County chapters. Details are available online at http://wa.audubon.org/events/audubon-council-washington-1 New Kitsap Audubon Patches Our new Kitsap Audubon patches will be available for sale at our monthly meetings. The patches are $5.00 each if you purchase them at the meeting. Add $1.00 for postage and handling if you order via our website or by mail. These three- inch-diameter patches are designed to be ironed on or sewn on hats, sweatshirts, shirts, jackets, camera bags, backpacks, etc. You can order patches online at http://www.kitsapaudubon.org/store/ Save these dates for Christmas Bird Count Kitsap County Christmas Bird Count - Saturday, December. 15, 2018 Port Gamble/Hansville/NK CBC - Saturday, December 22, 2018 Pre-CBC Orientaton & Warm-up - Saturday, December 8, 2018, at Point No Point County Park in Hansville (9 a.m.). Kitsap Audubon pledges $5,000 to Bainbridge Land Trust “Stand for the Land” Campaign Donation will be matched. Wildlife Watching Soars in Popularity Forty-five million people went pastime and birding topped the watchers contributed nearly $76 birding in 2016! list of animals to watch! Birders billion to the economy, mostly A study published last winter spent a lot of time on their hobby through equipment expenses. by the US Fish and Wildlife (almost 100 days), mostly around Seventeen million birders traveled Service summarized the results their homes. Collectively, wildlife away from home to watch birds. of a 2016 survey The number of wildlife- on outdoor watchers increased recreation. Their 20% between 2016 and results show that 2011, the year of the last over 101 million survey. people - 40% of You can read the survey the US population at - participated in https://wsfrprograms. wildlife-related fws.gov/subpages/ activities in 2016, nationalsurvey/nat_ including hunting, survey2016.pdf fishing, and (of course) bird- Photo by Jay Wiggs watching. Wildlife- watching was the most popular Field Trips & Festivals - Al & Andrew Westphal Birdfest and Bluegrass (Ridgefield, WA): October Field Trip 5 – 7. Check the website for details and schedule Report of events: https:// Point No Point/Hansville, ridgefieldfriends.org/ September 15. Sixteen of us birdfest-bluegrass/ gathered for a terrific morning Other Birding Festivals: A at Point No Point. With the more complete summary of tide rising and a nice rip events statewide may be shaping up around the point, found at the Washington conditions were just right parking lot by the visitor center at State Audubon site: http:// to bring seabirds close enough 8:30 a.m. wa.audubon.org/bird-festivals-0 to shore for easy watching and Owl Prowl with Jamie Acker: identification. The highlight Billy Frank - Nisqually National Sunday, October 28th, 5:00 this time of year is the show Wildlife Refuge: Saturday, a.m. Jamie’s early morning Owl put on by the Parasitic Jaegers October 20. Al & Andrew Prowls on Bainbridge Island are a harassing smaller birds and taking Westphal, leaders: westphalac@ unique experience. He knows all their catch, and they did not aol.com, 206-780-7844 (e-mail of the owl spots and will call them disappoint. At least four jaegers preferred). One of the best right into your view. Because went after the many hundreds of locations in our area to observe of his long-term studies of the Bonaparte’s and other gulls right an array of migrating and over- Bainbridge owl population, he is before our eyes. Other highlights wintering waterfowl along with a on a first-name basis with many were “first-of-fall” Fox Sparrow many other birds. We will walk of the resident owls. Call him and Golden-crowned Sparrow the forest and barn trails and after 4:00 p.m. at 206-499-7121 (singing no less!), and a small as far out on the boardwalk as or e-mail [email protected] for flock of Red-necked Phalaropes we care to go. There is a good a reservation, instructions, and off Norwegian Point Park. The option for lunch after birding at meeting location. many enthusiastic participants Norma’s just outside the refuge. who did so much of the spotting Watch weather forecasts and and identification made this an dress accordingly! Meet at the especially nice event!

This mixed flock of Red-necked Phalaropes and Bonaparte’s Gulls was photographed by John Bouck at Norwegian Point during the September Kitsap Audubon field trip to Point No Point in Hansville. Wildlife Sightings - Janine Schutt On Aug. 27, Adele 4 Vaux’s swifts Freeland saw four sandhill Aug. 31 at Driftwood Key: 1 cranes flying over Harrison semipalmated sandpiper Hospital in East Bremerton. On Aug. 31 at Green Mountain: 2 Sept. 7, Sandy Pavey was Canada jays (formerly known as surprised by a Virginia rail in gray jays) a small stream by a trail at Sept. 2 at Lamms Ln (NE of Fish Park in Poulsbo. There Poulsbo): 1 northern pygmy were multiple sightings of owl, 1 Cassin’s vireo three black oystercatchers at Sept. 6 at Long Lake (Port Driftwood Key and one juvenile Orchard): 1 green heron Franklin’s gull at Point No Point Sept. 7 at Driftwood Key: 3 (both near Hansville) at the end evening grosbeaks of Aug./early Sept. Send me Sept. 8 at Port Gamble Bay: 2 your interesting sightings at black swifts [email protected]. Please Sept. 9 at Point No Point: 14 put “Wildlife Sightings” in the parasitic jaegers subject line. Sept. 10 at Restoration Point (Bainbridge Island): 32 Notable Kitsap Bird Sightings Harlequin ducks from www.eBird.org: Sept. 10 at Point No Point: 1 Aug. 15 at Clear Creek Trail brown pelican (Silverdale): 1 solitary sandpiper Sept. 13 at Foulweather Bluff: Aug. 17 at Foulweather Bluff 2 Baird’s sandpipers, 2 pectoral (Hansville): 1 long-billed sandpipers. dowitcher, 1 lesser yellowlegs Aug. 25 at Blakely Rocks Photos of Anna’s (Bainbridge Island): 90 black Hummingbird by Jay turnstones, 1 red knot Wiggs. Aug. 28 at Hansville Greenway:

Bird of the Month: California Scrub Jay- Janine Schutt The California scrub-jay, crack open an acorn. formerly known as “western • Acorns that are not scrub-jay”, is becoming retrieved will grow new oak more common around trees. Kitsap County, particularly • Known to steal acorns in Bremerton and Hansville. buried by other jays Here are some fascinating or cached by acorn facts about the California woodpeckers. scrub-jay: • Sometimes eats • West Coast resident small rodents, reptiles, expanding its range amphibians, bird eggs, and northward in Washington. even nestlings of other bird • Inhabits suburban gardens species. and open hardwood • Eats ticks and other habitats. parasites off the backs of • Digs holes in the ground mule deer, who seem to to store acorns for winter appreciate the partnership. meals. Photo by Janine Schutt • Will use a hard surface to Our Purple Martin Caring Crews A worldwide decline in insects noting the number of active nests with PVC gourds with removable is causing a worldwide decline and the likely number of young cleanout covers. of the birds that depend on fledged. Unhatched eggs usually The Seabeck Marina crew is them for food, such as swallows. mean a nesting failure, and the led by Janine Schutt, and the North American swallows are presence of fecal matter confirms Eagle Harbor crew by Judy also suffering from the loss of that the nest site successfully Willott. natural nest cavities and growing produced young fledglings. The Purple Martins have been competition for these cavities gourds will be hung back up in observed at the Port Orchard from such introduced species as April, just before the birds return. Marina, but there are no gourds the House Sparrow and European Sandy Pavey, Purple Martin hanging there as yet. This is a Starling. Chair, reports that all 20 of the great volunteer opportunity. Purple Martins might have Brownsville Marina gourds had disappeared from North active nests; but one nest had The Brownsville Marina America altogether without the three unhatched eggs, and was Purple Martin caring clean- intervention of bird lovers who probably a failed nest. Based on out crew in the photo below maintain colonies of artificial the contents of each nest, and left includes (from left): Sandy nesting gourds for them. observations over the summer, Pavey, Lisa Pederson and Native Americans were the Sandy counted at least 15 young. Barbara Hager. John Hager, first to put out hollow gourds to Although all of the gourds had also assisted with the fall attract martins. The birds repaid nests, some probably did not clean-out. Photo by Betsy them by helping control wasps produce young, based on the Carmona. and biting insect populations in absence fecal matter. Nests the village. reviously observed with young Bill and Diane Fitzpatrick Kitsap Audubon volunteers had quite a bit of fecal matter. (photo below) have taken maintain thriving Purple Martin Diane Fitzpatrick reports on the responsibility of colonies at the Brownsville and that all 22 of the gourds in maintaining the Purple Martin Seabeck marinas, Poulsbo’s the Oyster Plant Park colony colony at Poulsbo’s Oyster Oyster Plant Park and Bainbridge in Poulsbo appeared to have Plant Park. This colony was Island’s Eagle Harbor. After the been active, and contained maintained for many years by birds leave in the fall, volunteers both nesting materials and fecal take down the nest gourds and matter. However, three nests Doug Fogle, who also has his clean and store them for the had unhatched eggs. The natural own colony in Port Gamble. winter. They also take inventory gourds belong to Doug Fogle in Photo by Gene Bullock. of the season’s nesting activity, Port Gamble, and will be replaced Award-winning photo by Faith Halko Kitsap Audubon teen birder Faith Halko was awarded First Place in the Under-18 category of the Seadoc Society “Salish Sea in Focus” photo contest. Her photo shows a Caspian Tern carrying a fish. Faith became an avid birder and bird photographer after being inspired by a 5th grade science project at Sakai Intermediate School on Bainbridge. Faith donated half her prize money to the Seadoc Society. KAS Donates AA Kits to 64 Classrooms Kitsap Audubon has been donating Audubon Adventures curriculum kits to 3rd and 4th grade classrooms for more than ten years. We recently ordered kits for 64 class- rooms at a cost of about $46 each and had them sent directly to the teach- ers who requested them. The latest kit contains colorful handouts on three important wildlife and environmental topics (see photo) – with enough copies of each for 32 students. Audubon Adventures is an environmental education curriculum product created by the National Audubon Society for grades 3 - 5. Developed by professional environmental educators, Audubon Adventures presents standards-based science content about birds, wildlife, and their habitats. Audubon Adventures introduces young people and their teachers to the fundamental principles by which the natural world functions. Our print publications and website offer an exciting, science-based exploration of those principles at work anchored in nonfiction reading and outdoor and classroom activities that help kids to care for our planet by helping birds and other wildlife. Vote YES on I-1631 for a cleaner future Right now the largest new good-paying jobs, and ensure generation. polluters can pollute for free while a cleaner future for the next Initiative 1631 is supported by the rest of us pay the costs. generation. Audubon Washington and more I-1631 would put a fee on the If we don’t act now, the than 250 other organizations, state’s largest polluters, like the threat of pollution will only get representing scientists, oil industry and utilities that have worse and cause more harm to environmental and clean-energy not switched over to clean-energy, our communities and our kids’ advocates, working families, and invest in protecting our air health. I-1631 is a practical first communities of color, health and water and building new clean- step to ensure clean air and clean professionals, businesses, faith energy infrastructure across the water for everyone in Washington leaders, and tribal nations. state. We know with this initiative, and gives us the chance to pass we can protect our health, create on a healthier state to the next The Marbled Murrelets Need You This Fall Maria M. Ruth, Black Hills Audubon Society Washington State will ground information and issue be seeking public input on talking points—scientific, legal, important decisions on the fate and economic—for you to of this endangered seabird. The consider including in your public Department of Natural Resources comments. We’ll also provide (DNR) has released its Revised you with press releases, action Draft Environmental Impact alerts, short articles, images, Statement (RDEIS) for the Long and graphics you can use in Term Conservation Strategy for your newsletters, social media, the Marbled Murrelet (see below). of the Environmental Impact and other outreach to your This strategy will be implemented Statement in early 2017. Your membership. on 1.4 million acres of state forest comments sent a strong message Your voice. Your public land. for the next 50 years. to DNR that it was not doing Your trees. Your wildlife. This is a critical time for the enough to protect the murrelets Follow Murrelet Survival Project endangered seabird whose on our state lands. For that we on Facebook at https://www. population in Washington has thank you! facebook.com/MurreletSurvival/ declined 44% since 2001. DNR Now we need your help for news and updates. manages 213,000 acres of land again. The period for public The Marbled Murrelet Coalition in western Washington where comment ends November 6. includes Conservation Northwest, mature and old-growth coastal Our goal is to guide DNR to Defenders of Wild-life, Olympic forests provide the murrelet’s select an alternative that makes Forest Coalition, Seattle preferred nesting trees. These a significant contribution to the Audubon Society, Washington forests are public lands and you recovery of the endangered Environmental Council, and have a voice in how they are murrelet. Washington Forest Law Center. managed. The Marbled Murrelet Many of you submitted Coalition will be analyzing the Photo by Janine Schutt comments on the previous draft RDEIS, and will provide back- SEPA File No. 12-042001: Revised Draft Environmental Impact Statement On The Long-Term Conservation Strategy For The Marbled Murrelet This proposal is to amend the Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) 1997 State Trust Lands Habitat Conservation Plan (State Trust Lands HCP) to include a long-term conservation strategy for the marbled murrelet. This is a joint revised draft environmental impact statement (RDEIS) between U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and DNR to satisfy both the National Environmental Policy Act and the State Environmental Policy Act. This proposal was not included at the time of adoption of the State Trust Lands HCP because the plan provided only an interim conservation strategy for the marbled murrelet. The interim strategy was to remain in place until more scientific information could be collected on habitat on DNR-managed lands and the marbled murrelet’s biological needs to make the development of a long-term conservation strategy possible. At this stage in planning, the proposal for a long-term conservation strategy is described as a set of seven alternatives, including a no action alternative. The alternatives represent a range of approaches to long-term marbled murrelet habitat conservation on DNR-managed lands within 55 miles of marine waters. The development of these alternatives was guided by a need, purpose and objectives approved by the Board of Natural Resources and USFWS. The no action alternative reflects what would occur if DNR did not adopt a marbled murrelet long-term conservation strategy. The location for this proposal is in the six westside planning units (land in range of the marbled murrelet in Clallam, Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, Island, Jefferson, King, Kitsap, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, Pierce, San Juan, Skagit, Snohomish, Thurston, Wahkiakum, and Whatcom counties) of DNR’s State Trust Lands HCP. To submit comments, visit DNR’s website at: http://www.dnr.wa.gov/long-term-conservation-strategy-marbled-murrelet Comments on this RDEIS should be submitted by 5:00 p.m. on November 6, 2018. A link to the public commenting portal can be found on the webpage above, or send comments to PO Box 47015, Olympia, Washington 98504-7015. Please include the file number listed above on all comments. Indoor cats live twice as long - Gene Bullock People who care about cats owners who want their pets to be able recognize that it’s not ideal to allow to enjoy being outside in complete cats to roam. safety. Catios can range from screened Outdoor cats live less than half as window boxes to fenced enclosures long as indoor cats on average. Outdoor to fashionable screened-in rooms. A cats live short lives characterized by variety of models are commercially hardship, disease, and injury. Cats available, but many homeowners chose suffer when they are hit by cars, injured to build their own. You can find lots of or killed by predators or other cats, or help on the Internet, including detailed contract diseases. Outdoor cats also plans: transmit diseases such as toxoplasmosis countryliving.com/life/kids- to humans and to wildlife including sea pets/g3263/catios/; otters and Hawaiian monk seals. countryliving.com/life/kids- Free-ranging cats also take a pets/a35760/catios-trend/ devastating toll on birds and other Seattlerefined.com/lifestyle/ wildlife. These are non-native predators catios-the-purrfect-place-for-cats that, even using conservative estimates, kill 1.3–4 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 Photos by Jane Fiske (cat) and billion mammals each year in the Jay Wiggs (coyote). U.S. alone (Loss et al. 2013, Nature Communications). For small dogs and cats, outdoor predators include foxes, coyotes and Bald Eagles. Even raccoons can be dangerous to pets who threaten their young. Obviously, both cats and birds are far safer when cats are kept indoors.

Catios the Cat’s Meow Catios (cat enclosures or patios) are growing in popularity among Monsanto’s Roundup Weed Killer - Gene Bullock Aerial spraying of Roundup classified glyphosate as “probably Audubon publication). in Hansville by Pope Resources carcinogenic in humans,” noting The IARC classification led to has prompted strong community the “limited evidence” of a link the filing of hundreds of Roundup opposition and concern about between glyphosate and non-Hodgkin lawsuits in US. state and federal the possible harm to surrounding lymphoma. Based on the IARC courts. In August 2018, a California residents. According to research classification, several counties now jury awarded a former school funded by Monsanto, the company ban its use. groundskeeper $289 million in that makes Roundup, the main IARC researchers cited animal compensatory and punitive damages. ingredient, glyphosate, does not studies – specifically, studies of The use of Roundup is widespread harm birds, wildlife or humans. Both mice and rats – that demonstrated a among farmers, groundskeepers, the U.S. Environmental Protection possible link between glyphosate and gardeners, tree farms, and highway Agency (EPA) and the European cancerous tumors; and laboratory and parks maintenance operations. Food Safety Authority (EFSA) found studies that showed the weed killer While it does not appear to directly that glyphosate was probably not can damage DNA in human cells. harm birds and wildlife, its pervasive carcinogenic. In one metropolitan study of the use has been devastating to wild Nonetheless, in 2015, the effects of herbicides and pesticides on plants that are essential to the survival International Agency for Research children, 99% of the children tested of Monarch butterflies and other on Cancer (IARC), an arm of had traces of these garden chemicals beneficial insects, as well as to the the World Health Organization, in their tissues (source: National birds that depend on them for food. NONPROFIT ORG US POSTAGE PAID Kitsap Audubon Society SILVERDALE WA PERMIT NO. 111 P.O. Box 961, Poulsbo, WA 98370 Address Service Requested

The Kingfisher is the newsletter of the Kitsap Audubon Society, P.O. Box 961, Poulsbo, WA 98370. It is published ten times a year, September to June. Submissions from readers are welcome. We reserve the right to edit for space, grammar or legal reasons. Email text or photographs to [email protected] or mail to Gene Bullock, 1968 NE Lind Ct., Poulsbo WA 98370. Our deadline is the 15th of the preceding month.

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