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Baby Bird Season Guest Speakers: Scottie Jackson & the Alabama Wildlife Center Team Sunday, April 24, 2016 - 2 P.M Volume LXIX Number 7 April 2016 FlickerPublished by FlashesFor conservation and greater knowledge The Birmingham Audubon Society of birds, their habitat, and natural world Aububon Teaches Nature Baby Bird Season Guest Speakers: Scottie Jackson & the Alabama Wildlife Center Team Sunday, April 24, 2016 - 2 P.M. Alabama Wildlife Center There are many sure-fire signs of spring: the days are longer, flowers are blooming, birds are singing and the nightly chorus of insects will soon fill the air. Accompany- Programs are held at the Alabama Wildlife Center at ing that birdsong is the chirp, chirp, chirp of baby birds. Oak Mountain State Park, and the adjacent Oak Moun- What to do when one finds one out of the nest? Is it tain Interpretive Center. Admission to the park is $5.00 injured or orphaned? Is it okay to touch it? Can you put per person, but the program itself is free. Come early to it back in the nest? These are all questions that will be enjoy refreshments at the Alabama Wildlife Center and answered by Scottie & the Alabama Wildlife Center team; the birds at the feeders. When it is time for the program come prepared to learn the answers! we will proceed to the auditorium. Next month’s program: Due to circumstances beyond our control, the May 22 April program will be our last seminar in the series before seminar, Exploring Wild Alabama, featuring Larry Davenport we break for the summer. Make plans now to join us on and Ken Wills, will be postponed until the fall. Thus, the our summer field trips! $1.4 Million Approved for the Alabama Coastal Bird Stewardship Program The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation has approved volunteers and staff,” said Suzanne Langley, Executive Director, $1.46 million through the Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund Birmingham Audubon Society. “These same shorelines attract for the Alabama Coastal Bird Stewardship Program. The Ala- residents and tourists to watch birds and visit surrounding bama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, in communities. While our staff and volunteers protect these partnership with Birmingham Audubon and Mobile Bay Audu- birds, they will also educate the public about the value of Ala- bon Society, will establish this stewardship, monitoring, and bama’s natural treasures.” outreach program focusing on priority shorebird and coastal The Alabama Coastal Bird Stewardship program comple- waterbird populations. ments the work of similar Audubon initiatives in the Gulf Birmingham Audubon, a staffed and certified chapter of including Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. The Alabama National Audubon Society, currently partners with Mobile Bay program will include monitoring priority species along routes Audubon and its volunteer members to survey priority spe- in Mobile and Baldwin Counties in varied coastal habitats with cies along Mobile and Baldwin County shorelines through the trained volunteers and staff, as well as outreach to local commu- Audubon Coastal Bird Survey. nities and stewardship of nesting colonies. Among the locations “Mobile and Baldwin County shorelines provide habitat of work to be completed through the Alabama Coastal Bird critical to several bird species of conservation concern that, Stewardship program is Dauphin Island, which was recognized with the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural in 2015 as a globally significant Important Bird Area by Birdlife Resources, we will now have expanded opportunity to moni- International and its U.S. partner, National Audubon Society. tor and steward to more productive populations with local Birmingham Audubon Mountain Workshop is Coming! Thursday, May 5 - Sunday, May 8, 2016 - See page 6 for additional information. April Half-day Field Trip Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park Saturday, April 2, 2016 - 7 A.M. Tannehill State Park and its more than 1500 acres of history Louisiana waterthrush - Photo by Greg Harber and nature sit astride three counties in a valley at the western terminus of the Appalachian Mountain Range. The combination of Turn left onto Eastern Valley Road and follow it for ap- hillsides rich in ore and swiftly flowing Roupes Creek made this proximately 7 miles. Turn left onto Tannehill Park, then right the perfect location for a successful iron making operation from onto Confederate Parkway. The address is: 1830 to 1865. Along side its natural wonder and excellent bird 12632 Confederate Parkway, McCalla Al 35111. habitat, the park also features a working gristmill, the remains of There is a fee for park entrance: $3.00 for adults, $2.00 the old furnaces and the Iron and Steel Museum. The park is a for seniors and $1.00 for children. There is a fee for the mu- destination on the Appalachian Highland Birding Trails. seum as well, if you choose to visit it. Birds that we are likely to see include various woodpeck- This is a half-day trip, but feel free to bring lunch, snacks er species, pine warblers, brown-headed nuthatches, herons, and drinks as there are picnic tables. The trails are along old kingfishers, hawk species and resident owls, such as great road beds, so hiking or walking will be easy. Please feel free to horned and barred owls. Spring visitors should be arriving, so stay in the park as long as you like. Binoculars will be available we hope to see Louisiana waterthrushs along the streams. to borrow for the day. Cameras are more than welcome. Visit the web site for more information: TRAVEL PLANS: Meet at the Hoover McDonalds across from the Galleria Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park at 1731 Montgomery Hwy, Hoover, Al 35244. Arrive early www.tannehill.org enough to car pool and be ready to leave at 7 a.m. Leave Trip Leader: McDonalds, take I-459 south to exit 1 for McCalla. Susan Barrow (H) 205 942 8667 (C) 205 253 8667 April All-day Field Trip Bull’s Gap - Talladega National Forest Saturday, April 23, 2016 - 7 A.M. Scenic Bull’s Gap, located in the southern reaches of Birmingham, AL 35242-2682). the Talladega National Forest, east of Sylacauga, hosts many We will depart from here at 7 colorful neotropical songbirds. Among them are summer and a.m., caravan via US Hwy 280, Prairie warbler - scarlet tanagers, black-throated green warblers, ovenbirds and to Sylacauga and reconvene Thinkstock by Getty Images worm-eating warblers. We may even find blue-headed vireos at the McDonald’s in downtown which breed in the higher elevations. Sylacauga (701 W Fort Williams St., Sylacauga, AL 35150-2441) We will visit red-cockaded woodpecker colonies that are at 8 a.m. Please note that if you wish to have breakfast first, located west of Bull’s Gap along Alabama Hwy 148. As time please arrive at the Sylacauga McDonald’s in advance of the permits, we will also visit other sites within the national forest group’s arrival and allow enough time to eat, as our stop here featuring habitats that favor species such as prairie warblers, will be brief. yellow-breasted chats and northern bobwhite. This will be an all-day trip, so bring a picnic lunch, drinks Please note that the terrain can be uneven on the forest and snacks. Remember, weather this time of year can be service road at Bull’s Gap (southern terminus of the Skyway changeable, so dress appropriately. Have a full tank of gas. Motorway), and we will start our walk at 1400 feet elevation Binoculars and spotting scopes are welcome, but there will be and ascend to 1800 feet – in the span of about a half-mile. binoculars to borrow during the trip. Those who are in a vehicle with good clearance and capable of handling rutted roads may wish to park in a small gravel Trip leader: Greg Harber: 205-251-2133, home/evenings, or 205-807-8055, parking area located part way up the ascent. day of field trip only. Meeting Place and Travel Plans: Meet at the Publix park- GPS: 33.1988772 -86.069206 ing lot at Lee Branch near Greystone (410 Doug Baker Blvd, All Birmingham Audubon field trips are free and open to the public. 2 April Membership Program Membership Appreciation Program and Pot Luck Supper Birmingham Botanical Gardens - East Room Thursday, April 28, 2016 - 6:30 P.M. Please join us for the April Membership Appreciation programs and activities for potential inclusion in our un- Program on April 28, which is the fourth Thursday of the month. narrated slide show to be shown during this event. Please With this program we want to honor you as we look back at submit your electronic images for consideration to Hans Paul the fun we have had and our many accomplishments. Bring your ([email protected]). favorite dish to share. Birmingham Audubon will provide drinks This will be an enjoyable fun filled evening with a little and sandwiches. April is also the occasion where we elect our laughter, outstanding images, many pleasant memories and officers, so we will mix a bit of work with lots of fun. some good food. We are accepting digital images of Birmingham Audubon Bluebird Nest Boxes Added: East Lake Park, Avondale Park and Sherman Heights Through Birmingham Audubon’s promotion of urban wildlife and installed them in the Sherman Heights neighborhood in habitat, we have partnered with several Birmingham area groups partnership with the local neighborhood association. to build and install eastern bluebird boxes in public greenspaces. Fenn Spencer and students from the East Lake United Method- ist Church after-school program recently built five nest boxes and installed them at East Lake Park. The Carpenter’s Hands, a non-profit associated with Avondale Samaritan Place, also built five nest boxes that were placed in Avondale Park. Finally, the Birmingham Audubon Junior Board constructed ten nest boxes Exclusive field trips, workshops, and more.
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