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January 2016 JANUARY 2016 • 1 OAS is Happy 50th Birthday to Orange Audubon Society OAS is January 1966–January 2016 Orange Audubon Society The Voice of Conservation in Central Florida Vol. 51 Issue 5 • January 2016 Monthly Field Trip: Get Out Your Cameras! This Month’s Program: January 23, 2016 28th Annual Photo Contest January 21, 2016 Merritt Island National Florida Native Nature is the theme of The Big Year with Greg Wildlife Refuge Field Trip Orange Audubon Society’s 28th Annual Miller Kit and Sidney Chertok Florida Native Orange Audubon Society will visit Nature Photography Contest. Orange Audubon Society’s (OAS) Merritt Island National Wildlife January 21st speaker, Greg Miller, is Eligible photos may not include Refuge, a 140,000 acre refuge near one of the three birders depicted in humans, human artifacts or introduced Titusville, known for its wintering the film The Big Year. Greg’s character plant or animal species. waterfowl. The field trip will be from was played by Jack Black. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. starting in The deadline is now April 21, 2016 the parking lot of Parrish Park on (postmarked by date). Participants SR402 in Titusville. This is primarily will be notified of any ineligible entries a driving field trip along Black Point and given the option with instructions Wildlife Drive, but we will walk about for replacing such images at no extra 1 mile. Bring lunch, drink and birding charge. Winners will be announced gear (spotting scopes are helpful) and prizes awarded at OAS’ June 16th and $5/carload refuge entrance fee. program. Dress with wind across the marsh in There are three competition categories: mind. No registration is required. If Youth—for photographers age 17 years Actor Jack Black and Greg Miller you have questions about the trip, or younger by May 19; Novice—for new Photo Courtesy Greg Miller contact us at [email protected]. and less experienced photo hobbyists; Greg, who is Ohio-based when he is Mary Keim and Randy Snyder, and Advanced Amateur/Professional— not leading birding tours, will be in Field Trip Committee for experienced photographers who Florida for the Space Coast Birding have practiced and honed their skills Festival. An entertaining speaker who over time. has inspired many young people to Also new: There are bonus prizes for take up birding, he will present to OAS 1st through 3rd place winners pho- thanks to sponsorship by Wild Birds tographed at Orange County Green Unlimited in Winter Springs. PLACE properties. Green PLACE Greg embarked upon his Big Year in entries may also be included in OC’s 1998, while holding a job at a nuclear 2017 nature calendar. To see Green power plant. In 2004 Denver-based PLACE properties, click here. journalist and birder Mark Obmascik An optional online photo entry system wrote his nonfiction bestseller The Big is currently under development. Year about the competition among So get outside with your camera and Greg and two other birders who also start shooting to capture Florida’s chose to do a Big Year in 1998. Greg amazing native nature! Contact me was the main birding advisor for the at (407) 644-0796 or mwilliams@cfl. 2011 film. If you haven’t seen it, there’s rr.com if you have questions. still time. It is available at libraries and streaming sites. Learn more about Teresa Williams, Photo Contest Chair Greg from his blog. Put January 21st on your calendar Roseate Spoonbill. Photo: Mary Keim to hear the reminiscences of one of our country’s top birders. Time and Orange Audubon Society programs are free and no reservations are necessary. location in box to left. Programs are the 3rd Thursday of each month (September–June) Brook Rohman, Programs Co-chair and all but June start at 7:00 p.m. in the Camellia Room at Happy New Year from Orange Harry P. Leu Gardens Audubon Society! 1920 North Forest Ave., Orlando, FL 32803 Hope you are ready for a brand new year of nature conservation, For map and directions, visit: education, and enjoyment! www.leugardens.org/plan/directions/ JANUARY 2016 • 2 OAS is Climate: Energy Efficiency purposes. The most valid reduction of energy use comparisons are made Climate change and its using the same months of preceding impact on bird and other and current years following energy wildlife populations are efficiency actions, and records from tremendous problems Winter Park Utilities will show billed throughout the U.S., but electricity following participation. even worse in low-lying, storm-prone Florida. Energy efficiency is the most rapidly implementable and cost-effective strategy to reduce the greenhouse The purpose and dedication of gases that contribute to climate Orange Audubon Society (OAS) is change. Data from the City of Winter to promote public understand ing of, Park’s Electric Utility indicates that and an interest in, wildlife and the its low-income West Winter Park environ ment that supports it. neighborhood has the highest energy OAS’ education programs foster use of any part of per square foot the recognition of the tangible and the city. Low-income residents do intangi ble values in the remaining not have the funds to make energy natural areas of Flor ida and the efficiency upgrades, and their older world, and our responsibility for the homes take more energy to heat or conservation of the Earth’s natural cool due to air leaking through small ecosystems and the services that they cracks in a building’s roof, walls, doors provide for the health of the planet. and windows. Orange Audubon Society Orange Audubon Society (OAS) P.O. Box 941142 has completed a year-long effort Maitland, FL 32794-1142 to demonstrate the importance of www.orangeaudubonfl.org energy efficiency as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Funded President and OASis Editor: by a $64,000 Toyota TogetherGreen Deborah Green by Audubon grant, OAS has worked [email protected] with several local contractors through (407) 637-2525 the City of Winter Park Sustainability Above: One of the eight Energy Efficiency The OASis (Orange Audubon Society Department to provide energy effi- Workshops that were part of this grant. Information Source) Newsletter is ciency retrofits to low-income resi- Below: Flowers Temple Annex receiving duct test prior to retrofit. Photos: Deborah Green published monthly from dents. September through June. The Of the 63 residents who attended The City of Winter Park is the only newsletter is posted on the OAS energy efficiency workshops, 59 had Florida semi-finalist in the George- website, and a link is e-mailed to all OAS members. energy evaluations, and 40 applied town Energy Prize, and the City’s Sus- for and were given free weatheriza- tainability staff were essential partners tion, insulation, duct repair, ventilation Address Change or E-Delivery: in this grant. OAS so appreciates the Mike Daley repairs, and/or window film. Addition- Toyota TogetherGreen by Audubon ally 5 churches, a church annex, and [email protected] grant that allowed us to do this worth- (407) 417-7818 nursery, all in West Winter Park, have while project! Savings data to come. been retrofitted with the aforemen- tioned enhancements, plus lighting Solar Choice Petition JOIN OAS’ MEETUP GROUP upgrades. Orange Audubon Society supports LIKE OAS ON FACEBOOK This Winter Park program was mod- the Solar Choice ballot initiative. We eled after the Orange County Home- hope you will sign the petition, ask A COPY OF THE OFFICIAL REGISTRA- owners Energy Efficiency Program others to sign, and avoid the Smart TION AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION (OCHEEP) which provided retro- Solar petition also competing for your MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE DIVI- SION OF CONSUMER SERVICES BY fits to approximately 2500 homes, signature. Please see the December funded by a federal Recovery grant. CALLING TOLL-FREE, 1-800-435-7352, OASis for a long explanation of how WITHIN THE STATE. FROM OUTSIDE OF OAS’ program seeks to publicize the this amendment will help the progress FLORIDA CALL 1-850-410-3800. VISIT energy savings possible through these of solar in Florida and how the com- www.800helpfla.com FOR HELP. REGIS- TRATION DOES NOT IMPLY ENDORSE- energy efficiency retrofits—something peting ballot initiative is designed to OCHEEP did not do. City of Winter MENT, APPROVAL OR RECOMMENDA- keep things status quo. Thanks! TION BY THE STATE. Park gets its energy from Duke Energy Deborah Green, Climate Chair REGISTRATION NO. CH2330 but has its own utility for billing JANUARY 2016 • 3 OAS is Legislative Watch The 2016 legislative session begins January 12, 2016 and lasts for 60 days until March 11, 2016. Contacting our legislators to let them know our opin- ions has had mixed results in the past year, but now is not the time to give up on advocacy. This session could be one of Florida’s worst ever in undoing environmental protections if we are not active. Track specific bills men- tioned below by using this link for the House and this link for the Senate. Fracking A Texas oil company, Burnett Oil, has submitted an application to the National Park Service (NPS) to explore for oil and natural gas in the Big Cypress Sunrise. Honorable Mention, 2013 Chertok Photo Contest. Photo: Kevin Barry Big Cypress National Preserve next to the Everglades. Comments need to be submitted to NPS before January 4 Our Parks in Peril Please Join the Orange via this NPS link. Please comment! Senate Bill 570, now moving through Audubon Society Central There are 2 bills in the Florida legis- legislative committees, will end park Florida Conservation Network fees altogether! Then the parks will lature moving through committees Orange Audubon Society’s (OAS) Con- clearly be unsustainable and can be to allow fracking in Florida: Senate servation Committee follows Central privatized.
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