VOL. 69 Issue # 4 The Osprey’s June-July-August 2019 Platform North Shore Audubon Society Serving Northern Nassau County Established1952 Evening Programs Saturday, August 3 Manhasset Public Library 10am – 4pm 30 Onderdonk Ave. at Northern Blvd. 7pm GARVIES POINT MUSEUM DAY Open to the public and free of charge Hands-on nature programs & craft, guided tours of our Handicap accessible beautiful native butterfl y & bird-friendly gardens, begin- ner’s bird watching, Insect study, Garvies Family History http://manhassetlibrary.org Tour, fi lms & more! Fun for all ages, *$5.00 per person 5 Membership meetings are the yrs. & older, includes all activities & museum admission. 4th Tuesday of the month, unless noted Free for current members. BE A GOOD EGG NEEDS YOU! Tuesday, June 25 – Friday, August 30 Are you interested in volunteering on any of these GARVIES SUMMER DAY CAMPS days? Please email [email protected] or call Hands-on learning, activities & crafts for children (516) 922-3200 to sign up for the specifi c dates/loca- 5-7 & 8-11 years old tions that work for you. It’s a fun opportunity to be on Tuesday – Friday 9:30am-12:30pm & 1-4pm OR the beach, educate beach goers about nesting birds, 9:30am-4:00pm and make a real diff erence ALL THEMES HAVE BEEN UPDATED! NATURE I: Pond Investigation, Trees & Leaves, Sat 6/15 Stehli Town Beach, Bayville Insects & Spiders, Nature’s Recycling (5-7, 8-11) Sat 6/22 Lido Beach Town Park, Lido Beach NATURE II: Beach Exploration, Animal Habitats, Sun 6/23 Sunken Meadow State Park, Kings Park Flowers & Pollinators, All About Birds (5-7, 8-11) Sat 6/29 West Meadow Beach, Setauket NATIVE AMERICAN: Tools & Artifacts, Culture, Sun 6/30 Sunken Meadow State Park, Kings Park Wigwam, Pottery, Games & Legends, Campfi re Sat 7/6 Jones Beach State Park, Field 2 cooking (5-7, 8-11) Sun 7/7 Point Lookout Town Park, Point Lookout NEW!! JUNIOR GEOLOGIST: Discovering Dino- Sat 7/13 Sunken Meadow State Park, Kings Park saurs & Fossils, Daytime Astronomy, Rocks & Min- Sun 7/14 West Meadow Beach, Setauket erals, Erosion (5-7 only) Sat 7/20 Lido Beach Town Park, Lido Beach GEOLOGY: Rocks & Minerals, Water Erosion, Sun 7/21 Jones Beach State Park, Field 2 Daytime Astronomy, Fossils, Local Geology (8-11 Sat 7/27 Sunken Meadow State Park, Kings Park only) Sun 7/28 Point Lookout Town Park, Point Lookout MORNING (9:30am-12:30pm) & AFTERNOON (1- 4pm) sessions available. GARVIES BIRD GARDEN UPDATE By Jill Vomacka $150/CHILD/FOUR AM or PM SESSIONS. If you have not had an opportunity yet, visit Garvies Point CHILDREN CAN STAY FOR 4 FULL DAYS for Museum and Preserve and check out the Bird Garden $300/CHILD. and Native Plants there. It has been 6 years since we fi rst Registration & pre-payment required.No refunds started this project and the bushes and plants have fi lled in, grown and are now in blossom. All the rain has kept everything green and healthy without needing extra wa- Thank You Whole Foods tering. The water feature is drawing our feathered friends for generously supplying the in for a drink or a bath. Humming birds have been seen refreshments at our general meetings. at Garvies. Put your feeders out for them. They are here Whole Foods is located at Northern in the area. Blvd. and Port Washington Blvd. From the President Peggy Maslow was recaptured in Ontario, Canada, which surprised him since the bird went west when released, instead of Owlet Recovery north. This is some of the excitement that comes with Cathy and Bobby Horvath of WINORR, Wildlife in banding. Need of Rescue and Rehabilitation, rescued two Great Native Plant Garden Horned owlets at Hempstead Lake State Park the fi rst Bayville Village now has a native plant garden thanks week of April 2019. This is their story. to the eff orts of Bayville residents Barbara Garriel and The parent owls had picked a possible past coopers David Gugerty, NSAS and a collaborative grant from hawk nest that fell over fi fty feet to the ground with the AudubonNY. Also many thanks to Virginia Dankel, owlets during stormy weather. WINORR responded Barbara Mallon, Jennifer Wilson-Pines, Phil Benvin, and took the two owlets to a veterinarian who x-rayed Ken Krumenacker, John, and Jim Jones for their physi- them and found nothing broken. But one owlet needed cal labor. The Village of Bayville helped by sending two sutures. a dump truck to pick up free compost donated by LI Back at the Horvath residence, Cathy fed the owlets Compost in Westbury. Glover Perennials delivered 25 mice a day each for 5 days, observing them to make plants I ordered and Jennifer picked up more plants sure they were ready to be returned to their parents. from Atlantic Nurseries in Dix Hills. Meanwhile, Bobby built a nest box which he screwed Please remember to contact me if you want help into a diff erent tree, close to the site of the fi rst nest. creating a bird-friendly habitat in your own yard with The state park employees arranged orange saw hors- native plants. es as a symbolic barrier around the area to try to keep Rewild, a fairly new group started in Port Washing- people from being too close. The parent great horned ton, is collaborating with NSAS to plant 300 donated owls returned once the owlets were put into their new milkweed plants next to a NSAS native plant garden nest box. at Science Museum of Long Island. This group also On April 17, when I led a NSAS bird walk, one adult helped tremendously in maintenance of the NSAS gar- owl was clearly visible in a diff erent tree near the box den. Rewild is responsible for planting native plants nest that held the owlets. A few weeks later the owlets soon at the Unitarian Church in Manhasset. were fl ying around the area, fullly recovered. Cathy Horvath left her job as a veterinarian assis- 2019 NSAS Plant Sale a Huge SUCCESS tant to care for the over 900 animals a year that WIN- By Jill Vomacka ORR services. She said she stopped counting after 900. She described to me some of her recent charges Kathryne and I would like to thank all NSAS mem- which included other Great Horned owls. Those that bers, Friends of Garvies members and all other people can’t be rehabilitated stay with WINORR or sometimes who bought plants during our Native Plant Sale fund- go to Takapausha Preserve. The Horvath’s use these raiser this year! The proceedes will directly help pay for our speakers at general meetings, newsletters, mailings injured birds that can’t be released to educate audi- and web page technology costs (which keep rising every ences. year). Cathy and Bobby Horvath depend totally on donations In addition we would like to give a tremendous THANK so here is their address for those who want to contribute YOU to Veronica Victoria (Director of Garvies Point Mu- to WINORR: 202 North Wyoming Ave., Massapequa, seum and Preserve) for putting all the plant information NY 11758. Here is Kathy’s cell phone number, 516 together as well as the order sheet with the help of Kath- 293 0587, which is also listed on the Facebook page, if ryne Natale (co-chair of the plant sale). The informa- want to inform her of a bird in need of help. tion on the plants was a tremendous help especially to Bird Banding beginner gardeners who needed it for their garden and On May 11 at JFK Wildlife Preserve, Tobay Beach, made the order easy to calculate (for me). A big THANK YOU to the staff at Garvies who helped where Harvey Farber bands birds on weekends in May, tirelessly by setting up tables, rearranging the plants, la- September and October during migration, we caught beling plants and assisting buyers with their plants to a male yellow warbler already with a band. Harvey their car. looked up the number in his records and he originally The expected showers held off until the sale ended. All banded the bird in May 2015, which means the bird is extra plants were sold. Over 70 people bought plants at least 5 years old since it was an adult in 2015. So and hundreds of plants were sold. Plant buyers came we know that birds can live a few years. He once re- from as far as Sag Harbor. The word is getting out that captured a common yellow throat that was at least 8 the prices are right and the quality superb. years old. Last spring he banded a brown creeper that Until next year, HAPPY NATIVE PLANTING! 2 Summer 2019 Leaderless Walks - BIRD WALK SCHEDULE SPECIAL DISCOUNT Walks are for beginners and experienced birders alike. Weather permitting, Bayles Garden Center walks start at 9:30AM unless indicated otherwise ***. 88 S. Bayles Ave., Port Go to our website at www.northshoreaudubon.org/for directions and Washington is off ering a special cancelations. We would like to encourage carpooling, where possible. discount to NSAS members. June 6/5 Shu Swamp 20% off on seed and feeders, 6/12 Massapequa Preserve 6/19 Bailey Arboretum excluding sale items. Bring 6/26 Oakland Lake and APEC in your National Audubon membership card, or this NSAS July newsletter. 7/3 Oceanside 7/10 Clark Garden 7/17 Coast Guard Station 7/24 Muttontown OFFICERS - 2018-2020 7/31 Jamaica Bay WR Peggy Maslow, President 883-2130 Jill Vomacka, Vice President 671-9823 August Belinda Nielsen, Secretary 628-1315 8/7 Gerry Park, Hempstead Harbor and Cedarmere Eva Turel, Treasurer 448-3528 8/14 GarviesPoint DIRECTORS and COMMITTEE RESPONSIBILITIES 8/21 Hempstead Lake Education - Peggy Maslow 8/28 Bayard Cutting Arboretum Membership - Kathryne Natale 759-0925 Conservation - J.Wilson-Pines 767-3454 Field Notes Con from page 7 Publicity - Nancy Tognan 718-225-8064 Programs - Jill Vomacka, 671-9823 Jeanne 5/11 54 species incl: Solitary Sandpiper, E.