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Steve is currently a KU graduate student in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Macaw. www.fcit.usf.edu.
Biology. He is also volunteering as JAS Field Trip Chair revitalizing a position that has
been empty too long. Previous jobs include serving as a Conservation Associate at the
Kansas Land Trust and a Field Surveyor for the Michigan Breeding Bird Atlas. Steve and his wife, Sarah, traveled to
Peru last June. Here is your opportunity to leave January to its frozen self for an evening while you envision one of
the world’s birding meccas.
Dutch Treat Dinner with Steve Roels: 5:30 pm. Zen Zero. 811 Massachusetts.
Program: 7:30 pm. Trinity Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall. 1245 New Hampshire.
Ample parking in the lot east of the church. Refreshments served.
Bar-tailed
Hummingbird.
www.fcit.usf.edu All Programs of the Jayhawk Audubon Society are free and open to the public
Note that there is a new low price of $14.50 for 25 pounds of black oil sunflower seed AND it’s
locally grown by Ted Grinter. No 50 lb. bags of black oil this sale though. See you on the 31st.
P.S. If you are out of seed now, call Linda because she has some stored: 785-842-2300.
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Take a helper: a best buddy, mom, dad, brothers, sisters…any sharp eyes.
STARTING OUT: Pick a place that has trees and shrubs of different kinds and sizes.
Maybe your own neighborhood, local park or nature center, or your
favorite spot for nature hikes. A stream or lake also attracts birds.
Make a map of the place in your journal showing paths, streets and landmarks.
You can make the map before your quest if you know the area already.
It’s fine to draw the map as you quest too.
Your map can be as big or small as you want it to be. You may need to
Oriole’s nest. Journey North spread it over several pages in your journal if you like big maps.
QUESTING: As you walk, scan trees and bushes for nests. Depending where you go,
you may see anything from little songbird cup nests made of grasses and
twigs to very large, stick nests made by hawks.
Mark nest locations on your map. Write down what the nest is made of,
its size and anything else you want to remember, like the date or weather.
Do you see holes in any tree trunks that may be woodpecker nests?
Are there any huge clumps of leaves in the trees? These could be squirrel
Downy Woodpecker. nests. What about animal tracks? Put these on your map too if you want.
Dianne Pierce.
IMAGINING: Do the birds seem to have a certain type of tree or part of the tree
they like best for their nests?
Are there nests you walked past many times in the summer that you
never saw because they were so well hidden by leaves?
Can you tell what might be growing or living nearby in the summer
that the birds could eat?
Are the birds you see now in the winter the same ones that made the
nests? A bird field guide will tell you or you can check back in the summer.
Field Mouse nest. 50Birds.com
WHAT ??QUESTIONS?? DO YOU HAVE?
MORE FUN: Next spring or summer repeat your nest quest.
Songbirds don’t reuse their nests (they usually fall apart during
the winter), but do they use the same tree or one nearby?
Go to a wetlands and look for nests in reeds and grasses.
They may not all belong to birds.
Eagles Day activities: January 25, 2009. Free State High School. (or page 2 of this newsletter)
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From the Recycling in Kansas Newsletter JAS officers & Board Members
President: Chuck Herman: 913-301-3921
JANUARY 2009, VOL. 21, NO. 1
hermansnuthouse@earthlink.net
COAL PLANT Vice President: Richard Bean
We were able to stop the huge, ugly, dangerous, unnecessary coal plant in Recording Sec’y: Julie Trowbridge
western Kansas, but the Kansas Legislature will probably be at it again this Corresponding: Sec’y: Pam Chaffee
year. The Legislature begins business on January 12. Write or call or e-mail Treasurer: Jennifer Delisle
your state senator and representative telling them that we DON’T WANT Member Chapter
THAT POLLUTING PLANT IN KANSAS. If you need to know who your Change Report: Chuck & Ruth Herman
legislators are, call the Legislative Hotline at 1-800-432-3924. Membership
Promotion: Dayna Carleton
~ Margaret Miller, editor, Recycling in Kansas Newsletter Newsletter: Susan Iversen: 785-843-1142
kanzania@yahoo.com (316) 686-2555 siversen@sunflower.com
430 Waverly, Wichita KS 67218 Conservation: Sara Katich
Programs: Joyce Wolf
JOIN THE GREAT BACKYARD BIRD COUNT Education: VOLUNTEER NEEDED
Field Trips: Steve Roels
February 13-16, 2009 Publicity: Dayna Carleton
Anyone can take part, from novice bird watchers to experts, by Electronic Communications: Karyn Baker-Riney
counting birds for as little as 15 minutes (or as long as you wish) on one or Bird Seed Sale: Linda Lips
more days of the event and reporting sightings online at www.birdcount.org. Birdathon: Richard Bean
Contact the Cornell Lab of Ornithology at (800) 843-2473 or National Christmas Count: Galen Pittman
Audubon at citizenscience@audubon.org or (215) 355-9588, ext 16. Migratory Count: VOLUNTEER NEEDED
Eagles Day: Ed & Cynthia Shaw
Hospitality: Esther Smith
Elizabeth Schultz Environmental Fund Grants Historian: Ron Wolf
The Elizabeth Schultz Environmental Fund had awarded nearly $30,000 for Books & Feeders: Ron & Joyce Wolf
2009 to six local efforts to preserve and understand nature. Grantees are: Board Member: Dena Friesen
Board Member: Lisa Grossman
Spencer Museum of Art in support of two 2009 environment-themed Board Member: Mark King
exhibitions with educational components. "Climate Change at the Board Member: Jake Vail
Poles" and "Trees and Other Ramifications"; Board Member: Alice Weis
Prairie Moon Waldorf School to establish an organic market garden Art in Birds/
to serve as an expanded school classroom for academic, artistic and
practical work. The school, located on prime farmland in the Kaw Birds in Art
River Valley, encourages children to connect with the natural world;
Enter a new contest from the Celebrate Urban
Birds Project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Friends of Hidden Valley for stream and habitat restoration at
Look for art in birds: a broken down nest in win-
Hidden Valley Camp, a 40-acre Girl Scout camp in Lawrence;
ter, a song recording, a video of a bird perching
on your window, something that makes you pause,
Kansas Rural Center for an international exchange program aimed at
look twice, laugh, cry. Take photos, paint, write
educating our community about growing food locally;
a story, create a sculpture. Selected entries will
be posted on the Celebrate Urban Birds website.
Kansas Land Trust for signs marking local conservation easements;
First, learn more at: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/
Lecompton Elementary School to establish a Monarch way station. celebration/challenge/birds-in-art/ Email your
entry to urbanbirds@cornell.edu before 1/31/09.
The Elizabeth Schultz Environmental Fund was established in 2005. The
Douglas County Community Foundation has awarded more than $1 million 1. Write "Art in Birds/Birds in Art contest" in
in grants this year in support of health, youth, education, arts and culture, the subject line.
the environment and human services. 2. Include name and mailing address in the email.
~Marilyn Hull, Program and Communications Officer 3. Tell us why you submitted your entry to the
Douglas County Community Foundation Art in Birds/Birds in Art contest.
900 Massachusetts, Suite 406, Lawrence, KS 66044 ~ Karen Purcell, Celebrate Urban Birds
Phone 785-843-8735 Fax 785-843-8735
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Contest:
Application for New Membership in both: National Audubon Society and Jayhawk Chapter
___$15 Student; ___$20 Introductory for NEW members; ____$15 Senior Citizen.
(Make check payable to National Audubon Society.)
National Audubon Society members receive four issues per year of the Audubon magazine and are also
members of the Jayhawk Chapter. All members also receive 10 issues of this newsletter per year and are
entitled to discounts on books and feeders that are sold to raise funds to support education and conservation
projects. Please send this completed form and check to Membership Chairs at the following address:
Ruth & Chuck Herman; 20761 Loring Road, Linwood, KS 66052; e-mail contact:
hermansnuthouse@earthlink.net . {National Members Renewing: please use the billing form received
from National and send it with payment to National Audubon Society in Boulder, CO}.