Volume 32, Issue 10 JUNE, 2008
www.jayhawkaudubon.org
“...the birds sang as if every sparkling drop were a fountain of inspiration…”
Charles Dickens.
The Pickwick Papers
MONDAY, JUNE 23
WATER GARDENING
Prepare to be amazed at the vast opportunities to select from a myriad of water-related features that willattract birds to your back yard. Deb Spencer, co-owner with Susan Davis of Water’s Edge in Lawrence, will beour June program speaker. Deb will share tips on adding water features to your landscape to enhance its value for a variety of wildlife species. As a testimony to Deb and Susan’s ingenuity and creativity, their operation iscelebrating its 19
th
anniversary this year.In addition to our regular program at 7:30 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, Deb will offer JAS members aguided tour of some of the options available to gardeners at Water’s Edge at 5:00 p.m. This will provide you withthe chance to view in person plants that can be used in and around smaller water features that require less spaceand less maintenance than a traditional pond. Exciting benefits are possible: “Creating a wildlife garden canevolve unsuspectingly. Often it happens after the installation of the first water garden
.
Suddenly dragonflies and birds never seen before appear in the garden
.”
(Helen Nash,
Water Features for Every Garden
)
-Joyce Wolf
Water’s Edge Plant Tour:
5:00 p.m. At the store: 847 Indiana Street, Lawrence.
Dinner with Deb:
BYO. 6:00 p.m. at India Palace. 129 East 10
th
Street, downtown Lawrence.
Program:
7:30 p.m. Trinity Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall. 1245 New Hampshire. Park in the lot east of the church. Refreshments will be served.
In the event of rain
, the tour will be
cancelled.
The dinner and program will go on.
All programs of the Jayhawk Audubon Society are free and open to the public
Arrowhead. ShropshireBotanical SocietyWater Soldier.Shropshire Botanical Society
Prairie Wildflower Walks
June is a peak time for prairie beauty. The Kansas Native Plant Society sponsors many prairie forays throughout the state allsummer and fall: see www.kansasnativeplantsociety.org for a calendar. Even if you can’t make the event, you can get directionsto the site and make a trip sometime on your own. You might not learn botanical names that way but you can still bask in the openskies and ground-level intricacy and richness of the prairie web of life. The Coblentz and Grant-Bradbury prairies are on the list andare nearby and don’t forget the Konza. Find directions and info on the Konza at www.naturalkansas.org. The Kansas Land Trustallows “respectful daytime access” to its Akin Prairie. Contact them at 785-749-3297 for directions. Topeka Audubon is sponsor-ing a June 21st trip to the Tall Grass Prairie National Preserve to see birds and plants. Call Dan Gish: 785-232-3731 for details.So dig out your walking shoes, leave behind all discouraging words and ramble “where the skies are not cloudy all day.”
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2008/09 Slate of Officers
Voting for 2008/09 officers of the Jayhawk Audubon Soci-ety will take place at the June general meeting on MondayJune 23rd at 7:30 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church at 1245 New Hampshire St. in Lawrence.
.The JAS Board Nominating Committee is advancing thefollowing slate, but nominations from the floor are welcome:President: Chuck HermanVice President: Richard BeanRecording Secretary: Julie TrowbridgeCorresponding Secretary: Pam Chaffee New board members at large are Sara Katich, Mark Kingand Alice Weis. Steve Roels has volunteered to be Field TripChair which is very good news for everyone who would likemore opportunities to go on guided walks locally. Chairs arestill needed for the Education Committee and the MigratoryCount. Call or email Chuck Herman if you can help in anycapacity: 913-301-3921 or hermansnuthouse@earthlink.net.
Birdathon 2008 Report
The weather on Birdathon weekend, May 3 & 4, was drier than last year, which was a plus for humans seeking birds, butalso very windy which may have kept some birds in shelter andharder to see. Of course the chance nature of what you mightfind is part of the appeal of birdwatching; otherwise we couldall just head for the zoo! In fact this year Birdathoners found 2Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks at Baker/Haskell Wetlands, a bird new to the Douglas Cty checklist! See full list on page 3.This year’s birders wereKelly Barth, Richard Bean-Birdathon Chair, George Frazier,Lisa Grossman, Susan Iversen,Linda Lips, Galen Pittman, SteveRoels, David Seibel, Alice Weis,Jeff Witters and Ron & JoyceWolf. Much of the birding waslocal with Burcham Park, ClintonLake, the Wetlands, Douglas CtyState lake and the Wolf’s very productive feeders all covered.Jeff Witters birded Quivira NWR and Cheyenne Bottoms producinga great shorebird list, and Linda Lips went down to the WildcatGlades Conservation and Audubon Center in Joplin, MO and birded the Ozarks’ Roaring River State Park.
Contribute to the Birdathon! Send a check made out to JASto P.O. Box 3741. Lawrence, KS 66046. It’s tax deductible and100% is used for local conservation and education projects.
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck.Sonoran Desert Museum
ZEBRA MUSSEL ALERT
Zebra mussels are now infesting Perry Lake as well as ElDorado & Cheney Reservoirs., Winfield City Lake & the WalnutRiver. They are incredibly damaging, attaching to surfaces bythe millions in layers up to 6 inches deep, clogging water intakes& boat motors, cutting swimmers’ feet, smothering native mus-sels and depleting fishes’ food! Remediation efforts are verycostly and not very effective.
PREVENTION IS KEY
. It isup to ALL who use Kansas rivers and lakes to stop the spread.Zebra mussel larvae are microscopic and free floating so theycan easily & unknowingly be transported. IT IS ILLEGAL toimport or release Zebra mussels in Kansas.
HERE’S HOW TO BREAK THE CHAIN
:
•
Never move fish, bait or water from one body of water to another.
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Empty bait buckets on dry land, not in the water.
•
Drain water from bilges and live wells and inspect themand trailers, skis, anchors and remove visiblevegetation and organisms.
Let all equipment
dry
for 5 days
before entering another waterway. OR wash with 10% chlorine and water solution or 104 degree water or hot salt water. Rinsewith clean water. DO NOT wash on boat ramps.Contact KDWP at 620-342-0658 if you see Zebra musselsin a lake or river other than the five listed above.
The JAS Website Has Molted! New Plumage on Display
After you return from your prairie excursion (p. 1), and,
very
important
, shower off any bloodsucking hitch-hikers,relax by checking out the new look of the JAS website:www.jayhawkaudubon.org. KU student Kim Le volunteeredher expertise to redesign and update it and it is much easier tonavigate.You will particularly notice the incredibly beautiful andevocative banner depicting the Wetlands. Lisa Grossmandonated her artwork and Dena Friesen donated her designtalents to produce the banner, and their collaboration has produced an image that opens mental vistas and creates asense of possibilities. It should draw people to JAS. KarynBaker-Riney has volunteered to continue the big job of maintaining the website. Kudos to these volunteers for their generosity & skillful work!
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Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Semipalmated Sandpiper Canada Goose Least Sandpiper Wood Duck White-rumped Sandpiper Mallard Baird’s Sandpiper Blue-winged Teal Pectoral Sandpiper Cinnamon Teal Short-billed Dowitcher Northern Shoveler Long-billed Dowitcher Northern Pintail Common SnipeGreen-winged Teal Wilson’s PhalaropeLesser Scaup Franklin’s GullRuddy Duck Bonaparte’s GullRing-necked Pheasant Ring-billed GullWild Turkey Herring Gull Northern Bobwhite Forster’s TernPied-billed Grebe Rock DoveEared Grebe Eurasian Collared-DoveWestern Grebe Mourning DoveAmerican White Pelican Eastern Screech-OwlDouble-crested Cormorant Great Horned OwlAmerican Bittern Barred OwlGreat Blue Heron Chuck-will’s-widowGreat Egret Whip-poor-willSnowy EgretLittle Blue HeronCattle EgretGreen HeronBlack-crowned Night-HeronYellow-crowned Night-HeronWhite-faced IbisBlack VultureTurkey VultureOspreyBald EagleSharp-shinned Hawk Swainson’s Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American KestrelVirginia Rail Chimney SwiftSora Belted Kingfisher American Coot Red-bellied Woodpecker Snowy Plover Downy Woodpecker Semipalmated Plover Hairy Woodpecker Killdeer Northern Flicker Black-necked Stilt Pileated Woodpecker American Avocet Eastern Wood-PeeweeGreater Yellowlegs Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Lesser Yellowlegs Acadian Flycatcher Willet Least Flycatcher Spotted Sandpiper Eastern PhoebeMarbled Godwit Great Crested Flycatcher Sanderling Western KingbirdEastern Kingbird Orange-crowned Warbler Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Nashville Warbler Loggerhead Shrike Northern ParulaWhite-eyed Vireo Yellow Warbler Bell’s Vireo Yellow-rumped Warbler Yellow-throated Vireo Blackburnian Warbler Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-throated Warbler Warbling Vireo Prairie Warbler Philadelphia Vireo Palm Warbler Red-eyed Vireo Blackpoll Warbler Blue Jay Black-and-white Warbler American Crow American RedstartHorned Lark Prothonotary Warbler Purple Martin OvenbirdTree Swallow Northern Waterthrush Northern Rough-winged Kentucky Warbler Swallow Common YellowthroatBank Swallow Wilson’s Warbler Cliff Swallow Summer Tanager Barn Swallow Scarlet Tanager Carolina Chickadee Spotted TowheeBlack-capped Chickadee Chipping SparrowTufted Titmouse Clay-colored SparrowRed-breasted Nuthatch Field SparrowWhite-breasted Nuthatch Lark SparrowCarolina Wren Savannah SparrowHouse Wren Grasshopper SparrowMarsh Wren LeConte’s SparrowRuby-crowned Kinglet Song SparrowBlue-gray Gnatcatcher Lincoln’s SparrowEastern Bluebird Swamp SparrowGray-cheeked Thrush White-throated SparrowSwainson’s Thrush Harris’ SparrowAmerican Robin White-crowned SparrowGray Catbird Northern Cardinal Northern Mockingbird Rose-breasted Grosbeak Brown Thrasher Indigo BuntingEuropean Starling Painted BuntingAmerican Pipit DickcisselBlue-winged Warbler Red-winged BlackbirdTennessee Warbler Eastern Meadowlark Yellow-headed BlackbirdCommon GrackleGreat-tailed GrackleBrown-headed CowbirdOrchard OrioleBaltimore OrioleHouse FinchAmerican GoldfinchHouse Sparrow
White-faced Ibis.Daniel Kilby
Sonoran Desert Museum Narca Moore-CraigWestern Kingbird
2008 Birdathon List: 177 Species Found
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