Newsletter of the Northern Arizona Audubon Society

May Meetings

OWLS-MESSENGERS OFWIZARDS AND WITCHES —

SIGNS OF THE UNDERWORLD Sarah Reif, Habitat Program Manager for Arizona Game and Fish Dept. Region II, will present this program for our May 19 and 20 meetings. She will talk about the strange beliefs associated with owls as well as factual information about the owls of Arizona. Very few birds have inspired more folklore and mythology than the owl. For centuries, cultures around the world have carried with them different beliefs about owls as symbols of wisdom, evil, luck, death, fertility, and sin. In Luxembourg, owls spy treasures, and steal and hoard them. In Mexico, the owl is a messenger between the living and the dead, and makes the north wind cold (and the butterfly makes the south wind warm). If a Louisiana Cajun hears an owl hooting late at night, they get up from bed and turn their left shoe upside down to avert disaster. The Tohono O’Oodham people in southern Arizona believe crossing paths with little owls is an evil omen. And as Harry Potter would tell us, owls are personal messengers for wizards and witches. What is it about the owl that conjures such fear and mystery? Perhaps it is the shroud of darkness in which they hunt and live. Owls are the only nocturnal birds of prey in North America; they have evolved unique eye features, feathers, flight, and behaviors that make them skilled nighttime predators. Together we will explore how these creatures of the night inspire and terrify the world’s cultures, shed some light on their adaptation to nocturnal hunting, and meet the ghoulish cast of owl species haunting the forests, deserts and grasslands of Arizona. Sarah Reif has been with Arizona Game and Fish

Department off and on for 10 years. Sarah was born and raised in Arizona, and is committed to working with people to conserve

Photo by George Andrejko, AGFD

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Arizona’s wildlife and habitats for future generations. She lives in the woods outside of Flagstaff with her husband and their dog; when the northern pygmy-owl starts hooting outside her window every spring, she knows it’s time to get the greens started in the garden.

2010-2011Board

Nominations This year’s nominating committee proposes the following nominations for the Northern Arizona Audubon Board:

Zack Zdinak for PresidentRoger Radd for ConservationAnita MacFarlane for Member-At-largeBarbara Hirt for Membership Debbie Compton for Newsletter Editor

The following positions are open and we have no nominees for them at this time:

Education – both Above & Below the RimMembership – Above the RimDevelopmentPublicity – Below the Rim

Perhaps you are motivated “To promote the understanding and appreciation of birds and other wildlife and the conservation and restoration of their natural habitats.” Please call us for more details and offer your assistance. Maybe you could introduce us to a friend who has useful skills!

As active members, you can also contribute off the Board on the following projects: • Greeting members at our Flagstaff and Sedona meetings.• Assisting birding visitors at Page Springs Visitor Center.• Digging thistle and trash pick up at Logans Crossing.• Be a Field Trip Leader to your favorite birding location.

Contact: Zack Zdinak at 928-774-4229, wildlife@lifedraw.com, or Kathie at 928.522.0375 or k.satterfield@yahoo.com.

The May meetings are the annual meetings where the vote will take place.

Photo by George Andrejko, AGFD

Photo by George Andrejko, AGFD

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– President’s Corner – Zackery Zdinak

May/Summer 2010

Springtime for many of us is marked with outdoor events and festivals. Our community outreach table at the Flagstaff Earth Day event last weekend had a steady stream of children and adults coloring hummingbird pendants with crayons, markers and glitter glue. Perhaps you’ve seen a few of these wildly imaginative hummers around town! What really intrigued me were the number of bird lovers that told me they didn’t know about Northern Arizona Audubon Society, the walks we lead, nor the speakers we host! So, Audubon Members, I challenge you to spread the word this Summer! Tell your friends about our meetings or website! Who knows, you could be surprised how many neighbors may share your interest in backyard birds or local conservation issues. There will be ample opportunity to join Northern Arizona Audubon Society birding events from May through August for

your, and our, enjoyment! Check out the regular Field Trips for the next four months. In addition, read how we will be introducing birders old and new to our Important Bird Area, IBA, at Page Springs Fish Hatchery near Cornville in the Verde Valley. If you haven’t strolled the paths there yet, you are in for a very birdy treat! Maybe we’ll catch each other buzzing about the gardens at The Arboretum At Flagstaff’s Hummingbird Festival or joining the White Mountains Audubon Society at their high-elevation campout, both in June. In between all the outings we have planned, I know I share slow-birding with many of you. How simply lovely it is to sit lazily on the patio on a slow weekend morning watching the hummingbirds at the feeder and flowers, a family of quail scurry across the drive or a flash of oriole-orange streak across the yard. If for some reason we don’t cross birding paths through the Summer, I look forward to seeing you, and all the new friends you bring, when we resume our members meetings in September!

Zackery Zdinak

INCREASE YOURIMPACT

You can help protect birds by asking your elected officials to support the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act, a vital conservation program that supports monitoring efforts, habitat restoration, education, and other projects in the United States, Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean. You can find out more and send a message directly to your members of Congress at Audubon’s Action Center www.audubonaction.org. You can also sign up to receive alerts and timely news about issues that affect birds and other wildlife.

ARBORETUM BIRD WALKS Starting Saturday, May 1st, and continuing through June and July, the Arboretum at Flagstaff will be offering its Saturday morning bird walks. These begin at 7:30 am and last until roughly 9:00 am, and

involve a leisurely walk through the Arboretum grounds. They are led by experienced NAAS

birders and are a delightful way to not only become acquainted or

reacquainted with our local resident birds, and possibly a few late migrants, but also

to enjoy the variety of gardens and settings the Arboretum offers. Best of all the entrance is free.

See you at the

HUMMINGBIRD FESTIVAL!Arboretum at Flagstaff

Saturday, June 26, 2010 • 9:00 am – 3:00 pmFree with regular admission

• Susan Worthington, Hummingbird Monitoring Network www.hummonnet.org• Ross Hawkins, Hummingbird Society www.hummingbirdsociety.org• Arizona Game & Fish Dept.• Guides for tours of gardens featuring hummingbird-friendly plants.• Hummingbird food plants for sale.• Children’s activities.

For details and directions, visit www.thearb.org then look under the Annual Events menu, or call (928) 774-1442, ext. 110.

VOLUNTEER CORNERNAAS could use your help with the following:

• Education, both above & below the rim

• Field Trip leaders, above the rim

• Membership, above the rim

• Digging thistle and trash pick up at Logans Crossing• Working at our table at various events such as the Science Fair; Sustainability Fair and Earth Day.

If you have a skill you think we could use for some other project, not mentioned above, please feel free to contact me to discuss your idea. NAAS is an entirely volunteer based organization, so the more volunteers we have, the better hope we have of achieving our mission. For more information contact Kathie Satterfield 928-522-0375 or k.satterfield@yahoo.com

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UPCOMING FIELD TRIPS

Beginning Birders Field Trip To Willow Bend

Saturday, May 1st Troy Blodgett, leader

A good mix of birds can be expected for this family friendly walk along the stretch of the Rio de Flag from Willow Bend to the area beneath I-40 near Sam’s Club. Bring binoculars and field guide if you have them; we will have some extra binoculars for use, too. Likely species include Western Tanager, Common Yellowthroat, Spotted Sandpiper and a number of sparrows. We will meet at 8:00 am at Willow Bend Environmental Education Center, 703 E. Sawmill Road, in Flagstaff. For more information call Terry Blows at 928-774-8028 or e-mail him at Terence.Blows@nau.edu

West Fork of Oak CreekSaturday, May 1st

Phyllis Lindberg, leader Meet in Sedona at the Uptown Municipal Parking Lot (follow the signs along Jordan Rd, right on Schnebly) at 8:30 am. We will carpool to West Fork because the parking charge is $10 per car: (those of us with Golden Age passports can get our carload in for $5, not bad). If you are coming down from the north, call Phyllis Lindberg, 928-282-1247, to arrange carpooling from Flagstaff. Hopefully the high water will have subsided so we can make the crossings. Walking sticks will be helpful. We will stalk acorn woodpeckers, painted redstarts, red-faced warblers & other warblers, and maybe Bullock’s oriols & western tanagers. Bring snacks/lunch.

East Rio de Flag

Sunday, May 23rdJim Logan, leader

The East Rio de Flag, also known as Logan’s Crossing, is a small area off Townsend-Winona Road that is locally famous for its birds. Some 164 species have been recorded in this area in the last few years and the last week of May is prime time for this spot. We will meet in the area of McDonalds and on Highway 89 (going toward Page and just past the mall) at 8 am.

Owling Field Trip Sunday, May 30th Sarah Reif, leader

Please consult the webpage under Field Trips after May 17 to learn the meeting place and time.

Walnut CanyonSaturday, June 5th

Steve and Betsy McKellar, leaders

We will visit part of Walnut Canyon, outside of the national Monument, hoping to find a variety of warblers in the trees as well as raptors soaring overhead. This trip requires some very serious up and downhill hiking and will take at least 4 hours with no op-tions for leaving early as there is no vehicle access to the canyon rim. We will meet at 6 a.m. at Little America to car pool to the start of our hike. For more information call Terry Blows at 928-774-8028 or e-mail him at Terence.Blows@nau.edu

Hay and Tremaine Lakesarea of Anderson Mesa

Saturday, June 19thJill Oertly, leader

This trip heads to the south end of the Anderson Mesa IBA to visit Hay and Tremaine Lakes, an area that is not generally open to the public and therefore seldom birded. Due to the driving time to this area, this trip will have an early start, around 6 am. Please contact Elaine Morrall 928-526-1022 or elaimorr@npgcable.com no later than June 8th if you are interested in attending this trip as there may be limits on the number of people or vehicles.

Kachina WetlandsSaturday, July 10th

Dave Lamkin, leader

Meet at the Raymond County Park in Kachina Village at 8 am for a couple of hours of birding at the Kachina Wetlands. There are bound to be a variety of birds around including Red-winged and Yellow-headed Blackbirds and Common Yellowthroat. Be-ginners are very welcome on this trip. For more information call Terry Blows at 928-774-8028 or e-mail him at Terence.Blows@nau.edu

San Francisco PeaksSaturday, July 31st

Terry Blows, leader

Meet in the Bashas parking lot at the top of Humphrey’s Street in Flagstaff at 8 am for a morning’s birding on the Peaks. The plan is to bird ‘halfway up’ Snowbowl road and then again at the top to see what variety we can find. Expected species in-clude Green-tailed Towhees, House Wrens, Varied Thrushes, Red-breasted Nuthatches and Clark’s Nutcrackers. For more information call Terry Blows at 928-774-8028 or e-mail him at Terence.Blows@nau.edu

Migration Count is

May 8 Go birding, count all individuals of all species you see and report your re-

sults to have them tallied with this national event. You may have participated in a Christmas Bird Count and this is similar except that the area is not a circle, but a whole county and the count takes place on just one day, the second Saturday of May each year. May 8 is estimated to be near the peak of migration and the information gained provides insight into how and when songbirds move from their wintering grounds to their breeding grounds. NAAS participates by informing its members of the date and “rules of the game.” What could be simpler or more natural than spending a day, or morning or afternoon counting birds? Just estimate your time, distance traveled and report on the form provided. You will be doing a good thing for birds, NAAS and yourself. Please contact Bea Cooley, 526-5069 or beacooley@aol.com for more information and for a copy of the reporting form.

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FIELD TRIP REPORTS Page Springs Photography (March 27)

Nine people but very few cameras attended the Pho-tography Field trip to Page Springs. The wintering water-fowl had mostly moved on leaving the ponds largely empty, but the group saw 28 species of birds in a leisurely 2-hour wander through the area. The day’s first birds were a Bald Eagle and Common Black-hawk while Osprey, Northern Rough-winged Swallows and singing Lucy’s warblers along the river provided evidence that spring is on its way.

Utah Sage-Grouse (March 12-13) As I was standing, on a cold but sunny morning, in a vast plain of sage in western Utah, I was wondering what was the coolest part of this trip. Was it watching the male Greater Sage-Grouse, on his lek, nervously strutting his inflated throat sac under the watchful eye of a Golden Eagle which was perched on a small rise only 100 yards away? Or was it pulling into Cedar City and seeing twenty-five wild Turkey quietly foraging next to the road? Perhaps it was Condors #53 and 36 passing just over our heads, on Navajo Bridge, while we were scoping out two other Condors starting to act like a pair. At that moment, I chose the Sage-Grouse, but later in the morning when we went to Minerville Lake and saw hundreds of Snow Geese being scattered by a Bald Eagle that caught one of their flock, I wasn’t so sure. I was considering this as I was driving towards Kanab when a male Pronghorn and his harem stood by the road and continued to browse while I stopped for a close look. So now as I sit at home, I still can’t decide. However, I plan to join our friends Red Cliffs Audubon next year and spend more time in this fascinating area. Submitted by Brent Bitz, on behalf of fellow NAZ Audubon travelers Terry Heuermann, Paula and Harold Ables.

Red Tank Draw (March 20) Our Spring Equinox trip to Red Tank Draw began with a chilly wind that kept birds hunkered down and participants (two all the way from Chino Valley) bundled. Soon lichen spattered cliffs and the tumble-down song of the canyon wren worked their magic and made the day very special. We saw the first spring Lucy’s warblers and common black-hawks. Also cactus and rock wrens, and black-throated spar-rows. Our finale were brilliant western bluebirds and the amaz-ing petroglyphs of Red Tank Draw.

Page Springs Bird WalksFridays in May

Come and join us at NAAS’ premier birding location, Page Springs, for four consecutive

Friday bird walks - Friday May 7, May 14, May 21 and May 28. Page Springs is an Arizona Important Bird Area (IBA) and in May the area will be a wonder of bird song

and color. Also learn about the proposed NAAS visitor center at Page Springs which

may be finished toward the end of May. Walks will start at 7:30 am at the Page Springs Fish Hatchery, at the bath rooms/visitor center. (The Fish Hatchery is the area with the covered fish rearing ponds and paved parking lot) After a loop around this area we will drive to Bubbling Ponds section of the IBA, on the other side of Oak Creek. Expect about 1-1.5 miles

of trail walking. Bring lots of water. This time of year hot weather may be encountered.

Research on Southwestern CuckoosSubject of Presentation at Tuzigoot

A special slide presentation, “Southwestern Cuckoos: a Study in Contrasts”, will be held Wednesday, May 5, 1 p.m. in the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center, Clarkdale, Arizona. Susan MacVean, a biologist with Arizona Game and Fish, will describe the natural history and conservation of these fascinating birds, members of one of the largest and most diverse families of birds. MacVean, the nongame biologist for the Flagstaff office of Arizona Game and Fish, has worked for over 20 years studying the species and habitats of northern Arizona.Recently she has focused on gartersnakes and leopard frogs, but also monitors peregrines, golden eagles, and conducts marsh bird and riparian bird surveys. “Roadrunners have probably inspired more affection and folklore than any other desert dweller,” explained MacVean. “Legends include trapping sleeping rattlesnakes, confounding evil spirits with their footprints, and portending safe journeys”. The researcher also will discuss some of the physical attributes of the roadrunner, “their short wings are only suitable for abbreviated glides, but on the ground they can easily travel at 15 miles per hour, the pace of a 4-minute mile”. Many people, she adds, are interested in the dietary habits of roadrunners, “They are not picky eaters! Roadrunners consume venomous and spiny foods, including insects, spiders, snakes, lizards, bats, rodents and even birds they can run down or snatch out of the air”. The elusive Yellow-billed cuckoo, a migratory neotropical visitor to breeding grounds in the Verde Valley, also will be featured in MacVean’s slide show. “The distinctive stuttering call of this bird is heard much more often than the bird is actually seen”, she explained. In central Arizona, the Yellow-billed cuckoo arrives in mid-June through the first of July. “The onset of breeding is apparently correlated with an abundant local food supply. The breeding cycle only takes 17 days from egg-laying to fledging, and nestlings can become fully feathered in two hours”. The presentation is free with regular admission to Tuzigoot National Monument. The Annual pass, Senior pass and Access pass are also accepted; children 15 and under are no fee. For additional information, contact John Reid at Tuzigoot National Monument, 928-634-5564.

Great Salt LakeBirding Festival

May 13-17/2010 is the date of Utah’s “Great Salt Lake Birding

Festival” If you are interested in attending, please contact Elaine Morrall

526-1022 for information about hotels and to arrange car pooling.

Many excellent field trips will show off large numbers of shorebirds and

local specialties as Sage, Dusky and Ruffed Grouse, Gray Partridge,

California Quail, Chukar and Black Rosy-finch. Please visit the festival

website at http://www.greatsaltlakebirdfest.com/ for detailed information

on all aspects of the event.

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New & Renewing Members

Valerie Behnke

Terence & Sulojana Blows

Carl & Joanne Breitmaier

Virginia V. Chanda

John Coons

Matt Crozier

Carole Currin

Susan Edgar

Joanne Elliott

Ted Fritzinger

Ginny Griffith

Don Hahn

Ross & Beth Hawkins

John Hildebrand

Betty & Earle Hoyt

– HELP WANTED –Membership Chair Assistant

We are seeking a person to assist with membership above the Rim. In general it would entail:

1. Provide membership information at Flagstaff monthly meetings.

2. Greet visitors at Flagstaff meetings and make them feel welcome.

3. Collect and send information on new and renewing members in Flagstaff to the Membership Chair.

If you can help, please contact Barbara Hirt, Membership Chair, at 928-284-3367 or ragalyi-hirt@esedona.net.

Birders, Check theLocal Field Trip forum for updates,

new field trips and trip reports!Go to nazaudubon.com/sightings

Recycle a Milk Carton.It’s for the birds! Audubon Licensing and Audubon Adventures are proud to announce the Make Your Own milk Carton Birdfeeder promotion in association with Stonyfield Farm. Make use of your empty milk cartons, reduce waste and help wild birds too! PLUS, kids (with permission from their parents) can submit their creations online from April 1st through August 31st. Five participants will be selected by Audubon to be displayed in an on-line art exhibit with their names, photos and outstanding milk carton bird feeders. The five featured participants will be posted on Stonyfield’s website and Audubon’s website. Beginning April 1st, please visit: http://audubon.org/educate/kids/birdfeeder.html for details.

Edmund & Amelia Jaskulski

Patricia List & Eugene Mai

Linda Litchfield & Donna Coffin

Anita Macfarlane

Bob Meyer

Elaine Morrall

Sanova Murphy

Mimi Murov & Thomas Brownold

Lois Neville

Irma & Klaus Wagenbach

Steven Weaver

Tim Weber

Paul Weitz

F. Joseph Willy

To see when your membership expires, look at the date next to your address

on your newsletter.

Changingof the Guard at Audubon Arizona Following eight years of outstanding leadership in building the Audubon Arizona program, Sam Campana has assumed the

newly created position of Founding Director of Audubon Arizona. Sam’s new emphasis will be primarily fund raising, but she will continue to provide input in the areas of public policy, strategic planning and public relations. Sam’s contribution to building a successful state program and completing the Nina Mason Pulliam Rio Salado Audubon Center is immeasurable. Under Sam’s leadership, Audubon Arizona completed a $7.3 million campaign to build the new Audubon Center along the Rio Salado in Phoenix and launched the state’s IBA Program in partnership with Tucson Audubon and our Chapters statewide. Sarah Porter was selected to succeed Sam as the new VP, Executive Director of Audubon Arizona. Sarah joined Audubon AZ as Associate Director and Director of the Rio Salado Audubon Center in 2006 following a period of service on the Board of Directors. Sarah has played a pivotal role in the design of Audubon’s education programs and in ensuring the successful design and construction of the new Audubon Center. Sarah is very excited to be taking on this new role and will be working hard to ensure the long term success and sustainability of the Audubon Center, all the while helping lead new conservation initiatives in Arizona including a Protect Arizona’s River Initiative which includes the Colorado River watershed and its Arizona tributaries.

The Audubon Guide to Binoculars, by Wayne Mones, originally

published as an insert in the

November - December issue of

AUDUBON, can be viewed or

downloaded online at

http://audubonmagazine.org/features0911/betterBirding.html

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Birdathon is for everyone! It is for individuals and teams, the young and the not so young, beginning birders and those with large life lists. It is for you! May in northern Arizona brings out the residents and migrants, vagrants and endemics (this applies to both birds and birders). There are lots of species to be seen so why not combine your passion with helping to raise money for our conservation and education programs. Our annual Birdathon fund raising event runs all through the month of May. If you wish, join with your friends and form a team. If you aren’t able to join a team, then do a little birding on your own. Solicit some pledges from your parents or children, doctor or dentist, co-workers or customers, friends or strangers. Either way, you will have fun by being outdoors and enjoying our feathered friends and your sponsors will feel good about helping a worthy cause. The event lasts the entire month of May so you can choose your 24-hour period to suit you. Just identify as many species as you can and then collect your pledges. Have fun creating the most outrageous team name, even if it is just for you. Prizes will be given out at a fun event in June for the most interesting team name, the most money collected, the most species seen. The registration and pledge form are available through our website (www.nazaudubon.com), just go there and click on the Birdathon link on the Home Page. They will also be available at our May meetings. If you can’t get them then or if you have questions, contact Brent Bitz at sedonabirds@aol.com or 928-282-5238.

May is Birdathon Month Page SpringsImportantBird Area Northern Arizona Audubon has a unique opportunity to create a Visitor Center at Page Springs Fish Hatchery. NAAS volunteers have been working very hard on this site for several years. Our partnership with AZ Game & Fish has earned us the opportunity to re-focus the existing visitor building on birds and Important Bird Areas.

With your support we can provide: * birdwalks * loaner binoculars and field guides for self-guided tours * educational displays on local birds * information on local conservation initiatives * and much more

BUT, there is no point in building a visitor center unless people are there to welcome and inform visitors! We need YOU. We will make it fun and easy to volunteer and experience the ‘warm fuzzies’ that come from seeing your work result in tangible benefits for your fellow residents. Helping connect people with nature is a great way you can give back to the adults and children of your community. Without you, this will NOT happen. NAAS has only a short time to commit to the project or walk away from a generational opportunity. We need volunteers to;

* Meet and greet for a few hours on a regular basis * Service the bird feeders * sign out loaner binoculars and field guides * lead beginner bird walks * do minor trail maintenance * monitor new native plantings * have fun in a beautiful place full of birds

Volunteers have already removed a legion of exotic vegetation and created a mile and half of walking trail around this 175 acre site bordering both sides of Oak Creek. Volunteer efforts already successfully effected the site designation as one of Arizona’s first Important Bird Areas and enabled Arizona Game and Fish to seek funding to assist our efforts. NAAS has already built a Ramada to provide shelter for birders and other visitors as we continue to develop this location as a premier birding destination and education site.

If you would like to contribute your time to help make this Visitor Center a reality, please call Karin Slavey at 928-282-9688.

White Mountain Audubon CampoutJune 18-20, 2010

at Burnt Mill Springson the A-S National Forest

Join us at 8900 feet in the White Mountains for some high elevation birding! To get the campout schedule and directions, please email or call Tom & Liz at lizntom@frontiernet.net or (928) 532-1510. You can also mail Name, Address, #no. in party, phone and email address and $20 registration fee (per car if camping, not $20 per person) to: WMAS, P.O. Box 3043, Pinetop, AZ 95035. If coming to Saturday night fireside talk only, cost is $5.00. (Donations also accepted). If you decide to attend at last minute or just want to go birding for the morning, please check in with camp hosts, Liz & Tom.

Birders, Check the Local Field Trip forum for updates, new field trips and trip reports!

Go to nazaudubon.com/sightings

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Northern Arizona Audubon Society

www.nazaudubon.comTell your friends

NAAS Directory Officers

President Zack Zdinak 928-774-4229 naas@lifedraw.com Previous Pres. Phyllis Kegley kegleyphyllis@hotmail.comVice President Karin Slavey 928-282-9688Secretary Open Treasurer Kathie Satterfield 928-522-0375 K.Satterfield@yahoo.com Directors at LargeAnita MacFarlane David Smith Brent Bitz Standing Committee Chairs and Co-chairsPrograms Phyllis Kegley

Field TripsBelow Rim Dena Greenwood naturalists@sedona.netAbove Rim Terry Blows Terence.Blows@nau.edu

PublicationsAbove Rim Terry Blows Terence.Blows@nau.eduBelow Rim Open

ConservationAbove Rim Jim Logan Below Rim Roger Radd webmaster@nazaudubon.com

EducationAbove Rim Open Below Rim Open

Membership Above Rim Open Below Rim Barbara Hirt

Development Open HospitalityAbove Rim Linda Hall, Winnie Tanney Below Rim Wilma Morrison

PublicityAbove Rim Phyllis Kegley Below Rim Open

Special Project Team LeadersWeb Site Roger Radd webmaster@nazaudubon.com

Newsletter Editor Debbie Compton weehawks@hotmail.com

Books Sales Above Rim Terry Blows Terence.Blows@nau.edu

Books Sales Below Rim Open

Historical Records Open

VVBNF Kathleen Satterfield 928-522-0375 K.Satterfield@yahoo.com

Volunteer Coordinator / OutreachKathleen Satterfield 928-522-0375 K.Satterfield@yahoo.com

Tuzigoot IBA Celia Holm

Lower Oak Creek IBA Roger Radd webmaster@nazaudubon.com

Anderson Mesa IBA Elaine Morrall

IT’S TIME TO RE-LINK If you shop at Bashas’ and have a Bashas’ Thank You Card, it’s time to re-link your card with Bashas’ fundraising program. This is a simple, painless way for you to help support Northern Arizona Audubon. With Bashas’ Shop & Give program (formerly Thanks a Million), you can link your Thank You Card to our group. You only have to do it once, and can do it at any Bashas’ checkout or service counter. The program begins September 1st and continues through March 31st of next year. With your help, we can earn up to $5000.00 from Bashas’. So go to Bashas’ now and tell them to link your card to our group identification number 28834. Tell your neighbors, family, friends, and co-workers to also link their Thank You Cards to #28834. We can earn 1 percent of the total dollars linked to our organization, up to $5000.00. WOW! This is an easy way to support Northern Arizona Audubon. Please be sure to link or re-link. Or one can re-link online at www.bashas.com/charity.php. Just follow the instructions.

Northern AZ Audubon Society - #28834

Northern Arizona Audubon Society Volunteer Opportunities

Would you like to become more involved with this Audubon chapter but aren’t sure where you’ll fit? Maybe work with existing chairs to learn the ropes under their mentorship. Here’s a list of committees that may interest you….

Programs CoordinatorThis position seeks out informative and entertaining speakers for our members meetings. We like bird talks though we’ve stretched out wings with polar bears, pollinators, wind energy and other conservation topics.

Education – Does seeing a child’s eyes light-up with joy from a new discovery make your day? We have ideas and are always interested in new ones.

Conservation – Are you passionate about conserving our natural heritage and habitats? We need folks to join both our above & below the rim conservation committees

Membership – Do you love meeting new people and making new friends? We need someone above the rim to help our membership chair – this would include greeting folks at our Flagstaff meetings and offering our membership brochures to those who attend and are not yet members.

Publicity – Are you a passionate & creative writer? Help us get the word out to the local media.

Hospitality – The promise of tasty treats is icing on the cake of our members meetings. Hospitality folks coordinate the set up before our speakers’ presentations.

Habitat RestorationFrom time to time we need folks who enjoy the satisfaction that comes from taking messy to neat. This includes picking up trash, removing exotic invasive plants, planting native plants as well as trail creation and maintenance. The areas we work on vary from Picture Canyon in Flagstaff to Page Springs, south of Sedona.

NAAS is an all volunteer organization, so if any of these jobs appeal to you and you’d like more information about them, please contact us! See the NAAS Directory for contact names, emails and phones.

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Northern Arizona Audubon SocietyPO Box 1496, Sedona, AZ 86339

BlackHawk Watch is published bi-monthly September through May, and is sent to members of the Northern Arizona Audubon Society as a membership benefit.

MAY MEETING

Guest Speaker - Sarah Reif“Owls-Messengers of Wizards and Witches –

Signs of the Underworld”

Sedona - May 19 (Wed)Sedona Public Library - 3250 White Bear Road

Flagstaff - May 20 (Thurs)Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church

Meetings start at 7:00 pm with social time.Formal meeting begins at 7:15 pm.

Everyone enjoy the summer!!!

Have fun birding!!

JOIN US!NORTHERN ARIZONA AUDUBON SOCIETY

Please enroll me/our household as a Chapter Member of Northern Arizona Audubon Society

Name: Address: City, State, ZipPhone:Email:(If you wish to be a part of the NAAS email list)Enclosed: $15 for 1 year $25 for 2 years $35 for 3 years

Please make checks payable to NAAS and mail to: Membership Chair, NAAS PO Box 1496, Sedona, AZ 86339I am interested in: ___ Volunteer opportunities

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