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March 6 Mtg @ 4:30Don’t Forget!
Due to construction, our regular Bird Club Monthly Meeting will be:
Day/Date: Wednesday, March 6
Time Change: 4:30 pm * New Time
Place: !! Pinckney Hall** ! ! Dance !Floor
Guest Speaker: Grant Grieder ! ! HHI Audubon
Topic:! ! Northern Gannet
** We have the large room, spacious!
The gannets are large white birds with yellowish heads; black-tipped wings; and long bills.
Northern gannets are the largest seabirds in the North Atlantic, having a wingspan of up to 2 metres (6.6 ft).
The other two gannet species occur in the temperate seas around southern Africa, southern Australia and New Zealand.
Come to the March 6 meeting, learn more and enjoy our guest, Grant Grieder.
“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you’ll see the way to fly.”! ! ! ! ! ! -- Richard Bach
Our March MeetingNew location. Different time!
Gorgeous Gannets with Grant Grieder of Hilton Head Audubon will be our topic and speaker, respectively, on Wednesday.Page 1
Grand Canyon FilmA new and important film takes you on a journey through this national treasure.Page 2
VIctory for Kids; Threat to Texas Wild Lands• Congress passed a
landmark public lands bill -- big victory for kids and public lands.
• Border Wall vs. Butterflies
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Grow Native Plants
Our Bird Club has a 3-Step Plan for your landscape that will feed your birds too.Page 4
Club Trip & Photos• Bird Club members
had a two-day adventure in the Okefenokee Swamp, and brought home fabulous photos.
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Club News and Info• Pinckney Island
NWR Shuttle Program Schedule for March and April.
• Club Officers contact information.
• Common southeastern birds -- do you know them all?
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A Monthly Newsletter Issue 2019.03 - March 2019
The Northern Gannet, a Graceful and Interesting Sea Bird
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Film makers take a moment to rest
Photographer and director Pete McBride set out to make a feature-length film in conjunction with the Grand Canyon’s centennial as a national park. The result is a transcendent work called Into the Grand Canyon, which debuted on National Geographic TV in February.
If familiarity with a landscape encourages one to advocate for its conservation, then journalists Kevin Fedarko and Pete McBride would count as two of the Grand Canyon’s most tireless advocates. Having completed a 750-mile thru-hike of the canyon—in eight stages over the course of a year—the intrepid pair has experienced more of this iconic setting than most of us ever have, or will.
One result of that adventure? A feature-length film from McBride, a National Geographic photographer as well as a writer and filmmaker. In conjunction with the Grand Canyon’s centennial as a national park, Into the Grand Canyon made its national debut on February 21, on National Geographic TV.
The film already nabbed a director’s award at the Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival and will continue to play at festivals throughout the year under the title Into the Canyon.
“The canyon’s scale is so beyond human comprehension,” says McBride, who directed the film. “That is the thing that captivates me the more time I spend there. And there’s a greater range of biodiversity than in any other national park. It’s a giant living classroom. It’s also incredibly harsh, foreboding, and humbling. The canyon respects nobody.”
In addition to showcasing the park’s transcendent beauty, the film, for which McBride shot most of the footage, effectively conveys three ever-looming environmental threats: development, air traffic, and mining. These disrupters are “symbolic of our relationship with wilderness today,” said McBride during a Q&A in Aspen, Colorado, following the film’s sold-out world premiere screening in early February. “A tug-of-war between access and loving it to death.”
Uranium mines nearby already contaminated springs and wells
Movie footage engages viewers with mind-blowing images that highlight both the canyon’s massive scale and beauty.
Other threats to the Grand Canyon
• Even though last October the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of a 20-year ban on new uranium claims near the park, the current federal administration may still attempt to lift it.
• the Havasupai Tribe and a coalition including the Grand Canyon Trust and the Sierra Club continue a legal fight against the exemption of the operating Canyon Mine, just south of the park, from this ban.
• Equally alarming may be the proposed Grand Canyon Escalade, which would bring an amusement-park vibe to what McBride calls “the most wild place in America.”
Call your Congressional Representative/Senators to preserve these national treasures.
Into the Grand Canyon - and BeyondAs the park celebrates 100 years, a new film highlights looming threats to its existence as a shrine to nature. - by Cindy Hirschfeld, Feb. 20, 2019, Sierra Magazine online
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Big Victory for Kids and Public LandsIn a major victory for the Sierra Club and its allies, today the House of Representatives followed the lead of the Senate and passed the Natural Resources Management Act, a bipartisan bill that establishes permanent reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund, continues for seven years the wildly popular Every Kid Outdoors Act, and protects more than two million acres of public land.
In a move that will get more kids outdoors and protect public lands nationwide, today the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the Natural Resources Management Act (the Senate passed the bill last week). The act is a sweeping lands protection package that establishes permanent reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund, includes the Every Kid Outdoors Act, and protects more than two million acres of public land, including the Organ Mountains–Desert Peaks, Emery County and Yellowstone Gateway, and the Methow Headwaters Withdrawal. It also creates a new national monument honoring civil rights icon Medgar Evers in Mississippi.
The Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) is America’s most successful land conservation program and benefits every state and nearly every county in the country.
Read more at: sierraclub.org “Victory for Public Lands!” by Sierra Club Media Team, February 26, 2019
Border Wall vs. ButterfliesUnder the cover of Super Bowl Sunday, the Trump administration quietly moved toward construction of a new section of border wall in Texas's Rio Grande Valley—a project that threatens protected natural areas, including a butterfly sanctuary and a state park.
Learn about the excavator that “kills every bird, snake, and bug in its path.”
On Super Bowl Sunday, when millions of Americans were watching the game, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) moved an excavator onto a flood-control levee in Mission, Texas—inside a national wildlife refuge tract between the National Butterfly Center and Bentsen–Rio Grande Valley State Park. CBP says that construction will begin in mid-February.
The excavator is armed with a mulcher attachment capable of shredding trees in a matter of seconds. The machinery will create a 150-foot “clearing zone” in preparation for wall construction. “It’s like a Roto-Rooter or Cuisinart that kills every bird, snake, and bug in its path,” said National Butterfly Center executive director Marianna Treviño-Wright. She noted that her staff had recently found and removed two baby owls from a nest they found in a wooded area marked for clearing. “They’re doing this in a horrifically violent manner.”
The machinery was transported to the national wildlife refuge tract through butterfly center property. CBP also
installed a lock on a gate that prevents sanctuary staff from accessing the center’s own property south of the levee. On Monday, the center filed a restraining order seeking to block wall construction on its property as well as to prevent the Trump administration from moving machinery across the sanctuary.
A wall at the butterfly center would cut off 70 percent of the sanctuary from public access, destroy vital wildlife habitat, and threaten the future of the entire center. “People have a choice of where they want to go and experience nature and spend their money,” Treviño-Wright said. “Why would they want to come and do it in a place that looks like a prison yard, chasing butterflies in the shadow of the border wall slats?”
On the other side of the refuge tract, where construction is slated to begin, Bentsen–Rio Grande Valley State Park is also targeted for an eventual wall.
The park is the headquarters of the World Birding Center, a network of nine birding destinations across the Rio Grande Valley, where eco-tourism is a $463-million-per-year industry. The wall through the state park would divide the visitor center from the rest of the property, including all the trails.
In a 2017 letter to CBP, Texas Parks and Wildlife director Carter Smith wrote that “construction of the proposed wall would certainly call into question whether [Texas Parks and Wildlife] could continue to safely operate the area as a state park.”
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Valuable project makes debut for gardeners and residents who love to feed our birds
The Bird Club has just launched a new project on Native Plants for Birds. With the help of Clemson University and local gardening experts, we have designed landscape plans using native trees, shrubs, and flowers that will thrive in Sun City yards. Most of these plants are readily available at local nurseries.
Go to www.suncitybirdclub.org/native-plants, and you will find four landscape designs, one each for Sun City yards with northern, southern, eastern, and western exposures. These plans make it easy for both gardeners and non-gardeners to create a bird-friendly yard filled with native plants.
Also on our website are photos and planting details for the 50 native plants specifically recommended for our yards, as well as a list of nearby nurseries and
landscapers that sell and install native plants. And there is information on hummingbird and butterfly gardening.
Native plants are very important to birds. Recent research has shown that our songbirds need a neighborhood with 70 percent native plants to successfully raise their young. Even though the cardinals, titmice, and chickadees that come to your feeders eat seeds, they must have insects to feed their babies. And most insects need native plants to survive.
Please take a minute to go through the steps at www.suncitybirdclub.org/native-plants to see how you can beautify your yard, and help birds and butterflies as well.
Thanks.
Doreen Cubie Sun City Bird Club President
Native Plants - Three Simple Steps
The Sun City Bird Club is proud to be working with Clemson University Extension and the Lowcountry Gardening SIG to promote native plants. Native plants are good for birds, butterflies, bees, and us! It is very important that at least 70% of your plants be native. Recent research has shown that suburban yards with less than 70% native plants do not provide enough food for baby birds to survive.
What are the Three Simple Steps?
Open up our Bird Club website. Find:
1. Four landscape plans featuring locally available plants (one landscape for each orientation to the sun). These are plants seldom eaten by deer.
2. See and learn about these native trees, shrubs and flowers.
3. Get the list of local landscapers and nurseries that install or sell native plants. Find even more on our website.
Our birds need native plantsClemson University and local gardening experts are helping our Club design yard plans with native trees, shrubs, and flowers that will thrive in our yards.
Our Bird Club website at “Sun City Hilton Head Bird Club” has all that you need, in 3 easy steps, to achieve success.
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A two-day Okefenokee adventureIntrepid members of the SCHH Bird Club headed off for a two-day excursion through the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Folkston, Georgia. Word is, a wild time was had by all!
At 5 PM we boarded two flat-bottomed boats for a guided tour of the refuge’s many miles of waterways. The scenery was just breathtaking, especially as we witnessed the sun setting over the swamp. The pictures here do not do justice to the bio-diversity of the area.
The morning of the second day we went for a nature walk along an amazing boardwalk that stretched deep into the swamp. Again the scenery was awesome and the views memorable. We all had a great experience. This is a trip that you may wish to take on your own. The refuge is an easy drive of about 3 hours from Bluffton. If you would like more information please let me know.
I want to thank our president and tour leader, Doreen Cubie, for organizing this adventure. I cannot wait to return to the refuge, hopefully this spring.
Noah Rosenstein
Experienced guide comes to pick up adventurers.Adventurous companions prepare to hit the water.
Great visitor’s center with gifts, bathrooms, and information.
The wild, magical Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge awaits (formerly Okefenokee Swamp).
Lucky to see a flight of Sandhill Cranes fly by.
All ready to embark.
Moody and quiet, this is a perfect place to spot birds and wildlife of many kinds.
The outfitter that provided the tour.
No fingers or toes in the water, please!
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2019 Bird Club Officers President Doreen Cubie [email protected]
843-991-1054
Vice President, Noah Rosenstein [email protected]
518-496-7301
Secretary, Anita Bagley [email protected]
843-705-7932
Treasurer, Cherry Underwood [email protected]
843-707-1599
Member-at-Large, Barry Parrish [email protected]
413-522-8371
Member-at-Large, Linda DiTommaso [email protected]
843-707-7909
Past President, Dave Davis [email protected]
843-707-7909
Volunteer Leadership Field Trip Leaders
Doreen and Jim Cubie
Christmas Bird Count Paula & Dale Smith
Blue Bird Trails Cherry Underwood, Don Vellenga
Purple Martin Trails Noah Rosenstein
Bird Nooz Editor Kathleen Leopard
Webmaster Art Hoffman
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PINCKNEY ISLAND NWR SHUTTLE NATURE TOURS -- Easy Accessibility Reservations RequiredElectric Shuttle Nature Tour: Email [email protected]• Cost: free (but donations are needed to help defray expenses)• Scheduled Shuttle Accessibility Nature Tours are listed below.• Tour Duration: hour and a half• Start Time: may vary from month to month
• March 2019 Tour Reservations Email is [email protected] • March 12 Shuttle - Tuesday, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM• March 19 Shuttle - Tuesday, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM• March 26 Shuttle - Tuesday, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
• April 2019 Tour Reservations Email is [email protected]• April 2 Shuttle - Tuesday, 12 PM - 1:30 PM• April 9 Shuttle - Tuesday, 12 PM - 1:30 PM• April 16 Shuttle - Tuesday, 12 PM - 1:30 PM • April 23 Shuttle - Tuesday, 12 PM - 1:30 PM• April 30 Shuttle - Tuesday, 12 PM - 1:30 PM
• Walking: optional around Ibis Pond
• Accessibility Tours are only booked by contacting Ilene at [email protected] The shuttle is easy to get on and off. They can pick you up at your car upon request.
• Group Reservations Required. Contact Ilene Schwartz at
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