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Winnebago Audubon Society Mission Statement: Advance the mission of the National Audubon Societyto conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit ofhumanity and the earth’s biological diversity through grassroots efforts of community outreach and advocacy.
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Mail this form with payment to:Pat Nichols, Membership ChairP.O. Box 184, Oshkosh, WI 54903
OFFICERSPresident: Janet Wissink 920-589-2602 / [email protected]
Vice President: Pat Nichols 920-426-0261 / [email protected]
Secretary: Zaiga Freivalds 920-233-5914 / [email protected]
Treasurer: Dave Moon 920-235-4429 / [email protected]
DIRECTORSDave Hanke 920-688-2907Carla Hansen 920-233-1129 / [email protected] Meuret 920-426-1656 / [email protected] Underwood 920-426-0349 / [email protected]
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TEMPORARILY AWAY? Please notify us of your address change. The post office will notforward your newsletter and we pay for the returned newsletter. Contact Pat Nichols with anyquestions regarding your subscription: jvnichols@earthlink or 920-426-0261.
2008 BIRDATHON A SUCCESS! $985.70 raised, 96 birds seen, 9 dedicated birdwatchers,and 40 generous contributors all add up to a successfulcampaign to raise money for our programs and field trips. There is still time to put the Winnebago Audubon 2008Birdathon over the top. Help us reach $1000.00 incontributions. Send your pledge of any amount to WinnebagoAudubon, c/o Carla Hansen, 4556 Island View Dr., Oshkosh,WI 54901. I’ll send you a list of the birds we saw. Thanks to our field volunteers: Carla Hansen, JacksonMedley, Carmen Meuret, Evelyn Meuret, Janet Moldenhauer,Brenda Reese, Gil & Sharon Roderick, and Janet Wissinkwho saw all those wonderful birds. Thanks to our generous contributors: Chris Binder, Mark& Karen Burns, John & Susan Schuttenhelm, Carl & KathyChapman, Alan & Terri Fuller, Charles Beyer, Don Meton,Ruth Heinen, Doris Thomas, Gil Roderick, Dave Moon, PatNichols, Evelyn Meuret, Janet Wissink, Jack & Cathy Kaspar,Bruce & Sue Hansen, Dave Hodge, UWO Credit Union, JanMoldenhauer, Richard Hansen, Kimberly Clark Corporation,Carla Hansen, Susie Gustke, Leanne Monroe, KeenanTimm, Al Acherman, Terri Schumacher, Paulette Feld, JulieLemanski, Mary Hale, Susan Raasch, Nancy Norris, CarolSmith, Kathy Schulze, Pam Spaulding, Jerry & AnitaCarpenter, Matt Nelson.
SEPTEMBER 2008 All programs and activities are open to the public VOL. 29, NO. 3
P.O. Box 184, Oshkosh, WI 54903 l Published eight times a yearEditor: Janet Wissink, 7035 Mountain Rd., Pickett, WI 54964 l 920-589-2602 l [email protected]
Check our website for up-to-date information: www.winaudubon.org
Catch and Tag aMigrating Monarch!
1:00 p.m.Saturday, September 6
(Raindate: Sunday, September 7) Area children, parents and others can participate in the autumn migrationof monarch butterflies on Saturday, September 6, 2008 from 1:00 pm to 3:00pm. Field trip participants will first meet at the Pickett Community Center for ashort orientation and a demonstration of the tagging process. Thenparticipants will drive to a local field to net monarchs and attach numbered tags to their wings as part of a nationwideresearch project by the University of Kansas. Two of the 153 monarchs that we tagged last year were recovered in El Rosario, Mexico! That’s a 1,800 mile trip! This event is suitable for children 4 years and up. We recommend that children wear long pants, shoes andsocks. It is free to Winnebago Audubon members. The non-member fee is $5 per adult and $3 per child 17 years andunder. Pre-registration is not required. Non-members may join at the event. Butterfly nets will be available.
The Pickett Community Center is located 9 miles southwest of Oshkosh at 6687 State Rd. 44 in Pickett on thesouth side of the road just past the Co-op.
For more information contact Janet Wissink, (920) 589-2602 or [email protected].
Bat ProgramCANCELLED !!!The bat program withbat expert Sue Saari,
scheduled for August 21,was cancelled
because Sue had an accidentthat shattered her ankle.
We will reschedulethis program for next year.
Long-time Audubon MemberTo Receive Environmental Award
from Sierra ClubJan Moldenhauer is this year’s recipient of the 2008 Fox Valley Sierra
Group’s Environmental Award. She will be presented the well-deservedaward on Thursday, September 11 at the Sierra Club’s 7:00 pm meeting at
Bubolz Nature Preserve, 4815 N. Lynndale Dr., Appleton.This meeting is open to the public. Please join me in congratulating Jan. She
has been of a long-member of our Audubon chapter and served on ourboard for many years. We appreciate her energy and dedication to
preserving a healthy environment for years to come.
The Prairies of the Wiouwash Trail: Saturday, September 27, 9:00 am. Have you every walked or biked along this trail andnoticed the lovely flowers blooming and tall grasses waving in the breeze? Enjoy a beautiful fall morning on the trail with us and learn about theremnant prairies in the three State Natural Areas along the Wiouwash Trail north of Oshkosh. More details to follow.
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A Kid s Eye-View by Carmen Meuret
Some of you may know who John James Audubon isand maybe even Roger Tory Peterson. Well, if you don’t,they are two of the many great contributors to the birdingworld. Roger Tory Peterson and Audubon are two of mythree idols. These two wonderful men have done much tohelp our bird society and well, the only way Roger ToryPeterson got interested in birding was because of theAudubon Society. I recently finished reading the book “The Race to Savethe Lord God Bird,” which is about the Ivory-billedWoodpecker. I highly recommend this book for any agebirder. Anyway, this book tells how the Audubon Societyfirst started. Here is what they did for kids of any age. The time is 1870–1920, the plume war in the UnitedStates. The plume war was when great egrets, snowyegrets and herons were illegally poached for their plumes:the long, sleek and gentle feathers that appear duringbreeding. These feathers were used to decoratewomen’s hats all over the United States and the world. During that time, kids from every state were saving updimes to purchase a kit that would help them learn to bird,draw birds and save birds. Roger Tory Peterson was oneof those kids. His seventh-grade teacher had encouragedher class to join a Junior Audubon Club. At first he thought he had wasted his allowance. But,one day at school, while drawing a blue jay, he realizedhe hadn’t. That kit made Roger a bird lover. It made himso much of one that he wrote and illustrated the first fieldguide published, “A Field Guide to Birds East of theRockies.” Now, Roger Tory Peterson lies in American’shearts as a beloved birder. I hope that this article makes you realize that birdstruly need your help today. If you are interested inhelping birds, learn to bird and learn as much as you canabout birds. If you have any bird questions, I’ll be happyto help. Happy birding!!(Carmen is a sixth grader at Webster Stanley Middle School.)
SULLIVAN S WOODS and Friends In the “good old days”, early 70’s perhaps, Oshkoshfourth and fifth grade classes began using Sullivan’sWoods, 40 acres of unused farmland west of Fisk. Busesdropped off (and then left) the kids, teachers and anystalwart parents at Utica School. It was a mile walk to theWoods where there were no porta-potties, shelters orLeopold benches and only minimal trails. At lunch time,they all walked back (one mile) to Utica School for theirlunches and relief breaks; going back the mile to eat andcontinue their day in the outdoors. And, of course, themile back to catch the bus later in the afternoon. What aday, eh? I’ve met parents and teachers who rememberthose excursions. And tell tales of first aid dilemmas andthunder storms. No bus, no cell phones. In 1986 some unidentified teacher was reported asking“what is there to do at Sullivan’s Woods?”. For those ofyou who knew Katherine Rill, you can imagine her horrorat those words. So Katherine and several other Audubonmembers including Louise Coumbe and Jan Scalponedecided to set that teacher straight. An enthusiasticgroup began identifying plants, trees, animals, habitatsand all the other amazing things out there. Over timethey wrote, prepared and rewrote signs, developed a trailsystem and found organizations to help. Boys Scouts,Kiwanis, Audubon and others cleared paths, built boardwalks, erected signs. Wild Ones planted woodlandflowers, Audubon planted a prairie. Trail guides and avideo of the Woods were developed. But there were still teachers who brought volleyballnets and baseball equipment and seemed unsure of whatto do. Thanks to a not so “retiring teacher”, LouiseCoumbe, Friends of Sullivan’s Woods was organized asan ad hoc committee of Winnebago Audubon around1994. Now there is a small group of Friends whovolunteer to help each of the 20 school groups that go outin May and September. Some of us like to be “walkingfield guides” trooping kids around the three miles of trails.Others like to teach orienteering or binocular use orsupport the teacher’s individual nature education plans. I haven’t seen a volleyball net in over 10 years; almostalways the kids are prepared and ready to go. “When dowe see the lightning tree” is usually their first question.This spring, a little girl told me that both her brothers hadbeen on the Woods field trip and told her it would be thebest one she ever had. Last year a fifth grader said thather grandmother made tea from nettle and had explainedhow in Laos they dipped water from streams like EightMile Creek which borders the Woods. When I decried thedestruction of a bottle gentian two fifth graders drew mepictures of them as a thank you for our walk. As the teachers have gotten more interested in theWoods and how to work it into the environmentalcurriculum and as the kids are prepared and eager, thelittle bank of Friends has matured, too. Yeah we’ve notgotten any younger. Each year one or two retiredteachers do come on board, but Friends of Sullivan’sWoods could use more enthusiasts. It is really a gun gig,9 a.m. to about 1:30 p.m., one day or more in the springand fall. Join us. Call Louise 920-231-4722. Submitted byJeanne Shiras, long time Audubon Friend and volunteer.
On June 28 in Ripon, weaccompanied Dr. MemunaKhan on the bluebird trailshe monitors for the Blue-bird Restoration Associa-tion of Wisconsin.She alsorecords and collects datafor her own research. Dr.Kent Hall, who tallies allof the Wisconsin monitors,was also with us. We werethrilled to see and holdbaby bluebirds, view bluebird nests with eggs andobserve Memuna weigh,measure, band, and re-cord various data at eachbox. We are planning tosponsor a nest box trail atLake Breeze Golf Coursein Winneconne. Look formore information to comeon that project.
Audubon Adventures in the Classroom Winnebago Audubon sponsors or finds sponsors for all fourth and fifth grade classrooms in the Oshkosh schools andthe surrounding area that wish to use the Audubon Adventure program from the National Audubon Society. Theprogram is described on the Audubon website as follows:
“AUDUBON ADVENTURES is an environmental education program for children in grades 4 to 5. Developed byprofessional environmental educators, AUDUBON ADVENTURES presents basic, scientifically accurate facts aboutbirds, wildlife, and their habitats. It comes packaged as a Classroom Kit (serving 32 students). Audubon Adventuresintroduce young people, their families, and their teachers, to the fundamental principles by which the natural worldfunctions. Our publications for students and teachers give readers compelling examples and activities that show thoseprinciples at work. When we achieve our goals, our readers have the foundation necessary for recognizing ourindividual and collective responsibility for the health of our environment. And out of that recognition comesunderstanding that personal actions can have meaningful, positive, and far-reaching effects.” You can read more about it at: http://www.audubon.org/educate/aa/in-school.html Teachers at the following schools have signed up to receive Audubon Adventures for the 2008-2009 school year.Carl Traeger Elementary, Franklin, Green Meadow(2), Jacob Shapiro, Jefferson(2), Lincoln, Oaklawn, Oakwood(2),Read, Smith, Webster Stanley(2). Teachers will receive a packet of materials including newsletters for the students anda classroom resource manual for the teacher. Do you know a teacher that might want to use these materials in their classroom? If you will let me know the name ofthe teacher and the school where they teach, I will contact them. Would you like to sponsor a classroom? The cost is $46.00. You can choose the school you would like to sponsor orwe will pick one for you. Contact Carla Hansen at 920-233-1129.
Monarch Passion My name is Robbie Malliet and I am 7 years old. My passionis monarch butterflies. There is nothing better than holding abrand new monarch as it dries its wings in my hand, flapping,turning, and kissing my fingers. Then just before its maidenflight, it tinkles in my hand and gives me one last finger kiss: “up,up beautiful orange and black miracle, away to Mexico. Be safeand happy.” Around the first week of August this year, I told my mom anddad it was time because I had seen milkweed along the side ofthe road. Some were already tall; some just short and bushy.Milkweed is caviar for monarch caterpillars. I have watchedthem devour large leaves; tiny caterpillars growing into big fatones. So off we went for a drive. Large plastic jars bounced in theback seat as we drove over bumps and holes down the countryroads near my house in Winneconne. “Stop”, I yelled from theback seat, “there’s a great big patch of milkweed.” Out of thecar we jumped with our jars in hand, slipping down the ditch andup the other side. “Shoot, there’s none here”, I said with a greatsigh. Back in the car, buckled up, frowning. Thirty or forty feet upthe road, again I yelled, “Stop!” And out of the car once more.Maybe it was too soon to find my tubular friends. My face waslong and I just did not understand. So much to eat, they justhave to be here. We stopped four or five more times on thenorth/south roads without a caterpillar in sight. “Go the other way,” I told my dad. “Left or right?” he asked atthe stop sign. “Left”, I said, “there’s milkweed over there.”Stopping once again, grabbing our gear, trudging through theweeds, we finally reach the patch. Birds and grasshoppersscattered with each step we took. “Got one”, I screamed out.There he was, on the underside of the leaf. He was anawesome striped wonder with black, white and yellowish greenstrips. “You’re coming home with me,” I said as I gently lifted himinto his protective new home. This was our first little guy whowouldn’t be lunch for a swallow or other critter of the ditch. We ended our day with 10 new friends that I could raise and
love and help to getto Mexico. Funnyhow only the east/west roads held ourtreasures and not thenorth/south. Maybeit’s the way the sunshines long in theday and trees shadethe milkweed in thevery late afternoon. I currently have 5large containers on our kitchen counter and a Tupperware full ofmilkweed in the fridge. They are very hungry and eat a lot.Because they eat so much, you know what else they do a lot of.We dump that our every day and put fresh leaves in. Then wewait and watch. “Mom, mom, he’s hanging in a J”. It’s a wonder to watchthem do this as they wriggle around turning greener andgreener; then it suddenly happens. Like an ooze they are slowlywrapped in a blanket that seems to ever so slowly cover themup and then they curl up like I do on a chilly night so just myhead is sticking out of the covers. Suddenly all of thecaterpillar’s body and head is inside the silky green chrysalis.There’s a little golden zipper-like line toward the top and littlegold specks on the side. I wish I had a sleeping bag like that. And now we wait, and wait. When will it happen? Days anddays go by, ever so long. I sit each day and watch; almost everyday there is a new chrysalis. What could they be doing insidethose really cool sleeping bags of theirs? Then finally, almost two weeks later, it happens. The once stilland motionless chrysalis begins to move and crack, darken anddry. “Oh, mom, come quick. Here he comes!” My mouth is openwide and I’m grinning from ear to ear. I can’t wait to hold him,and feel those little finger kisses once again. Wet my palm andflap your wings. Mexico is far away but I know you will make it.Catch the breeze and head southwest. I’ll throw you a kiss andsay goodbye. You are my passion! - Submitted by Sharon(mom) Malliet
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