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Fall 2006 Programs and Field Trips

(Updated 9/24/06)

Fall Migrants at Mississquoi National Wildlife Refuge

  • Date: Saturday, September 9, 2006
  • Time: 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
  • Location: Meet at the refuge headquarters' building on Tabor Rd., west off Rte. 78. We will be looking for migrating songbirds and waterfowl.
  • Trip Leader: Michele Patenaude
  • Contact: Carl Runge, 879-4490

Hawk Watch at Buck Mountain in Waltham

  • Date: September 10, 2006
  • Time: 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
  • Location: Buck Mountain
  • Joint field trip with Otter Creek Audubon
  • Meet at Colonial Deli and General Store at the junction of Routes 7 and 17.
  • Contact: Shirley Johnson, 878-4132

The Secret Life of Bats

  • Date: September 26, 2006
  • Time: 7:00 PM
  • Location: Winooski Public Library, River Level, Champlain Mill
  • A timely talk and slide presentation by Scott Darling, Wildlife Biologist for the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department. As birds flock in September, bats swarm. A bat specialist, Scott will share his research, and talk about the important ecological role bats play in maintaining a healthy environment. His program will be tailored to families, and will give us all the information we ever wanted to know about bats in Vermont!
  • Contact: Caryn Gronvold, 862-7772

Raptor Encounter

  • Date: Wednesday, October 25, 2006
  • Time: 7:00 PM
  • Speaker: Educators from Vermont Institute of Natural Science will bring a traveling team of 3 live raptors to demonstrate the types of special adaptations that make a bird a raptor. Suitable for adults and school-aged children
  • Location: Pierson Library, Shelburne
  • Contact: Caryn Gronvold, 862-7772; Shirley Johnson, 878-4132

Annual Autumn Turtle Beach Clean-up And Beach Party

  • Date: Saturday, October 28, 2006
  • Rain Date: Saturday, November 4, 2006
  • Location: Start at North Hero State Park
  • Time: 10:00 AM start. You can come after that, but be sure to get to NHSP by 12:30. We’ll probably be working until around 3:00 PM, but feel free to leave at any time.
  • Leader: State Biologist, Steve Parren, Program Coordinator of the Nongame & Natural Heritage Program of the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife. Join Steve for a workday, as he prepares two stretches of beach [NHSP, and Sandy Point (at the east, West Swanton end, of the Alburg Swanton bridge on Rte 78)] for the turtle egg-laying season next June. The endangered Spiny Softshell Turtle is Steve’s particular concern, and its nests are found on both beach sites, along with those of Map and Painted Turtles. While most hatchlings will have crawled up and out of the sand and into the lake in September, late hatching live young, still underground, are often found as we pull up this year’s plants from the cobble beach. By then the lake will be too cold, so they will be brought indoors over the winter.
  • What to Bring: You’ll probably find it a bit cold for swimwear. Bring a trowel, not a towel, and/or a hand cultivator. Bring lunch.
  • Binoculars (and bathing suits) optional.
  • Families welcome: If Steve has recovered turtle babies he will bring and talk about them.
  • Directions: Route 2 north past Carry Bay in N. Hero. Right on Lakeview Drive, just before Rt 2 swings west toward Alburg. Follow Lakeview almost to end. North Hero State Park entrance and sign on left.
  • Contact: Eric Lazarus, 658-8505 or HT@greenmountainaudubon.org

Talking Turkey

  • Date: Thursday, November 16, 2006
  • Time: 7:00 PM
  • Location: Carpenter-Carse Library, Hinesburg
  • Speaker: A talk and slide presentation by State Biologist Doug Blodgett of the Vermont Dept. of Fish and Game. Doug will help us understand the role of turkeys in Vermont. It seems that there’s more to turkey than Thanksgiving Dinner!
  • Contact: Ruth Skiff, 878-2381