Dear Reader,
Wow, it's cold this morning! Once again I'm at my window gazing over the ocean - lovely blue skies, puffs of clouds - from in here you'd never know it's downright brisk out there!
I'm behind, as usual, but want to share some things with you before I head out to my work at the Salmon River Grange Wildfire relief center - I've been working there 4 or 5 days a week since the outset. So grateful to our communities who are coming together to help those displaced by fire. It will be a long haul, but we're in this together!
In addition to our volunteering to help with wildfire relief, we continue to work on our ASLC priorities.
BIRD WALKS
A small group of us enjoyed the Rocky Habitat field trip from Boiler Bay to Devil's Punch Bowl.
In November, we plan to have our regular 2nd Saturday Bird Walk at the Salmon River estuary. We're not going to require pre-registration, but masks and social distancing are imperative. We will not be loaning binoculars and there will be no carpooling. Meet at Knight Park at 9am Saturday, November 14th.
Our Facebook page and groups continue to grow. Tony Valente was the winner of our My Favorite Rocky Habitat group. cover photo contest. Tony won a beautiful Protect Oregon Rocky Habitat T-shirt. You can purchase your own t-shirt online here.
ROCKY HABITAT PROJECT
Our project is moving along, we created a new web page where you can read about our project and learn how you can help. Be sure to follow the links at the bottom of the page to read about our plans at Cape Foulweather and Cape Lookout.
FOCUS ON CITIZEN SCIENCE:
Last month, we featured our Conservation program. This month, we'll talk about Citizen Science. Here are our 2020-21 citizen science goals and objectives. Goals: Provide opportunities for members and others to participate in activities to preserve birds, other wildlife, and habitats in Lincoln and Tillamook counties through community science efforts.
Objectives:
Continue to sponsor Christmas Bird Counts in both counties
Maintain Swallow boxes at Crowley Creek
Improve coordination with Portland Audubon survey & monitoring programs
Develop relationship with CoastWatch for efforts such as BioBlitzes
Work with Rocky Habitat team on outreach, projects, etc.
Maintain a list of current and future Citizen Science projects
Special projects:
Alder Island signage: Collaborate with USFW on the installation of signs about flora
& fauna at Alder Island.
Work with Devil’s Lake community and Wildflower Grill to install 6 new Wood
Duck boxes
Work on LIncoln City Osprey Project (if adopted)
We have 4 volunteers serving on our Citizen Science committee, which is lead by me, dawn villaescusa. To volunteer, please contact me at dawnv@birdlover.com
That's it for this month.
Stay safe and be well!
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dawn villaescusa, President Audubon Society of Lincoln City