Legal Action on the Pipeline

April General Meeting

Pee Wee Audubon

Thank You

Madrone Decals Available

Volunteers

PeeWee Reports

Midweek Walkabout Results

Birders Cruise the Bay

Developmental Center Open Space Trip

The Ethics of Intervention

Audubon Day at Bouverie May 17

Welcome New Members

Business Offers Membership in Audubon

Backyard Birding: Landscaping for Birds

Bad Day at Black Point

Saving the Marin-Sonoma Coast

Pee Wee Reports

Bird Rescue Center, February 7
Hi, folks. Here is a neat fact. Barn Owls like palm trees. Did you know that Barn Owls can have up to 30 babies in one season? Great Horned Owls love to eat skunks. They can't smell them. I learned all this and more at the Bird Rescue Center. It was fun!

---Arch Wilson, age 6

Spring Lake, March 1
The annual bird walk we took around Spring Lake was really great. We saw the Snowy Egret and a black swan. I learned all about different kinds of birds. I learned that a Golden Eagle's wings are eight feet across (four feet for each wing). Also, a turkey vulture eats about two to three times a week. But when it does eat it eats a lot. It eats so much that it can't take off. It sits there until it can digest the food. But if a predator comes it will vomit in the predator's face.

I also learned about the nest boxes that are being built. Audubon Society is making them for the Western Bluebird. They are being put in trees because all the old oak trees that were being used are falling down or have been cut down. The boxes are for a good cause. Starlings sometimes take over the Western Bluebird's tree nests. Although the Starling is a pretty bird it is too fat to get into the holes in the nestboxes. At the end of the of the program we were given a nestbox kit that we have to assemble. When we are finished, we go back to Spring Lake on the 29th of March and hang them up.

---Arianna Uhalde, age 8