From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sat May 8 22:53:53 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i495pZV0018389 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 8 May 2004 22:51:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.inreach.com (smtp.inreach.com [209.142.2.34]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id i495oPD6018346 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 8 May 2004 22:50:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 4624 invoked from network); 9 May 2004 05:50:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?209.209.18.102?) (209.209.18.102) by smtp.inreach.com with SMTP; 9 May 2004 05:50:24 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: [[email protected]] Message-Id: Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 22:47:34 -0700 To: [[email protected]] From: Ruth Troetschler <[[email protected]]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] Information about birding weekend X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5b1 Precedence: list List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Errors-To: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] -Original Message----- From: Karen DeMello [mailto:[[email protected]]] Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 6:48 AM To: [[email protected]]; [[email protected]]; [[email protected]] Subject: Big Basin Birding Weekend May 21-23 Hello, I am a member of Sequoia Audubon and also a volunteer at Big Basin Redwoods State Park. Wings Over the Basin 2004 is just a couple of weeks away. Ahhhh, spring in the redwoods learning about birds! It should be a wonderful weekend as we listen to the Winter Wrens. For this bird weekend we have the privilege of having a group campsite for birders, and there are still some camping spots available. Could you help spread the word? I'd be very grateful if you could forward this to birders that may be interested in camping or visiting Big Basin, or if you could mention it at the general meeting next week. Thank you very much, Karen DeMello Big Basin Redwoods State Park invites birders to Wings Over the Basin 2004 May 21 - 23 Several field trips and an evening campfire presentation will focus on the park's varied birdlife at the height of the nesting season. Come enjoy spring in the Santa Cruz Mountains! This weekend is co-sponsored by California State Parks and the Mountain Parks Foundation. All events are free, and birders are welcome to attend any or all of the activities. See below for the list of scheduled activities. There is a day use fee of $5.00 per car. A group campsite will be specially reserved for this event. Weekend package for Friday and Saturday evenings: $10/person donation. Space is limited. To reserve your spot(s), contact Big Basin docent Karen DeMello at [[email protected]]. Karen will reply with further information within 24 hours (if you don't hear back, then e-mail is acting up so call her at work: 408-523-4559). Whether you are a beginner birder or an experienced birder, and whether you camp at the park or drive in for the day, you are cordially invited to this 3rd annual weekend for the birds at Big Basin Redwoods State Park. Wings Over the Basin 2004 ~ Scheduled Activities FRI., May 21, 7:30 PM - Evening Stroll for Campers. Walk quietly with docent Karen DeMello as dusk turns to darkness. Might we glimpse a crepuscular critter? Might we hear the hoot of an owl? (Whoooooo knows...) Meet at the Group Camp and bring a flashlight. (2 hours) SAT., May 22, 7:00 AM - Birds of Big Basin, with Garth Harwood. Seek some of the hard-to-find specialty birds of Big Basin's redwood forest and other habitats. Come prepared to hike or drive; we may venture to other parts of the park. Meet at Opal Creek Picnic area near the new restroom building: from Park Headquarters, go past the entrance kiosk, veer right past the store, and continue 0.25 mile to Opal Creek Picnic area. Wear good walking shoes, and bring plenty of water and snacks. (4.5 hrs) SAT., May 22, 2:00 PM - Big Basin Corvid Management Plan. A talk given by Sara Godfrey, State Park Resource Ecology Staff. Meet at Old Lodge. (1 hour) SAT., May 22, 5:30 PM - Potluck Dinner for Campers at the Group Camp. This optional food-fest has become an eagerly awaited tradition! Bring a dish to share. SAT., May 22, 8:30 PM - Campfire program: Getting to Know the Redwood Forest Birds presentation by Garth Harwood. Seeing birds is just part of the fun. We'll look at what they eat, quirks of their behavior, and other fun facts about the birds you can see in and around the park. Meet at the Campfire Center near Park Headquarters. SUN., May 23, 5:15 AM - Marbled Murrelets in the Morning, with Jan Hintermeister. Dawn is the time to listen and look for this remarkable bird as it circles over the old growth forest nesting area before heading out to sea. Learn why this robin-sized seabird is so special to Big Basin. Meet at Park Headquarters at 5:15 AM sharp. (1-1/4 hours) SUN., May 23, 7:00 AM - Birding the Redwood Forest by Ear with Todd Newberry. Such tall trees, such deep shadows, but your ears hear birds your eyes can't see. We will "stop, look, and listen" to the bird sounds all around us. We will learn how to listen, how to hear, and will try to learn a half-dozen species out of the many we will hear. And we will try to make sense of what these birds are up to when they sing. We will start by listening to a few birdsongs at various playback speeds to sense what is "inside" them -- inaudible to us but important to the birds themselves (Otherwise, why would they sing so complexly?). Meet at Park Headquarters at 7 AM. (3 hours) About Our Featherless Leaders Garth Harwood is a naturalist and teacher at Hidden Villa Farm in Los Altos Hills who finds opportunities to do "stealth birding" by ear while leading kidson nature walks several days a week. A lifelong resident of the Santa Cruz Mountains area, Garth spent part of his childhood among the elephant seals as a next-door neighbor to Ano Nuevo State Park, not far from Big Basin. His natural history interests range widely, but have focused on birds since serving as manager at the Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society office in the late 1990's. He maintains more than 70 nestboxes for native birds in local parklands as well. Jan Hintermeister, a Silicon Valley engineer and resident of Santa Clara, has been an avid birder for nearly 20 years. He banded hawks with the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory for 8 years during the 1990's. At present he is very involved with the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory, serving as SFBBO's current board president, monitoring Great Blue Heron colonies in San Jose, and monitoring Snowy Plover sites near the bay. Recently he organized coworkers in making and installing owl silhouettes to discourage Cedar Waxwings from colliding into windows at work. He enjoys the outdoors if it is not too hot out. Todd Newberry is professor emeritus of biology at UCSC. He studies clonal organisms, of which there are zillions, including trees, and especially those "zoophyte" marine animals that form colonies with plant-like appearances -- corals, hydroids, sea squirts and other such unhuggables. As they grow, how do their intimate environments help mold their shapes? Alas, he has come up with few answers to this question or, for that matter, to most other tough questions about life. Perhaps this explains why he has been such an ardent birder since his New Jersey boyhood. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. south-bay-birds mailing list ([[email protected]]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://www.plaidworks.com/mailman/options/south-bay-birds/south-bay-birds-archive%40plaidworks.com This email sent to [[email protected]]