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A NOTE FROM OUR PRESIDENT
THIS FALL, CAAS WILL September is always one of the changed to make sure we are keeping
busiest months of the year for our each other safe, and it has limited our
OFFER MONTHLY family. It starts off with our wedding outreach for the year. As excited as I
anniversary on the 3rd (15 years this get seeing the amazing migrants to the
PROGRAMS VIRTUALLY! year!) and my birthday on the 4th. Lansing area, my absolute favorite
October 1 – Detroit Hives Usually Labor Day weekend is near thing is sharing the experience with
This month, hear from Timothy Paule with this time so we are able to get away others. We have been very fortunate to
Detroit Hives! Detroit Hiv es turns v acant for a little trip or visit someplace new. continue our research this year and
have had a few remarkable birds,
lots in Detroit into homes for honeybees
This year, we hung out close to home including two Golden-winged
and nativ e bee species!
and took our kiddos disc golfing at Warblers!
Burchfield Park in Holt. The time
together was great, but hopefully Since I am missing all the outreach at
travel will look a little different next the banding station, I was so happy to
year and we will book a getaway see many of your names and faces join
somewhere! us at our September meeting! We also
had a great turnout at the first bird
As September picks up speed, our walk of the year at Fenner on
kids get into the swing of school, and September 5th. All of the attendees
parent/teacher conferences are wore masks and kept social distancing
scheduled. Virtual schooling has been guidelines in mind. It was an
going really well so far and I am in absolutely perfect morning with about
absolute awe of the amazing effort of 30 species sighted, including a few
the teachers in our district and the warblers, a Baltimore Oriole and three
This meeting will be held on the Zoom adaptability of the students. These Red-breasted Nuthatch!
platform. Please visit - children have faced a lot of
https://msu.zoom.us/j/92780225507 uncertainty in the last few months, As fall continues and our winter birds
or open your Zoom app and enter and are showing how resilient, kind, come back to visit, I hope you are able
Meeting ID - 927 8022 5507 generous and understanding they are. to keep connecting with us and enjoy
Password - CAAS2020 the slower pace of the cooler weather.
At the MSBO banding station where I
Social time will take place from 7-7:15 serve as outreach and education Keep safe and stay connected!
followed by brief announcements and coordinator, our procedures have - Kristy Taylor
our speaker at 7:20pm. If you would like
to try Zoom before the meeting, please
email Kristy at caascallnote@gmail.com
to arrange a brief trial.
Join us for our Nov ember zoom meeting
on Thursday, Nov ember 5th! Meeting
details will be posted online as soon as
we hav e the details. Due to the unique
circumstances of this year, our full
schedule will be flexible and will be 1
scheduled on a month by month basis.
Our socially distanced bird walk at Fenner on Sept. 5th.
DETROIT HIVES
CAAS NEEDS YOU! This month, hear from volunteers Both being proud Detroit natives, they
with Detroit Hives! Detroit Hives is a recognized the abandoned lots in the
CAAS is seeking two Board Members 501c(3) non-profit organization city could serve a greater purpose and
ASAP. working to create sustainable combined their new knowledge with a
If you hav e considered serving on the communities and bee populations by need in the community. They bought
CAAS Board, we are looking for two transforming vacant lots into their first lot in 2017, started their first
applicants for the 2020-2021 program pollinator friendly spaces. urban bee farm, and Detroit Hives was
year. Board members help to organize born.
monthly meetings, produce our Call The idea for Detroit Hives was
Note Newsletter, pursue and educate sparked in the winter of 2016 when They’ve generated buzz with their work,
members on local birding issues and Timothy Paule discovered that local expanding to other lots, multiplying
prov ide walks and field trips throughout raw honey was able to cure a cold their number of hives and continuing
the program year. W e would lov e to that no other remedy had. After to build their colony ever since. Our
learning about the medicinal founders created Detroit Hives with the
hav e your input on programs and board
properties of honey and seeing how it purpose of bringing diversity and
decisions.
was able to provide his immune cognizance to bee awareness and
system the boost it needed, he and rebuilding inner-city communities
If you hav e any questions, please notify
partner Nicole Lindsey became introducing Detroit as the place to
the board at caascallnote@gmail.com “BEE”.
fascinated with bees. The couple
facebook.com/capitalareaaudubon learned as much as they could,
enrolling in local beekeeping classes To learn more, shop or donate, visit -
over the next few months. www.detroithives.org
Additional walks m ay be offered this fall.
Please watch for Facebook
announcem ents and our em ails.
CAAS
MEMBERSHIP
Support community programs with your
CAAS Membership. Your membership
supports programs in our community and
monthly meetings September through
June.
Your membership is more important than
ever! Clubs and non-profits across the
state are facing hard decisions this year
because funding from many sources has
been drastically reduced.
Please consider renewing your
membership as soon as possible so the
CAAS can get a clear picture of our
membership and to allow us to continue
to support local programs in line with our
EXCITING SIGHTINGS
mission.
This September many exciting sightings
SEPTEMBER 2020 - AUGUST 2021 were reported in the area!
Membership Categories - A Purple Martin was spotted on September 21
Indiv idual $15.00 in Eaton, MI by Kirby Ada ms.
Family $20.00
Contributing $30.00 - A Common Gallinule was rep orted at
Sustaining $50.00 the Inter-Urban Pathway in Haslett. (pictured)
Donor $100.00
- A G olden-winged Warbler was banded at the
Burke La ke Banding Station on Sept. 6th.
For a membership form, or to sign up
online, visit - capitalareaaudubon.org T hese sight ings wer e r eport ed on eBir d.com , or wit h t he eBir d App.
Do you have an exciting sighting t o share?
If you would like to mail your Email us at - caasCallNote@gmail.com
membership form and payment, please or share it on our facebook page - facebook.com/capitalareaaudubon 2
mail to - PO Box 22065, Lansing, MI 48909
PODCASTS FOR ALL!
ONLINE EVENTS In our last newsletter, I referenced a There's also a "Let's Ask Mike"
few of my favorite podcasts for my segment that features often hilarious
Audubon's I Saw a Bird Show commute. One of our members also observations and backyard birding
September 30, 7-8pm shared a few more recommendations tips from Mike O'Connor, the owner of
Join Audubon's v isual storytelling senior with me from the AARP. These great the Bird Watcher's General Store on
producer Christine Lin and chief network birding pro grams are now a part of Cape Cod (he's revealed the birding
officer Dav id Ringer as they welcome my listening library! If you would like items sold in his store that he doesn't
celebrities and guests to offer a fresh to share a few favorite nature related really like, for instance). A recent
look at the world of birds and podcasts, books, articles or other episode offered a fun birder's tour of
birdwatching. Prev ious guests include Dr. great media, please email us at South Florida and discussion of how
Jane Goodall, SNL's Melissa Villasenor, caascallnote@gmail.com birds keep cool in the heat.
Kenn Kaufman and climate scientist Dr.
Katherine Hayhoe. To find out more, v isit In addition to the ABA Podcast and
'Out There With the Birds’
- www.audubon.org/isawabird Bird Note which were
recommended last month, here are
Zooniverse - a few more great bird focused
Join in a great community science podcasts recommended by the
AARP, September 3, 2020 -
program right from home! Zooniv erse has
a few new projects that feature
Ray Brown's Tal kin’ Birds’
Michigan Creatures!
The Michigan ZoomIN project asks
participants to help identify animals
pictured in trail cam footage.
For more details and to help out, v isit -
zooniverse.org/projects/michiganzoomi Bird Watcher's Digest's popular birding
podcast is hosted by the magazine's
n/michigan-zoomin
editor, Dawn Hewitt, along with
publisher Wendy Clark, and their
enthusiasm about the subject is
When Ray Brown and his guests talk infectious: “Birds are a drug and I'm
birds it's like listening to the Car addicted,” says Hewitt, who always
Talk guys talk engines — they know sound thrilled to be learning from
their stuff intimately, but offer their experts or reminiscing with guests
knowledge in a relatable, entertaining about the “spark birds” that brought
way for those of us who may not be on their birding habit (Hewitt reports
able to differentiate a sparrow from a that the common grackle kicked off
starling. The weekly, interactive half- her own). The early episodes of the
hour public radio show, which has podcast, which launched in 2016, are
more than 750 episodes in the bank, also worth diving into — they're full of
always features a Mystery Bird previous hosts Bill Thompson III and
Contest, based on clues and calls of a Ben Lizdas’ discussions on random
particular species (listeners can call but entertaining subjects like seabird
in and win prizes for correct answers). guano, the ethics of owling and their
favorite beers.
Yooper W ildlife W atch asks for help
identifying the amazing wildlife caught
on camera in the Upper Peninsula of
Michigan. This project can be found at -
zooniverse.org/projects/bergq105/yoop
er-wildlife-watch
Do you have an event t o share?
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Email us at - caasCallNote@gmail.com
or share it on our Facebook page -
facebook.com/capitalareaaudubon
NEW MEXICO MIGRATORY BIRD DEATHS
ONLINE COURSES In mid September, a mass mortality
event began unfolding in New Mexico.
have been forced to migrate earlier
than normal. She shared the
Restorative Ecology : Hundreds of dead flycatchers, following -
swallows, sparrows, blackbirds,
Restoring Urban Green Spaces
bluebirds, warblers and martins were "Though we have yet to perform any
Hosted by De troit Audubon - $30
collected at various sites during the toxicology analyses or inspect their
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height of fall migration. lungs for signs of smoke inhalation, I
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think it is safe to say that these birds
ecology-restoring-urban-green-spaces- Jenna McCullough, a 3rd year PhD were starved and succumbed to
tickets-115895473481 student at the University of Mexico, hypothermia. When USFWS
reported on the data in an ABA article autopsies of other birds are reported
Explore the moral and ethical dimensions September 18th. in the coming weeks or months, we
of environmental sustainability, suspect they will reveal a similar
particularly examining how normative Following a strong storm that brought cause of death.
(e.g. "traditional") theories and snow, near hurricane force winds and
practices/actions historically hav e unseasonable record-breaking cold Our influx of migrants may or may
ignored the viewpoints of BIPOC (Black, temperatures. McCullough and her not have been due to wildfires, but I
Indigenous, people of color) colleagues spent the morning of have no doubt that they were affected
communities. September 10th picking up dead birds by the extreme cold and high winds
in the Sandina Mountains, New in New Mexico. Though the fires and
Rev . Dr. Ventra Asana is a retired pastor Mexico. They believed the deaths to be extreme weather events are
in both the United Methodist Church a somewhat normal mortality event influenced by human-induced
(UMC) and the African American expected for migratory birds until they climate change, it is unlikely that the
Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). Dr. saw reports and social media posts of wildfires alone caused the death of
Asana is an Eco-minister and Urban widespread mortalities across the thousands of birds in New Mexico."
Env ironmentalist who has created and state.
directed numerous community outreach To read her full analysis, please visit
and ecoministry programs at v arious In her review of the data she stated -
parishes in Michigan and Illinois. To learn that the large die offs were likely www.aba.org/the-data-behind-
caused by a lack of food due to the mysterious-bird-deaths-in-new-
more about Dr. Asana, please visit her
cold weather. Many of the birds may mexico/
website here: https://spiritualkinetics.com
POWDERMILL - BILATERAL GYNANDROMORPH
CALL NOTE Rector, PA - In Powdermill Bird
Banding’s nearly 60 year history,
This bird was aged as an after-
hatching-year, meaning it hatched
Published monthly we’ve caught less than ten of these last year at the earliest. Male Rose -
September through June by the extraordinary birds, the most recent breasted Grosbeaks in their non-
Capital Area Audubon Society of which was a Rose-breasted breeding plumage have black wings
PO Box 22065, Lansing MI 48909. Grosbeak that we banded today. and tail, pink “wing pits,” and often
Deadline for submissions: have pink on their breasts whereas
20th of the month. What does “bilateral gynandromorph” females have much browner wings
mean? It means that the animal is and tail and yellow wing pits.
2020-2021 CAAS Officers partly male and partly female, and in Such an exciting capture and
this case that line runs roughly down another one for the record books!
President Kristy Taylor the middle of the bird with male on
Vice President Julia Spald ing the right and female on the left (from *the previous bilateral gynandromorph
Secretary Mike Moquin banded at Powdermill was also a Rose-
the perspective of the bird, not the
Treasurer Michael Caterino breasted Grosbeak.
photograph!).
Membership Richard Yarsev ich
This was featured on their facebook
Editor & Facebook Kristy Taylor page, September 24th, 2020.
Publicity & Hospitality Sandra Conn
Field Trip Coordinator Mike Moquin
Program Coordinator Julia Spald ing
Historian Open
Website Roger Wolf
2020-21 CAAS Board of Directors
John Baumgartner
Michael Caterino
Sandra Conn
Mike Moquin
Julia Spalding
Kristy Taylor
Richard Yarsev ich 4
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