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    The summary provides an overview of events and activities from the Western Cuyahoga Audubon Society from May to July 2006. It discusses the success of the first Important Bird Area monitor training session in April, which over 50 volunteers attended. It highlights upcoming events like regular meetings, an annual picnic/plant exchange, and field trips. It also summarizes a Science Olympiad event for students that included bird identification, and welcomes new members. Maps are included to help attendees locate field trip destinations in May, June and July.

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    The summary provides an overview of events and activities from the Western Cuyahoga Audubon Society from May to July 2006. It discusses the success of the first Important Bird Area monitor training session in April, which over 50 volunteers attended. It highlights upcoming events like regular meetings, an annual picnic/plant exchange, and field trips. It also summarizes a Science Olympiad event for students that included bird identification, and welcomes new members. Maps are included to help attendees locate field trip destinations in May, June and July.

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    WCAS Happenings

    MayJuly 2006

    Good presentations, good food, good


    weather and enthusiastic volunteers
    all combined to make WCASs first
    Important Bird Area monitor training session a success. Over 50 volunteers attended the April 2 event at
    RRNC which included indoor and
    outdoor activities. See insert pages
    3 and 4 for pictures and details.

    Spring and early summer have many


    of our members out birding, wildflower hunting and participating in
    some of the other events WCAS has
    going on. We hope you will join us at
    a regular meeting, our annual picnic/plant exchange, a field trip or an
    invasive plant pull. Check out all the
    information you need on the inside
    pages. Have fun!

    www.wcasohio.org

    Science Olympiad Hatches Future Birders


    On February 25, Cleveland State Univ.
    hosted a Science Olympiad for students
    in 4th through 6th grades from the
    Cleveland area. Thanks to our own
    WCAS members Nancy Howell,
    Jan Holkenborg and Dave LeGallee,
    these students were able to compete in
    the Bird Identification portion of this
    event. It had a variety of topics to challenge the students, from bird ID by
    sight, to bird ID by songs and calls.
    Bird behavior, bird anatomy and even

    how to use field guides were all part


    of the test.

    Welcome New Members


    Kathleen Bradley
    Carol & Raymond Burns
    June Cangey
    Karen Chaky
    Sally Eldermire

    Contact Us
    WESTERN CUYAHOGA
    AUDUBON SOCIETY
    4310 Bush Ave.
    Cleveland, OH 44109
    Phone: 216-741-2352
    Fax: 216-741-1879
    Email: info@wcasohio.org

    Barbara & Henry Fortlage


    George Goran
    JoAnne & Terry Gorges
    M J Lipka

    WCAS Chapter
    Newsletter

    Tom Romito, 216-741-2352


    Recording Secretary

    Published 4 times per year in

    Claudia Anders, 440-260-0351

    January, April, July, and

    Treasurer

    October by the Western

    Nancy Howell, 440-891-1710

    Cuyahoga Audubon Society

    Newsletter Editor

    www.wcasohio.org is the
    official Chapter Web Site.

    Visit our website


    www.wcasohio.org

    President

    WCAS Board Meetings held at


    6:30 pm prior to each
    program at Rocky River
    Nature Center. General public
    and WCAS members welcome.

    Kit Birch, 440-238-0153


    Webmaster
    Mary Anne Romito, 216-741-2352
    Conservation Chair
    Terri Martincic, 440-243-4536
    Directors at Large
    Liz Clingman, 440-234-7784

    May Program.Tuesday, May 2, 2006 .7:30 PM


    By carefully selecting native plants for your
    landscape and incorporating principles of ecology, you
    can create a landscape full of life and beauty.
    Dr. Nicole Cavender, Director of Restoration Ecology at
    The Wilds, will give suggestions on native plant selections for your landscape in order to attract wildlife
    such as birds and butterflies. Come and enjoy her
    program, "Ecological Landscaping: Incorporating
    Native Plants and Ecological Principles Into Your
    Landscape."

    May Field TripSunday, May 7, 7:30 PM


    Tim Krynak will lead us on our field trip to see
    spring migrants in this floodplain of the Cuyahoga
    River. We will meet at the Leonard Krieger
    Canalway Center.
    Take I-77 to the Grant St. exit. Take Grant St.
    west to E 49 St. Turn left (or South) on E 49 St
    to Whittleys Way. Turn right onto Whittleys Way
    to parking lot. Please see map for this destination
    on P. 5 of the newsletter.

    June Field Trip.Sat., June 3, 9:00 AM


    We will have a joint field trip with Western Reserve
    Land Conservancy, Firelands Chapter, to Wendtwood
    in Columbia Station. This amazing place belongs to
    Dr. Wendt, who was the vet at the Cleveland Zoo and
    raised Trumpeter Swans for release. He is now raising
    Bobwhite quail, and may still have some Nene
    (Hawaiian Geese) that he had last year.
    This land will be preserved in perpetuity with a conservation easement with both the WRLC-Firelands Chapter and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
    David Kriska will lead us around the ponds and
    through the fields and woods in this rare opportunity to
    visit this privately owned land and learn about land
    trust options. *Call Terri at 440-759-8220 to RSVP for
    this field trip; directions will be sent to participants.

    June Program...Tues., June 6, 6:00 PM

    July Field Trip...Sunday, July 2, 8:00AM

    Help us kick off the summer season by joining us at


    our original location, South Mastick Picnic Area,
    Rocky River Reservation, for our summer picnic,
    bird walk and plant exchange. Bring your own dinner; WCAS will provide the charcoal fire for cooking.
    We will follow the dinner with a bird walk along the
    river trail.

    Tom and Mary Anne Romito will lead our group as


    we try to spy Chats, Cerulean Warblers, White-eyed
    Vireos and others at Bacon Woods in Vermillion,
    Ohio. *Please refer to the map on P.5, or go to our
    web site for more detailed directions.

    Bought more plants than you can use? Have any


    leftover divided perennials? Bring them along and
    exchange them for other plantings. There is always
    a good variety and assortment. You never know
    what you'll find here! *Please refer to the map on
    P.5, or go to our web site for more detailed directions.
    Page 2

    The entrance to Bacon Woods is on the right, just


    before the camel-back bridge that crosses the
    Vermillion River. Drive
    along the outer road to the
    farthest parking lot. We will
    meet in this parking lot:

    www.wcasohio.org

    Rocky River IBA Open House Event a Great Success!


    What a great kick-off to WCASs adoption of
    the Rocky River Important Bird Area. Over
    200 visitors attended this March 5 event in
    the Rocky River Nature Center Auditorium
    featuring activities and information geared to
    explaining what WCAS is all about, and what
    we are currently up to.
    Dan Petit, Head of Natural Resources for the
    Cleveland Metroparks, gave the first power
    point presentation explaining what an IBA is
    and why it is important to our local community.
    He also described what point counts are, and
    how they supply scientific data to help protect
    habitat. Tom Romito gave two more presentations on this subject to interested audiences.

    After each presentation, the visitors were


    encouraged to circulate through the five
    stations set up and staffed by WCAS members.
    Nancy Howell ran her Forest Birds ID game
    and also explained our Shade Grown Coffee
    display. Terri Martincic was our Bird DJ at the
    bird song station. Laurie Boylan and Kit Birch
    were busy dispensing pine cone bird feeders,
    hand stamps and stickers. Diana Steel and
    Mary Jane White ran the membership/info
    station and signed up ten new chapter members! Liz Clingman kept everyone happy with
    delicious refreshments. Dave Lewis displayed
    his wonderful bird photos as well as taking
    many pictures of the event, some of which are
    shown on this page. Bill Deininger set up his
    excellent home-made video of birds to run
    throughout the event. The Medina Raptor
    Center displayed a live falcon all afternoon,
    much to the delight of everyone present.

    MAYJULY 2006

    Mary Lou Hura and Mary Anne Romito had


    fun passing out door prizes and assisting
    wherever needed. Last, but not least, our
    very own legal eagle, Pat Poole, dressed in
    an eagle costume and directed visitors our
    way.

    Everyone had a great time mixing public


    education and advocacy with fun activities
    and camaraderie, and we signed up 72 new
    volunteers for our IBA project! Our sincere
    thanks to Ken Gober and RRNC for the use
    of the auditorium, and to all the great RRNC
    staff.

    www.wcasohio.org

    Page 3

    Enthusiastic Monitors Train in Rocky River IBA


    Dan Petit explained how to record bird data on a
    special survey form at Station 3
    At Station 4, Nancy Howell had the fun job of leading a bird identification look and listen time.
    Bill Deininger helped each group learn how to estimate distances from a certain point to flags placed
    at 25 and 50+ meter distances at Station 5.
    WCAS President, Tom Romito, gave the opening
    introduction to our April 2 IBA training session, followed by a power-point presentation by Dan Petit,
    Head of Natural Resources for the Cleveland
    Metroparks. Dan stated that our main goal is: To
    accurately document the status of breeding bird
    populations in forested habitats in the Rocky River
    Valley, as well as the environmental and land-use
    practices that may affect those populations. In
    order to do this we need trained volunteers to
    monitor randomly selected points in a prescribed
    manner to generate credible, scientific data.

    At Station 6, Liz Clingman, Rich Kassouf, Pat Poole


    and Dean Murad tested participants on their distance estimation skills with 20 flags placed at various locations 25 to more than 50 meters away.

    First our dedicated volunteers went through an indoor bird identification testing and training session.
    Not too happy about being tested, they all neverthe-less survived and had a few laughs along the
    way.
    After being fortified with a delicious buffet, they
    tramped outside to do some real hands-on field
    training. Six stations were set up outside the
    Rocky River Nature Center for this purpose.

    Acting as guides and coordinators for all this were


    Mary Anne Romito, Laurie Boylan and Claudia
    Anders. Last, but not least, Dave Lewis valiantly
    hauled his heavy equipment all over the place to
    take awesome pictures documenting our event.
    WCAS thanks all the great volunteer monitors who
    came to this first training event. Those who are not
    ready to be observers now can be recorders and
    learn in the field as part of a team. They can eventually become point counters themselves, which will
    give us an ever widening pool of talent so we can
    monitor more and more points. Good job!

    Terri Martincic and Kit Birch put people through


    their paces learning how many steps they needed
    to reach both 25 and 50 meter targets in the woods
    at Station 1.
    At Station 2, Tom Romito and Don Howell got to
    show off the new Garmen GPS 60 instruments for
    use in finding the point count locations.
    Page 4

    www.wcasohio.org

    Map for July Field Trip to Bacon Woods

    Map for May Field Trip

    Map for June Picnic


    South Mastic Picnic Area #4

    Ohio and Erie Canal Reservation

    MAYJULY 2006

    www.wcasohio.org

    Page 5

    WCAS
    4310 Bush Ave
    Cleveland, OH 44109

    To find out about the Ohio Breeding Bird and/or Winter Bird Survey, see our What's New webpage. To find out about
    current environmental issues, see our Take Action webpage. Find them at www.wcasohio.org

    Chapter Supporter Application

    Weeders in the Wild

    Circle one:

    1 or 2 people

    Family

    Saturday, June 17, 2006

    Basic (includes newsletter


    and nametag)

    $20

    $35

    Sandy Ridge Reservation

    Enhanced (includes above

    $40

    $55

    Lorain County

    benefits plus WCAS patch)


    NAME
    ADDRESS
    CITY/STATE/ZIP
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    EMAIL ADDRESS

    Amount $

    Canary Reed Grass and Purple Loosestrife


    marsh and muck pull.
    Chris Grames will meet us at the nature
    center before we go through the woods to
    the marsh. If were lucky, we may see the
    Bald Eagles or Sandhill Cranes as we work.
    *Water proof knee-high boots are highly
    recommended for this work date, as we
    will go into the marsh.
    Help fight the invaders!

    Make your check payable to WCAS. Mail to Nancy Howell, treasurer,


    19340 Fowles Rd., Middleburg Hts. Ohio, 44130

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