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~ENVIRONMENTAL BUSINESSAWARDS ~

Sarasota Audubon recognizes both Carlson Studio Architecture and Beautiful Ponds with 2007Environmental Business Awards.!An increasing number of local businesses are making boldmoves and adhering to strong environmental philosophies

to keep our environmenthealthy, vibrant and diverse. Atour next monthly meeting,Sarasota Audubon wi l lrecognize two businesses that

have made great strides for thegreen teamthe winners ofour 2007 EnvironmentalBusiness Award.!

Carlson Studio Architecture, a Sarasota-basedarchitecture firm specializing in sustainable design, andBeautiful Ponds, a company creating and beautifying,pesticide and herbicide free ponds, are this years winners.Whole Foods MarketSarasota will receive a Certificateof Merit.!Carlson Studio Architecture is a regional leader in

sustainable design. The company views their buildings aspart of the greater whole system. It is built on theconcept that no living being including human beings

exists in isolation. Their building designs are evaluatedfor!first cost, life cycle cost, quality-of-life, future flexibility,efficiency; overall environmental impact; productivity andcreativity, and how the occupants will be enlivened. TheCarlson Studio Architecture offices on Fruitville Road havebeen awarded a silver LEED (Leadership in Energy andEnvironmental Design) certification. The firm is heavilyinvolved in educational efforts to promote the growth ofsustainable building practices in Sarasota and beyond.!!Beautiful Ponds specializes in the most environmentallyfriendly methods to manage ponds, wetlands and preserves.!The company! is highly invested ! in educating governmentand neighborhood association clients, convincing them toplant native and to refrain from using toxic chemicals.!Beautiful Ponds has invested many hours in pro-bono workfor the Girl Scouts of Gulf Coast Florida teaching the girlshow to restore the wetland ecosystem and documenting thebird species there.!!Many of you are familiar with Whole Foods Market, agreen grocery store that mainstreams organic foods which use no pesticides that ultimately harm ouenvironmentand local foodsrequiring much lesstransportation fuel. It sells and internally uses recycledproducts, green cleaning products and other low-impactproducts. ! The Sarasota store is also a LEED CertifiedBuilding (Silver) and was the first green grocery store in

America. Wow!! What exceptional winners!Susie Bowie, Environmental Business Award Committee Chair

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November 11, 2007 Volume VII

CELERYFIELDSUPDATE

At our February meeting, County engineer Peter Peduzzigave us an outline of the wetlands restoration that is

planned for the southerncell. That area is the oneyou see across PalmerBoulevard as you look west from the gazebo.

Eighty acres is destined tobecome a more traditional wetland and will includenative plantings such as:pickerelweed, bulrush,

saw grass, alligator flag, maidencane, Carolina ash,buttonbush and more. Plantings around the perimeter ofthe site will include slash pine, live oak, wax myrtle, sandcord grass and tarflower. When its all done, it will be awonderful addition to the Celery Fields habitat. Plants wereselected to attract nesting of Sandhill Cranes, Black-neckedStilts and Purple Gallinules.

As the County digs out the soil from the southern cell, theywill transport some to a site in Venice and some they willpile on top of the current hill, making that 85 feet high.Thats going to be some vista point. It will probably be inthe running for the highest point in south central Florida. The current Walker Parcelthat open field opposite thefarm on Raymond Roadwill be submerged under severalfeet of water. It is necessary for capturing storm water inthe area. It should be good for ducks in winter even if it is aloss for spring Bobolinks. We are working with the Countyto find alternative areas for the bobs to feed. Theyll beOK this spring, though.

Jeanne Dubi President

~MARCHCALENDAR~

Tuesday, March 4 Red Bug Slough Ken Pearlman(587-5992) will lead us on a walk through pine and oakhammocks. Meet in the parking lot of Red Bug Slough,just south of Proctor on Beneva, at 8 a.m.

Saturday, March 8 Celery Fields Explore birdlife with adifferent leader on the second Saturday of each month.Meet at the gazebo (Palmer & Raymond) at 8 a.m.Coordinator: Mark Leggett, 925-7220

Thursday, March 20 Potter Park & Stoneybrook ParkEdith Miller and Kathryn Young (924-5565) will help usfind wintering birds at these two small parks in mid-Sarasota County. Meet in the YMCA/Potter Park parkinglot in the back, off Central Sarasota Parkway at 8 a.m.

Saturday, March 29 Carlton ReserveJoin Charlie Sampleand Carolyn Edmunds of Venice Audubon, 497-6463, for rare opportunity to bird the back country of the reserveMeet in the Carlton parking lot. Jacaranda Blvd exit ofI-75; east onto Jacaranda, right onto Border Road, left athe end. Field trip is from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. CaKathryn Youngs cell phone if you get lost 612-760-1771Bring Lunch.

April 4-6: Audubon Academy, Vero Beach Workshops and seminars for chapter leaders and futurleaders.

CELERY FIELDS WALKS

Explore birdlife on the second Saturday of eachmonth, next walk is March 8th. Coordinator: MarLeggett, 925-7220.

~OUR CONDOLENCES~

To Andy Anderson and family on the passing of Dotti Anderson. Dottie was a long time member of SarasoAudubon and always gave a helping hand when needed. Shand Andy were married for 57 years. Shell be sorely missed

~ F o u n d ~

Left behind at the last meeting, a very nice Willi Smithdenim jacket. Call Jeanne Dubi at 355-1709.

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Monday, March 10. Sarasota AudubonSociety monthly meeting at 7 p.m.KENNETH MEYER -- renowned birdresearcher from the Avian Research andConservation Institute will give a

presentation on the ecology of theSwallow-tailed Kite in! Florida.


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~CELERY FIELDS CLEAN UP~

Celery Fields Clean Up Day Tuesday, March 18.Lend a hand at helping to keep Palmer Blvd free of trash.Meet at the gazebo (Palmer & Raymond) at 8a.m. It justtakes an hour or so with a good crew.

~TRIP REPORTS~

Clay Gully, Jan. 30 Thirty-two birders showed up for ourClay Gully Loop trip.! The weather was perfect for birding(sunny and mild)!and a total of 70 different species wereidentified.! Because attendance was so large, we divided intotwo sections (we accidentally got separated at the beginningbut it worked to everyones advantage with about six cars ineach group). ! !Some of the species sighted were CrestedCaracara, American Pipits, ! Pine Warblers, White-wingedDoves and!Eastern Bluebirds.! We stopped at!!the CrowleyNature Center!for lunch! where all of the participants hadgreat views of one of the pair of the resident Bald

Eagles!and!their massive nest. The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher was a no-show at the Bethel Mennonite!Church but thatgives us all a good excuse to !get out on our own thiswinter ! to relocate that sometimes elusive and sometimeseasy to find bird. Owen Comarra, Trip LeaderVenice Rookery, Manasota Scrub, Lemon BayThirteen birders braved the early morning fog to finally see46 species on what proved to be a perfect day for birding. !Sites covered on the Feb 5 trip were Venice Rookery,Manasota Scrub Preserve and Lemon Bay Park.! All agreedthat birds seemed to be down in numbers at the rookery.!Bird of the day was a most cooperative Great Horned Owl.!Other birds of particular note were Pileated Woodpeckers(2), Black and White Warbler, Pine Warblers (several) andBald Eagle.! Mark Leggett, Trip Leader

Celery Fields, Feb. 9 Forty-nine bird species were seenon a very successful Celery Fields Walk on Sat, Feb. 9.!Highlights were Sora, Bald Eagle, Northern Harrier,Eastern Meadowlark and Northern Shoveler. ! Forty-twopeople participated, and the group was broken down intothree sections led by three leaders.! Mark Leggett, Trip Leader!Station 5, Feb. 15-16 Wow what a bird trip. TheClewiston Inn was picture perfect - the food was fabulousand the birding was to die for. Most people were tickledpink to see the Greater Flamingo, over 300 FulvousDucks, Purple Swamphens, Snail Kites and the Gull-billedTern. Many thanks to Margaret England and Vince Lucas,our guides extradonaire.

Kathryn Young, Day Trip Coodinator

Cockroach Bay, Feb. 23 Twenty four birders sawover 60 species of birds at this great HillsboroughCounty reclaimed and restored area. We saw Scissortailed Flycatchers, Roseate Spoonbills, Widgeons, 1Merlin and 1 Reddish Egret dancing for food. We alsogot rare comparisons of the Royal and Caspian Ternsside by side. We had lunch surrounded by Scissor

tailed Flycatchers and not a house or development insite. Kathryn Young and Jeanne Dubi

~AUCTION~

Thanks to Karen Jensen, I was sold last night (February 11meeting) for $350! The luckywinnersErika and ChuckBaldwin. Many, many thanks to Stu Hills, Penney Rist

Carolyn Primusa n d B a r r yRossheim who

pitched in with abid. I am verygrateful to thebidders for theirdedication to thecause and forbeing willing tocough up fundsfor me and thebirds. Karen dida great job al

round, especially as an auctioneer! ! The money goes tmatch the $900 grant from Audubon of Florida to send

k i d s t o n a t u r e c a m p t h i s s u m m e rJeanne Dubi

~REMEMBERING~

We would like to hear from those of you who were active inleadership roles in past years. It would be sad to lose thehistory of the members that made Sarasota Audubon whait is today. So, if you were a board member, trip leader, ortook any other active role, please take a few minutes to jotdown what you did and when. Send it to us at the postoffice address on the back of this newsletter. Well make

sure that what you did is recorded for posterity.!~BIRD SURVEYS~

Sarasota Audubon is embarking upon monthly bird surveysat two local parks. If you would like to participate in thesesurveys, please contact coordinators Lynn Jakubowicz([email protected]) for Red Bug Slough and RickGreenspun ([email protected]) for North Lido. Thesurveys will be for one year. You dont have to go everymonth; help as much as you can. The purpose of the


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urveys is to monitor bird populations (species and numbers)with a view to publishing a bird checklist for the parks onehalf of Sarasota County. Also, data gathered will help the

County to manage the parks more effectively for birds andwildlife.

SARASOTA AUDUBON ANDMANGROVE COAST FLY FISHERS

JOIN FORCES TO MONITORSEAGRASS!

Braving 75-degree weather, members of the Mangrove CoastFly Fishers and the Sarasota Audubon Society met on aaturday afternoon for training on this winters seagrass

monitoring projectthe clubs first joint environmentalroject.

Larry Bowie, Dale Neuman, Sarah King, and Rick Geenspunwere joined by a dozen or so members of the MangroveCoast Fly Fishers (including its president, Bob Parker) at

Ken Thompson Park on City Island. Under the shade of aovered picnic area, Amanda Dominguez, Sarasota Countyseader on the project, taught us how to identify our threenative seagrasses and showed us the ins and outs of fieldmonitoring.

m always somewhat surprisedand gratifiedat howquickly volunteers become interested in something as

bscure to most of us as seagrass. Rick said it best:Seagrasses are like the canary in the coal mine. Theyre aarometer for whats going on in our bays.

Two weeks later, Rick and I paddled a canoe around the

Neville Preserve on a windy morning. In two and a halfhours we saw lots of healthy seagrass (albeit just one species,hoal grass), plenty of algal gunk, basins of drift algae, andots of birds, including a reddish egret and juvenile baldagles. The two roseate spoonbills I saw here last year chose

not to appear. It was a great morning to be outside.

Mangrove Coast Fly Fishers extends our warmest thanks toarasota Audubon for joining us on this project. We hope itshe beginning of a beautiful relationship.!

Joe Polidoro

NOMINATING COMMITTEE

Barbara Singer has agreed to be the Nominating CommitteeChair again this year. If you would like to run for any of theExecutive Committee positions or know of anyone whowould like to run, please let Barbara know: 504-0228.

Positions open are President, First VP, Second VP, Treasurernd Secretary. The term is for one year, June 1, 2008 to May1, 2009.

GREEN TIP OF THE MONTH

Want to Keep our roadways, beaches and waterwaysclean for current and future generations? Join Sarasotacountys new campaign to eliminate cigarette litter.Cigarette butts are the worlds largest environmentallitter problem. Tons of them clog our storm-waterdrains and pollute our beaches and bays and most

comes from cars on the road. If you see someone tossa cigarette butt from an automobile, call 365-TAGS toreport. Also note the vehicle tag # and description, thetime, date, location and what was seen - local lawenforcement will take it from there.

GREEN TIP #2

Use compact fluorescent light bulbs instead ofincandescent bulbs. The compact fluorescent bulbshave made many improvements. They are smaller,brighter and have more sizes and types available. Allwill last from 7-9 years.

Julie Byrne, Audubon Special Projects

NEW FACT SHEET ON POPULATIONAND GLOBAL WARMING FROMNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY

The pollution that causes global warming has been drivenlargely by growing consumption of fossil fuels in theindustrialized world. But in looking to the future, thegrowth ... of the world's population will be a critical factor,

as well.

Audubon has joined with colleagues in the conservation andinternational development community to explore andhighlight the connections between population and globalwarming. In a new fact sheet, we outline how human rights-based policies that promote slower population growth canand should be part of a comprehensive strategy to addressglobal warming. Get More Info: Download the new factsheet http://audubonaction.org/ct/51xE_E51vX1s/factsheet

All photos for this newsletter were taken by Rick Greenspun ofSarasota Audubon. First page photo is of a Bald Eagle, secondpage photo is a Northern Pintail, and the last photo is a RoseateSpoonbill flying.


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