T-shirt sleeve
Other happenings at the RCAS
printer cartridge recycling • birdseed
sale • bird atlas
• t-shirts •
birds of Indiana
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Go to: Wildlife Resqu Haus pages
Minnetrista Garden Fair
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. . .Saturday,
June 7: 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
.........Sunday, June 8: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Be sure to visit the Minnetrista Garden Fair on June 7 and 8 at Minnetrista in Muncie. We’ll have a booth with a display of binoculars, lent to us by Jack’s Camera, and other birding and backyard tips.
For details about the Garden Fair, which will include a full weekend of shopping, tours, demonstrations, refreshments, and more, visit www.minnetrista.net.
Printer cartridges mean funds for RCAS
A little effort goes a long way: $168 raised in March alone!
PLEASE save your empty inkjet and laser
printer cartridges! We're collecting them, to be recycled, not only to
raise funds for our chapter, but also to help our Earth! Each cartridge
can be worth as much as $4.00. Carol Watkins, organizer of the recycling
project, reports that, to date, it has brought our chapter more than $500!
Bring your empty cartridges to any RCAS meeting or drop them off at the
L. L. Ball House, aka the Education Building, at Oakhurst Gardens. (It's
the yellow brick house located on the Minnetrista campus on Minnetrista
Boulevard.) You may also contact Carol at 759-8009, or contact
any RCAS Board member, to arrange a drop-off or pick-up.
Please ask your friends and associates to save their cartridges, too!
Note: No cartridges made by or for Epson Ink Jet are accepted.
Birdseed
sale returns in fall
Our
chapter birdseed sale will resume this fall, for on-site sales only at
the Minnetrista Farmers Market. Details will be announced in the September
Chat and at this website.
Proceeds go to a scholarship fund to send a local young person to Audubon Ecology Camp or be used for a youth ecology project.
In the meantime, we encourage you to buy your birdseed from Seedy Sally's, in Pendleton, where you can get high-quality seed and great service. Owner Scott Anderson (and a long-time RCAS member) provides all seed for our annual fundraiser at cost.
Seedy Sally's is located at 6869 S State Road 67 in Pendleton. Phone: 765-778-7347.
Join fellow Audubon members and other birders in the Indiana Breeding Bird Atlas project being conducted by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (IDNR). Not only do you get to look for and learn more about birds, but your observations will contribute to the conservation of wildlife in Indiana.
Volunteer field atlasers are needed to record information about every breeding species encountered within an assigned "priority block," about 10 square miles. Once a bird is found and identified, its behavior must be observed long enough to determine its breeding status. Typically, that means about 20-35 hours in the field per atlaser. Atlasers may also report rare species or confirmed breeding for any species observed outside of priority blocks.
The atlas will allow IDNR researchers to update distribution maps for all species, better manage rare species, and help identify habitat types in need of specialized conservation efforts. The data will be available to planners, wildlife managers, and others for use in environmental project reviews.
To become an atlaser or get further information, contact the following county coordinators:
- Blackford, Jay, & Madison (and Indiana Coordinator): John Castrale (jcastrale@dnr.in.gov) – 812-849-4586
- Delaware: Bill Grummer (billcarolee@comcast.net) – 765-254-1943
- Grant: Lynnanne Fager (leavesofthefall@earthlink.net)
- Henry: Steve Pancol (Spancol@aol.com)
- Randolph: Bill Buskirk (billb@earlham.edu)
Chapter t-shirts are back! Both long- and short-sleeved t-shirts, with the Robert Cooper Audubon Society logo blazoned across the back, are now available in twelve colors and five sizes.
They're made of 100% pre-shrunk cotton, and all graphics are in navy blue. (Women should be forewarned that the sleeves are sized for men and therefore might be rather long.)
The
cost is $15 for short-sleeved shirts, $17 for long-sleeved. Proceeds go
to the support of our chapter's programming and activities.
To place an order, download an order form and send it, along with your payment, to the address on the form. (Click here if you need to have the form in MS Word format.)
We need to place an order of twelve shirts at any given time before our printer will run an order. Arrangements can then be made for pick-up at a regular chapter meeting.
Birds
of IndianaThe Amos W. Butler Audubon Society has published a landmark ornithological work with Brock's Birds of Indiana, a CD-ROM of information about all 409 species of birds known to have occurred in Indiana. Each species account contains a histogram and information about historical occurrences, status and distribution in Indiana, and population trends.
The CD features the work of Dr. Kenneth Brock, author of Birds of the Indiana Dunes, and of John Cassady, one of Indiana's finest bird photographers. To see sample species entries and to purchase a CD ($20 + shipping), click here. Please note: This not an audio CD; it contains PDF files of texts and images.
