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4th Grade Bird Artists
Chautauqua Elementary School Fourth Graders created bird portraits as part of the Auduboon Birding Program.
Their artwork will be featured during May at Wings Birdseed Company, Little House, Heron's Nest and Vashon Bookshop.
Gallery Cruise is Friday May 4.
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Vashon-Maury Island Audubon Program
The Perfect Storm, Harmful Algae, Migrating Seabirds, and Warming Seas with Julia Parrish
Thursday, May 17 at 7:00 PM
Vashon Maury Island Land Trust building
Contact: Ann Spiers, Program Chair, 463-9858
The Program is FREE and all are welcome.
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Enjoyment of Birds Class
Blasted out of Bed by Birds in June?!?
A cacophony, symphony or biophony? Tis’ the season for birding by ear as all those migratory songbirds arrive from the tropics and add their diversity of songs and calls to the soundscape.
Two Classes: Wednesday, June 6 & 20
Field Trip: Saturday, June 9
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4th Grade Field Trip to KVI Beach
On Friday, March 23 Audubon birders and Vashon Beach Natutralists accompanied 85 4th graders to KVI Beach to view birds and learn about marine life in the estuary.
PHOTOS BY LARRY HUGGINS
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Cornell Features Vashon's 4th Grade Birding Program
Chautauqua Elementary School Fourth Grade Birding Program has been teaching students about the birds of Vashon-Maury since 1990. With community help from Vashon-Maury Island Audubon Society, Vashon Artists in Schools, and Partners in Education, students enjoy a six-week curriculum unit that integrates reading, writing, science and art. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is currently featuring the program on their website. Greeting cards featuring the students' bird artwork are available at Wings Birdseed Co. on Vashon.
Cornell's website
More About the 4th Grade Birding Program
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Birding Trail’s Puget Loop Including Vashon Is Here
The newest map of the Great Washington State Birding Trail: the Puget Loop is now available. This signature route features 220 of our 346 annually recorded bird species around Puget Sound from Seattle to Mt. Rainier, plus Lake Washington, Kitsap Peninsula; and Vashon, Bainbridge, Whidbey and San Juan islands. Travel by car, bus or ferry, or bike or paddle to the Puget Loop’s 42 main sites and 18 “more birding” locations.
Now available at Audubon Programs, at Wings Birdseed, and for free by donating to Vashon Audubon.
Contact Audubon President Randy Smith for details about donating and ordering the map from our local chapter.
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Rich Siegrist has spent years providing nesting sites
for Vashon’s purple martins
Vashon’s local purple martin hero is Islander Rich Siegrist, who for 17 years has volunteered as “landlord” of the martins’ nesting boxes and gourds that hang on the dock pilings that circle Vashon and Maury.
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Vashon Audubon on FaceBook
Our chapter information is now available on FaceBook. Click the logo to 'Like' Vashon Audubon and receive updates via FaceBook.
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Vashon Audubon needs your help!
There are several volunteer opportunities available with Vashon-Maury Island Audubon. Please consider offering your time.
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The Enjoyment of Birds
Vashon Audubon offers an updated series of five separate programs to help you enjoy the birds, inside and outside, through Fall, Winter and Spring.
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Island Wings Newsletter
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Strawberry Festival Parade
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Audubon Celebrates 20 Years
1989 was the year the Exxon Valdez dumped 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound. But on the hopeful side, and not just coincidentally, it was also the year a new Audubon chapter started on Vashon-Maury Island.
Our founder Emma Amiad says:
“The birding that gives me the most pleasure is the birding I do right here on the Island and mostly on my own property. That is the gift to me from our local Audubon Chapter and the people who make it up.”
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Recycle Used Binoculars for Kids
Do you happen to have an extra pair of pocket-sized, or beginner's binoculars laying around the house that you're not using anymore? If so, Edmonds Discovery Programs would love to get those out of your way! We have several educational programs for schools and daycamps during the spring, summer and fall that require the use of binoculars. With a limited budget we're not able to purchase enough to replace the worn out ones we've been using for the past several years, so we'd be most happy to receive some donated pairs.
If you can help, please call Sally Lider, Edmonds Parks & Recreation, 425-771-0227, or e-mail lider@ci.edmonds.wa.us.
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Advertisers who support Vashon-Maury Island Audubon Society
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Ed Swan Bird Watching Tours
Ed Swan provides natural history wildlife tours that offer the opportunity to see and hear a great variety of bird species. Gorgeous views of brilliant Wood Ducks, magnificent Bald Eagles, great numbers of waterfowl and many kinds of woodpeckers, sparrows and finches are too be expected with any birding tours on Vashon.
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Trogon Tours
Wildlife photographer and Tahoma Audubon member Nate Chappell leads exciting birdwatching and photography tours to Ecuador and bird photography workshops in Arizona.
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Cheesemans' Ecology Safaris
Our voyage to the great Southern Ocean has come to be well known as the most in-depth way to see this incredible environment and, most especially, its tremendous seabirds and other wildlife.
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