PRAS MAY VIRTUAL PROGRAM – 5/18/21 – “Owls – The Silent Hunters”

May Virtual Program – May 18th – Owls

Please join the Peace River Audubon Society at 7 PM on 5/18/21 for a presentation by Reinier Munguia on ‘Owls-The Silent Hunters’. Reinier is a renowned photo naturist, past President of the Lake Region Audubon Society and the Eagle Watch Volunteer Coordinator. There will be some brief ‘housekeeping items’ discussed before the presentation as well. Thanks, Mike Krzyzkowski Acting President, Peace River Audubon Society Mike Krzyzkowski is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: PRAS-Owls–the Silent Hunters Time: May 18, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89997764902?pwd=cXEvZ3ZDTGtzTEx2NFRFQ3RQSGdUdz09

Meeting ID: 899 9776 4902 Passcode: 968055

Elections for Officers and Board Directors

Dear PRAS members, it’s that time of the year to elect the Officers and Board Directors for the upcoming year. This is usually done at our Annual Meeting in May. Due to Covid restrictions, this will need to be done virtually by the process of ‘unanimous consent’. The attached list represents our current slate of Officers and Board Directors. If there are any additional nominations, we need to hear back within 14 days of publication or promulgation. If none are received within that time period, the slate will be considered elected by ‘unanimous consent’. Thank you for your consideration.

Mike Krzyzkowski Nominating Committee Chair

PEACE RIVER AUDUBON SOCIETY OFFICERS / BOARD DIRECTORS 2021-2022 *

Co-President – Mike Krzyzkowski / Brenda Curtis Treasurer – Sandy Artman *** Secretary – Vikki Carpenter ***

DIRECTORS **

Michelle Kloese *** Cindy Macri Rob Mills *** Phyllis Cady Sandra Kaiser Kerry Bowers Pete Quasius Sue French Nancy Leipold

* Officers serve for 1 year ** Directors serve for 2 years *** Need re-election as a Director/ finished year 2 of term

COMMITTEE CHAIRS 2021-2022

Finance – Brenda Curtis/ Ron Robinson/ Sandy Artman Conservation – Brenda Curtis/ Pete Quasius Education – Michelle Kloese Pennington Park – Cindy Macri Field Trips – Rob Mills Banquet – to be decided Birdathon – Cathy Olson? CHEC Blind – Mike Krzyzkowski CHNEP – Bob Winter Xmas Bird Count – Tony Licata CHEC representative – Kerry Bowers Electronic Communication – Sandra Kaiser/ Phyllis Cady/ Kalinda Johnson Hospitality – Sue Galvin Membership – Phyllis Cady Programs – Mike Krzyzkowski Publicity – Sandra Kaiser/ Phyllis Cady Scholarship – Gregg Klowden

Ollie’s Pond – Field Trip Report

PRAS self-directed birding activity continues. Each month we select a birding site for members to visit on their own during a specified time period. We then ask those members to submit an e-mail report listing the birds species they have seen. Since starting this activity in September, we have visited 6 different hot spots. 32 people have participated and reported the birds they have seen thus far. We just completed our survey at Ollie’s pond in Port Charlotte. We did this spot last November and this month was much better than we experienced back then.

Here are the stats for the seven self guided birding activities thus far. For those of you that joined in, glad you did, and we’re always open for more to attend.

Month Location # Reports # Participants September Bayfront 10 13 October Prairie Creek 7 12 November Ollie’s Pond 7 9 January Babcock 8 14 February Celery Fields 4 8 March Kiwanis Park 7 11 April Ollie’s Pond 5 8

Month Location # Species Seen Average Per Report September Bayfront 39 14.8 October Prairie Creek 78 39.7 November Ollie’s Pond 36 13.0 January Babcock 67 25.1 February Celery Fields 65 42.8 March Kiwanis Park 35 15.7 April Ollie’s Pond 51 30.6

Here is the listing of bird species seen in April at Ollie’s Pond by our group and the number of reports listing each bird species.

Anhinga-5 Blackbird-Red Winged-5 Bluejay-4 Cardinal-Northern-5 Catbird-Grey-4 Cormorant-Double- Crested-5 Crow-American-2 Crow-Fish-3 Dove-Mourning-3 Duck-Black Bellied Whistling-3 Duck-Mottled-5 Eagle-Bald-1 Egret-Great-5 Egret-Snowy-4 Flycatcher-Great Crested-4 Gallinule-Common-5 Gnatcatcher-Blue Gray-1 Grackle-Boat Tailed-5 Grackle-Common-5 Hawk-Red Shouldered-1 Heron-Black Crowned Night-2 Heron-Great Blue-5 Heron-Green-4 Heron-Little Blue-5 Heron-Tricolored-5 Ibis-Glossy-1 Ibis-White-2 Killdeer-1 Kingfisher-1 Kite-Swallow Tailed-2 Mockingbird-Northern-3 Morph-1 Osprey-5 Parula-Northern-2 Sandpiper-Least-2 Sandpiper-Solitary-3 Spoonbill-Roseate-4 Stilt-Black-Necked-2 Teal-Blue Winged-4 Thrasher-Brown-1 Titmouse-Tufted-1 Vulture-Black-3 Warbler-Pine-1 Woodpecker-Downy-1 Woodpecker-Pileated-1 Woodpecker-Red Bellied-5 Woodstork-4 Wren-Carolina-3 Wren-House-1 Yellowlegs-Lesser-3 Yellowthroat-Common-2

Thanks to those joining in and we hope more will join in the future. As many of our members start to head North, for the summer, this will be the last Self Guided trip until Fall.

Hope everyone has a good summer.

Ron and Char Robinson Crob80517@aol.com