Join Us For Hands Across The Lagoon

Dee Fairbanks Simpson will be on the Wabasso bridge. If you plan to attend and want to meet for breakfast beforehand, send her email at deefairbanks@mac.com.

Come join Space Coast Audubon Society for our September 20th Pot Luck/Member Slide show plus Space Coast Audubon Society’s 60th Birthday Party

By Jim Eager/Space Coast Audubon Society Publicity Chair

WHO:  Space Coast Audubon Society (SCAS)

WHERE:  Rockledge Presbyterian Church, 921 Rockledge Dr, Rockledge, FL.

WHEN:   September 20, 2013 at 6:30 pm

Bring your favorite dish and join us for some good eats and talk about birding and all things nature.

Space Coast Audubon Society (SCAS) was formed in 1953 originally as Indian River Audubon Society.  Come join us for highlights of 60 years of SCAS.  One of the major highlights was the Allan & Helen Cruickshank’s move to Rockledge.  In an excerpt from an early Limpkin (SCAS newsletter)

We were especially fortunate in having Allan D. Cruickshank and his wife, Helen, move in upon us as neighbors, and their cooperation and unselfish help at all times has been an inspiration.  They are both nationally known for a wide variety of skills and performances with the National Audubon Society – photography, writing, lecturing, and conducting tours and camps.  Their presence, as friends and members of our little local Society, has put new life into it, and gratitude into all our hearts.

The Cruickshank’s have left their mark on the birding community here along the Space Coast.  They were instrumental in getting what is now Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge (MINWR) designated as a NWR when NASA created Kennedy Space Center (formerly known as Cape Canaveral).  Allan was good friends with the well known ornithologist Roger Tory Peterson of Peterson field guide fame.  Several of our longtime members who knew the Cruickshanks might have some stories birding with them.  There is a 5 mile loop trail at Stop #9 on Black Pt Dr at MINWR called the Cruickshank Trail as well as the Cruickshank Sanctuary located on Barnes Ave about ¼ mile west of US 1 in Rockledge, FL.

Visit the Space Coast Audubon Society website at www.spacecoastaudubon.org

We are looking forward to a great turnout.