Important Announcements from SCAS Board of Directors

• Want to keep up to date on all things Space Coast Audubon Society and know it as soon as it happens?  Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/SpaceCoastAudubon/info and enter your email address and you can join our email list.  Get up to date news, sightings, events, and more.
• Are you on Facebook?  So are we, like us at www.facebook.com/pages/Space-Coast-Audubon/125683777485043
• Do you love wildlife photography?  Do you want to show off your photos?  Do you want to see other great local photographer’s work?  Check us out at www.flickr.com/groups/spacecoastaudubonsociety
• Meetup.com.  We’re on it, and it’s a great place to find out about recently added field trips.  Just enter Space Coast Audubon, and sign up.  It’s easy, and very convenient, and so far 48 members are taking advantage of this free service.  Go to www.meetup.com/Space-Coast-Audubon-Meetup
• Board of Directors opening.  Board positions are important, and do involve work.  So, if you have strong feelings about our chapter, and can play an active role, now may be the time.  We have a great board, and they work well together.  Please contact our President, Mark Wallace.  For a list of board members visit our website at www.spacecoastaudubon.org and click on “Contact Us”  
• Our chapter needs a new newsletter editor and web designer. Dee Fairbanks Simpson has been a huge asset to this chapter while taking on these positions and her professional life at the same time. Dee and David have moved to the Indian River county border and this makes keeping in touch with Brevard county happenings difficult. We would like as many people as possible with some experience in newsletter publishing and/or web design to help take over this project.
• We also need some article writers. What is the purpose of a newsletter with out any content? Have you been on a birding trip lately and would like to share it? Got a story about a great bird? Please, let us know.
• The chapter also needs the assistance of teachers or retired teachers that would like to help out our education department. Non-teachers are needed as well, so please contact us if you are interested.
• There will be a wildlife handling course in February.  If you are interested, please contact Jason Frederick at heyyoukidd@yahoo.com or 321-449-9678 to sign up for it.  Because of county and agency financial cuts, volunteers are needed to rescue and transport injured birds to the Florida Wildlife Hospital.  A person from the Florida Wildlife Hospital will be on hand for the training.
• We’ve received some wonderful news from Amazon.com this month!  They have a new charitable giving program that Space Coast Audubon is eligible for.  Amazon will now donate 0.5% of a customer’s purchase to a charity of the customer’s choice.  This is even better than matching donations because it doesn’t require you to make a contribution.  There is no cost to you at all!  If you would like to donate money to Space Coast Audubon this way, all you have to do is go to “smile.amazon.com” and select Space Coast Audubon as your charity of choice.  Then, when you shop with Amazon, go to “smile.amazon.com” instead of “amazon.com” and shop as usual.  The best way to remember to do this is to go to “smile.amazon.com” and create a bookmark.  We’d really like to encourage you to do this.  We’re working on building a boardwalk at the Port Canaveral locks.  We think this will be a great attraction for birders, nature lovers, school children and tourists alike.  We’ve been working on getting the boardwalk built for over ten years and we’re getting close.  This is a no cost way for you to help with the boardwalk and all of our other activities.