April 16, 2016 Turkey Creek field trip

WHO: Space Coast Audubon Society WHERE: Turkey Creek Sanctuary WHEN: Saturday April 16, 2016, 7:30 AM Join Bill Haddad for an early morning bird walk, looking for spring migrants, at Turkey Creek Sanctuary, Saturday April 16, 2016, in Palm Bay, 1518 Port Malabar Blvd. Meet in the parking lot at 7:30am and the walk should last several hours. Wear comfortable shoes, as this will be a walking field trip, bring hat, water and snacks. Jim Eager Space Coast Audubon Society Vice President Program/Publicity Chair

April 10, 2016 Tosohatchee WMA field trip

WHO: Space Coast Audubon Society WHERE: Tosohatchee WMA WHEN: Sunday April 10, 2016 Space Coast Audubon board members Matt Heyden, Lora Losi and Jim Stahl, a retired botanist, will be leading a bird and plant field trip to Tosohatchee WMA on Sunday April 10, 2016. We will meet at 8:30 am at the Cracker Barrel at I-95 & SR 50 (Exit # 215) in the south parking lot. The trip will be from 8:30-12:00. There is a $3.00 charge per car so carpooling is highly recommended. When car pooling, it is customary to provide gas money to the driver to help with their expense of driving. Wear appropriate clothing and comfortable shoes as there will be some walking required as Jim points out various trees and plants. I would suggest bringing drinks, snacks, lunch, sunscreen and bug spray (optional). In addition, you might want to bring a bird and/or plant guide. Please RSVP Matt Heyden at mheyden@aol.com. Jim Eager Space Coast Audubon Society Vice President Program/Publicity Chair

April 3, 2016 Three Lakes WMA/Joe Overstreet Field Trip

Who: Space Coast Audubon Society When: Sunday April 3, 2016 Where: Three Lakes WMA/Joe Overstreet Field Trip Space Coast Audubon Vice President, Jim Eager, will be leading a Space Coast Audubon field trip, Sunday April 3, 2016, to Three Lakes WMA, for Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Bachman’s Sparrow, Brown-headed Nuthatch, Eastern Bluebird and Pine Warbler. Next to Peavine Rd for King Rail, Lake Marian Marina for Limpkin, Bonaparte’s Gull, Purple Gallinule and American White Pelican. From there, off to Joe Overstreet Rd for Red-headed Woodpecker, Eastern Meadowlark and if they have returned Burrowing Owls. Next stop will be Joe Overstreet Landing (lunch) on beautiful Lake Kissimmee where we should see Snail Kite and Limpkin. We will also be on the lookout for Bald Eagle and Crested Caracara throughout the day. After we leave we will stop by Double C Bar Ranch in hopes of seeing the Whooping Crane. If we don’t see Snail Kite and/or Limpkin we will make a stop by Lakeshore Marina, in St Cloud, on our way back to Brevard County. This will be an all day trip so I would suggest bringing lunch, drinks, snacks, sunscreen and bug spray (optional). Wear appropriate clothes based on the weather and wear comfortable footwear. We will meet at Sam’s Club, 450 Townsend Rd, at I-95/SR 520 and leave at 6:00 am sharp. Please email me at beachbirder@bellsouth.net, or call and leave a message at 423-593-0059 if you will be going so I can have a list of attendees. When car pooling, it is customary to provide gas money to the driver to help with their expense of driving. Look forward to a good turnout. Jim Eager Space Coast Audubon Vice President Program/Publicity Chair

March 13, 2016 field trip to Circle B Bar

NOTE: The field trip to Three Lakes, on this date, has been rescheduled to April 3, 2016 Who: Space Coast Audubon Society When: Sunday March 13, 2016 Where: Circle B Bar Field Trip Space Coast Audubon President, Mark Wallace, will be leading a Space Coast Audubon field trip to Circle B Bar, 4399 Winter Lake Rd in Lakeland, on Sunday March 13, 2016. We will meet and leave at 7:00 am sharp from Sam’s Club, 450 Townsend Rd, at I-95/SR 520. From there we will carpool to Circle B Bar. This will be an all day trip and should be back around 5:00 pm so I would suggest bringing lunch, drinks, snacks, sunscreen and bug spray (optional). Wear appropriate clothes based on the weather and wear comfortable footwear as there will be a fair amount of walking. Please email Mark at markwallace@wispertel.net if you will be going so Mark can have a list of attendees. When car pooling, it is customary to provide gas money to the driver to help with their expense of driving. Look forward to a good turnout. Jim Eager Space Coast Audubon Vice President Program/Publicity Chair

March 18, 2016 general meeting

Join Space Coast Audubon Society for our March 18th Meeting “Florida's Important Bird Areas: monitoring and stewardship by partners and volunteers” WHO: Space Coast Audubon Society (SCAS) WHERE: Rockledge Presbyterian Church, 921 Rockledge Dr, Rockledge, FL. WHEN: March 18, 2016 at 7:30 pm Dr. Marianne Korosy will be our speaker and will be presenting Florida’s Important Bird Areas: monitoring and stewardship by partners and volunteers Marianne Korosy is Florida’s IBA Coordinator and has worked for Audubon Florida since 2009 with a focus on building volunteer-based, outdoor stewardship programs for shorebirds, seabirds, and Florida Scrub-Jays in Important Bird Areas. Marianne has bachelors and masters degrees in geology from Florida State University and a PhD in conservation biology from the University of Central Florida. Florida's IBA areas include coastal beaches, pine forests, grasslands and scrub-lands. We will take a tour of examples of each of these habitats and the bird monitoring and stewardship efforts underway by Audubon chapters, volunteers, and partners. Florida's Important Bird Area Program supports the persistence of our state's native avifauna and native habitats through sound land management, habitat preservation, and the work of volunteer citizen scientists. Florida's birds and their habitats are under continued pressure from habitat loss and fragmentation, fire exclusion, proliferation of exotic and invasive species, and various forms of human disturbance. Here In Brevard County we have 2 IBAs. Brevard Scrub Ecosystem IBA—there are over 12 sites throughout Brevard County Cape Canaveral-Merritt Island IBA-includes Cape Canaveral AFS, Merritt Island NWR & Canaveral National Seashore Visit the Space Coast Audubon Society website at www.spacecoastaudubon.org and check out the Space Coast Audubon Facebook page at www.facebook.com/pages/Space-Coast-Audubon We look forward to another great turnout. Jim Eager Space Coast Audubon Society Vice President Program/Publicity Chair

South Brevard CBC Final Results for 2015

The following is the final tally for the 2015 South Brevard Christmas Bird Count. Our final accepted species number is 149. Thanks again to all the folks who helped out with it.

Dee

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck    52 (Graylag) Domestic Goose    10 Muscovy Duck    20 Wood Duck    1 American Wigeon    2 Mallard    9 Mallard X Mottled Duck    37 Mottled Duck    129 Northern Shoveler    5 Green-winged Teal    1 Ring-necked Duck    1 Lesser Scaup    503 Black Scoter    25 Hooded Merganser    9 Red-breasted Merganser    33 Duck species    2 Common Peafowl    1 Northern Bobwhite    6 Wild Turkey    26 Common Loon    4 Pied-billed Grebe    32 Horned Grebe    36 Wood Stork    30 Magnificent Frigatebird    3 Northern Gannet    85 Double-crested Cormorant    782 Anhinga    102 American White Pelican    217 Brown Pelican    830 American Bittern    1 Least Bittern    2 Great Blue Heron    105 Great Egret    148 Snowy Egret    60 Little Blue Heron    115 Tricolored Heron    29 Cattle Egret    404 Green Heron    15 Black-crowned Night Heron    31 Yellow-crowned Night Heron    1 White Ibis    671 Glossy Ibis    1 Roseate Spoonbill    3 Black Vulture    588 Turkey Vulture    288 Osprey    185 Northern Harrier    8 Sharp-shinned Hawk    4 Cooper's Hawk    1 Bald Eagle    21 Red-shouldered Hawk    59 Red-tailed Hawk    5 King Rail    1 Clapper Rail    1 Sora    2 Common Gallinule    25 American Coot    8 Limpkin    9 Sandhill Crane    124 American Oystercatcher    4 Black-bellied Plover    9 Killdeer    203 Spotted Sandpiper    4 Greater Yellowlegs    6 Willet    84 Ruddy Turnstone    105 Sanderling    180 Dunlin    2 Long-billed Dowitcher    10 Wilson's Snipe    21 American Woodcock    2 Laughing Gull    299 Ring-Billed Gull    205 Herring Gull    39 Lesser Black-backed Gull    11 Great Black-backed Gull    9 Caspian Tern    10

Forster's Tern    77 Royal Tern    110 Sandwich Tern    1 Black Skimmer    172 Rock Pigeon    90 Eurasian Collared Dove    42 Common Ground Dove    37 White-winged Dove    25 Mourning Dove    438 Barn Owl    1 Eastern Screech Owl    12 Great Horned Owl    4 Barred Owl    6 Ruby-throated Hummingbird    2 Hummingbird species    1 Belted Kingfisher    50 Red-bellied Woodpecker    139 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker    12 Downy Woodpecker    20 Hairy Woodpecker    2 Red-cockaded Woodpecker    11 Northern Flicker    5 Pileated Woodpecker    21 Crested Caracara    7 American Kestrel    89 Merlin    2 Eastern Phoebe    95 Great Crested Flycatcher    1 Loggerhead Shrike    28 White-eyed Vireo    20 Blue-headed Vireo    11 Blue Jay    137 Florida Scrub-Jay    23 Fish Crow    128 Tree Swallow    13517 Tufted Titmouse    1 Brown-headed Nuthatch    17 House Wren    36 Sedge Wren    8 Carolina Wren    75 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher    50 Ruby-crowned Kinglet    5 Eastern Bluebird    2 Hermit Thrush    1 American Robin    6796 Gray Catbird    201 Northern Mockingbird    130 European Starling    145 Cedar Waxwing    99 Black-and-white Warbler    7 Orange-crowned Warbler    3 Common Yellowthroat    39 Palm Warbler    211 Pine Warbler    371 Yellow-rumped Warbler    1031 Yellow-throated Warbler    6 Prairie Warbler    10 Eastern Towhee    30 Bachman's Sparrow    16 Chipping Sparrow    17 Vesper Sparrow    5 Savannah Sparrow    39 Grasshopper Sparrow    6 Swamp Sparrow    6 Northern Cardinal    106 Painted Bunting    15 Red-winged Blackbird    77 Eastern Meadowlark    31 Common Grackle    963 Boat-tailed Grackle    250 Brown-headed Cowbird    1 American Goldfinch    135 House Sparrow    15 Mute Swan    2