Volume LXI, Number 4 January 2009

January Monthly Meeting Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 7:00 P.M.

Birmingham Zoo Auditorium “The Ecological Impacts of Climate Change on the Antarctic Peninsula:

From Plankton to Penguins” Presented by: Dr. James McClintock

MEET CLARA AND ANGELO The Birmingham Zoo’s Curator of Birds and her staff will continue introducing BAS to their bird collection. The next introduction will be at 6:00 p.m. on January 15th, prior to the January monthly meeting. January’s featured birds are the Blue and Gold Macaws, Clara and Angelo. The people who attended

the November bird introduction were delighted. So bring friends and family for a behind-the-scenes intro-duction to various birds. Please meet in the lobby of the zoo auditorium; you will be through in time for the regular pre-meeting hospitality moments. .

We all know the climate is changing. This month Dr. James McClintock will share his most re-cent observations of those changes in the Antarctic. He will discuss the current and potential impacts of climate change on the ecology of the Antarctic and beyond. His beautiful images will take us to the bot-tom of the world and below the frigid waters. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear a most outstanding speaker and to see someone who has had a geo-graphic feature officially named after him. We are lucky to have a renowned world class scientist as our presenter. James B. McClintock is the Endowed Univer-sity Professor of Polar and Marine Biology at the Uni-versity of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He re-ceived his Bachelor of Science degree from the Uni-versity of California at Santa Cruz (1978) and his doc-toral degree from the University of South Florida (1984). In 1987, after completing a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California at Santa Cruz, he joined the faculty of the Department of Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He became a Full Professor at UAB in 1997 and has also served as Dean of the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (1999-2003) and as Interim Dean of the Graduate School (2003-2005). Dr. McClintock’s research focuses on aspects of ma-rine invertebrate nutrition, reproduction, and primarily,

chemical ecology. He has published over 175 scien-tific publications, edited and written books, and has been invited to make numerous scientific and popular science presentations. He recently returned from his 13th expedition to Antarctica where, over the past two decades, he and his research collaborators have be-come the world’s authorities on Antarctic marine chemical ecology and have developed an award win-ning interactive educational outreach web site (www.antarctica.uab.edu). He has become an expert on the ecological impacts of climate change on the Antarctic Peninsula. He has received numerous awards including the UAB Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award for excellence in teaching and the UAB Caroline P. and Charles W. Ireland Prize for outstanding scholar-ship. In 2001 he was selected as the winner of the Wright A. Gardner Award for the most outstanding scientist in the state of Alabama. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advance-ment of Science. In 1998 the United States Board on Geographic Names designated the geographic fea-ture “McClintock Point” in honor of his contributions to Antarctic science. Attend and enjoy this program. Please come early at 6:45 p.m. to socialize and enjoy some refreshments. Guests are welcome.

SoSo for the Record

Sightings - October 2 through November 23, 2008 An Iceland and a California Gull were special “finds” for this period. The California was an adult discovered at Gunters-

ville 25 October by Greg Jackson. The first winter Iceland was also seen at Guntersville 22, 23 November by Steve McCon-

nell. Both of these rarities were well documented with excellent photographs.

The latest �orthern Saw-whet Owl banded at Clay, by Bob and Martha Sargent, is an AMAZING number eleven!

Other sightings were:

Audubon Teaches Nature Birds on Parade, Close Encounters with Alabama’s Birds of Prey Presented by Sandra Allinson, Ashley Rozelle-Gault & Curt Cearly

Sunday, January 18, 2009 at 2:00 P.M. Alabama Wildlife Center at Oak Mountain State Park

Our next Audubon Teaches Nature seminar will be unique in that we will not have one guest speaker, but three, with a supporting cast of birds of prey to boot! Sandra Allinson, Director of Education and Rehabilitation at the Alabama Wildlife Center, will be joined by her friends Ashley Rozelle-Gault and Curt Cearly. Several species of birds of prey are found in Alabama through-out the year, and winter is an ideal time to observe them. Our program today will feature several live birds, and Sandra, Ashley and Curt will offer interesting insights into the life histories of each bird. Following the program, weather permitting and with the cooperation of the birds, we’ll have an op-portunity to photograph them so be sure to bring your camera!

We will gather for refreshments prior to the program, in the front Observation Room at the Ala-bama Wildlife Center. After refreshments and some social time together, we will move to the Auditorium for the afternoon’s program. Door prizes will be awarded but you must register and be present in order to win. The programs are free but park admission is $3.00 per person. Come early for fellowship and refreshments in the

Observation Room at The Center!

The next seminar in the schedule: February 22: Keeping Little Ones Wild ~ Bringing up Baby the Way Nature Intended, Sandra Allinson

10/2 Orange-crowned Warbler; Rose-breasted Grosbeak; Bluff Park (SB).

10/8 Bald Eagle; Lake Purdy. Eastern Kingbird; Oak Mountain State Park (HW, AC).

10/10 Winter Wren; Ruffner Mountain (SD).

10/11 House Wren; Ruby-crowned Kinglet; Wood Thrush; Eleven warblers, including: �orthern Parula, Chestnut-

sided, Magnolia, Black-throated Green, Yellow-throated, Bay-breasted and Hooded; Summer Tanager; Rose-

breasted Grosbeak; and Indigo Bunting; Ruffner Mountain and Turkey Creek (SD).

10/25 Franklin’s (31) and Laughing (5) Gulls; Guntersville (GJ).

10/28 Ducks- American Wigeon, Ring-necked, Lesser Scaup, and Hooded Merganser; Lake Purdy (GJ).

11/3 Merlin; East Birmingham, airport (GJ).

11/15 Purple Finch; Clay (BS, MS).

11/23 Red-throated Loon; Guntersville (SMcC).

Contributors: Sheila Bancroft, Alice Christenson, Scot Duncan, Greg Jackson, Steve McConnell, Bob and Martha Sargent,

Harriett Wright

Please submit sightings for February FF at least five days before January 1st deadline to Ann Miller, 520 Yorkshire

Drive, Birmingham, Al. 35209.

January Half-day Field Trip Saturday, January 10, 2009 Red Mountain Park

Saturday, January 10th, BAS will take its first ever field trip to Birmingham’s new Red Mountain Park. Red Mountain Park is a 1,108-acre tract of land along Red Mountain. The property serves as a major link in a network of greenways, extending Mountain Brook's Jemison Trail and Homewood's Shades Creek Greenway all the way to Bessemer. Join us for our half-day hike and bird watching adventure. For more information about the park please visit: http://www.redmountainpark.org/park_index.php

Meeting Plans: At 8:00 a.m. we will gather at the Bruno’s parking lot on Lakeshore Drive. This is located west of exit 255 off I-65. Head west from the exit (in the direction of Wal-Mart) and the Bruno’s will be lo-cated on the right, accessed from the frontage road that serves the shopping center. If you have ques-tions, you may call our trip leader, Jessica Germany, at 595-0814.

January Field Trip Saturday, January 17, 2009 Lake Guntersville & Environs

Please join us Saturday, January 17th, for an all-day trip to view wintering waterfowl and raptors in the Guntersville area. It is the best place I know to have a close look at a number of duck species and to enjoy their rich colors. In addition, hawks and eagles are quite likely. We will leave at 7:00 a.m. sharp from the McDonald’s in the Tarrant Shopping Center on AL-79 in Pinson. From I-20/59 take the Tallapoosa Street exit, go north about 3 miles. McDonald’s and the Tar-rant Shopping Center will be on the left. After traveling north on AL-79, we will stop around 8:00 a.m. at the Burger King in Guntersville for coffee, biscuits and a restroom break. To reach the Burger King from AL-79, turn left on US-431 and drive north a few blocks. During the morning we will make several stops around Guntersville Lake with Dick and Linda Reynolds, our hosts, expert birders and guides to the area. At 11:30 a.m., we will stop for lunch at the Guntersville Public Library. Bring your favorite picnic lunch and drinks. At 12:45 p.m., we will prepare to visit the nearby Hawk Farm to view hawks and eagles. Meet at the site of the former Harbor House restau-

rant, (on the right just before US-431 crosses the lake) to caravan to Guntersville Dam and from there on to the Hawk Farm. Please – only visit the Hawk Farm with our group. This is private property not open to the general public. If you wish to meet the group at Guntersville Dam at 1:00 p.m., go north on US-431 across Lake Guntersville. Approximately 12.5 miles from where US-431 crosses the lake, turn left onto Lake Gunters-ville Dam Road. Stop in the parking lot at the end of the road. Here we will consolidate riders and go to Hawk Farm as we will need as few cars as possible driving onto the property. Since temperatures in Guntersville can be quite lower than those in Birmingham, it would be ad-visable to wear coats, hats, gloves, etc., and lots of warm layers. Please bring drinks, snacks and binocu-lars and a spotting scope if you have one. For more information, call our trip leader, John Swan, at 933-6469 home or 205-276-4909 cell.

The Birmingham Audubon Society would like to thank the following for their recent memorial gifts: Mr. John N. Randolph Mrs. Allen D. Rushton

Hooded Mergansers By Shirley Farrell

Guntersville Lake is the destination for this month’s field trip. You will find many Canada Geese, as well as so many different species of ducks. One of my favorite ducks, and a visitor to my lake, is the Hooded Merganser, Lophodytes cucullatus. There are three species of mergansers in North America: Com-mon Merganser, Red-breasted Merganser, and Hooded Merganser. Of all three species, the Hooded Merganser is the smallest (13-19 inches) and found only in the North America. This shy bird has a crest (hood) that may be expanded or contracted depending on the message the bird is sending. The male bird, or drake, has a white crest surrounded by black feathers and the fe-male bird, or hen, has a reddish hood with grayish-brown feathers on the rest of her body. Notice the bird’s bill. It is not the typical large, flat bill of a duck but is classified as a sawbill. This is a long, pointed bill with serrated edges that helps the duck hold onto slip-pery fish. Its long, pointed tail is pointed up at an angle as it swims. This bird is usually very quiet but when it does make noises it sounds like the low croaking of a frog. Males have yellow eyes while females and imma-ture males have dull brown eyes. When identifying a duck, many birders will tell

you to know “where the white is.” Notice the location of the white on the Hooded Merganser: hood, chest (with alternating back bands), and white patches on the wings. This duck lives around wooded creeks, ponds, lakes and swamps, as well as fast-moving rivers. The nest is found in a tree cavity lined with the downy chest feathers of the female. The female lays an aver-age of 13 eggs. The eggs hatch in about a month and one day later everyone jumps out of the nest to go to the water. Ducklings fledge (go off on their own) after 10 weeks! Not all ducks swim around dipping their heads underwater to eat plants. There are some duck spe-cies that dive underwater. The Hooded Merganser is one that catches its food underwater. They eat small fish, frogs, crayfish, crustaceans, and aquatic insects. The birds actually swim with their eyes OPEN! The third eyelid, or nictating membrane, is transparent and may act like swimming goggles protecting the birds’ eyes. This bird is a fast swimmer and rarely surfaces where it had dived. The bird may surface as far as 30 feet away from the diving spot! Hooded Mergansers breed as far north as Canada and Alaska but may be found in Alabama year-round. Many northern birds will migrate to Ala-bama to spend the winter too.

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Hooded Mergansers dive underwater to catch their food.

Here follows a summary of recent issues addressed by the Conservation Committee, any action taken and results of same: A request was sent to State Representatives Arthur Payne and John Rogers asking them to support Patricia Todd's and Linda Coleman's efforts to introduce a bill for funding a regional transportation system in Jefferson County. An issue of great concern is the Northern Beltline. This project has languished to some degree, but there is renewed interest in rejuvenating it. The Coalition for Re-gional Transport, a non-profit group composed of U.S. Steel, Drummond Coal, and Daniel Realty, among others, has been formed to begin economic studies and strategies for development along the Beltline, much like that around I-459. This project will be destructive to the Cahaba River and pave the way for future developments. Updates on this as they become available. Across the globe, the U.N. has issued a report about the polluted air over Asia and China. Atmospheric brown clouds, plumes of soot, smog and toxic chemicals, rise over hot spots around the globe, most noticeably in Asia. These clouds, products of coal fired factories and power plants, cars and diesel trucks and wood burning stoves, are dramatically reducing sunlight, which in turn leads to reduced food crop harvests, increases in respiratory and cardiac disease, decreased monsoonal rains, particu-larly in India and southeast Asia and melting glaciers in the Himalayas. This brown haze is at times a mile thick and is visible from airplanes. It stretches from the Arabian penin-sula (Cairo), over Iran (Teheran), China (Beijing), the Koreas (Seoul) and over to California. A water quality issue: The chemical, percholate, could be in your drinking water. It is a by-product of the manufacture of rocket fuel, ammunition and flares. It alters the production of hormones in the thyroid, posing a threat to the very young, expectant mothers and individuals with a pre-existing thyroid condition. It has been found in the drink-ing water of 28 states, and by extension, in milk and certain vegetables. At the present, the EPA has announced that it would not set a limit for percholate in water supplies or re-quire a cleanup. On the national front, the outgoing administration has proposed changes to regulations concerning water and air quality. Four of these changes are as follows: 1) A rule change will allow coal companies in Appa-lachia to dump waste from mountaintop removal mining into adjacent streams and valleys, thus destroying drinking water sources and habitats for the salamanders and fish that live in the streams. This is a violation of the Stream Buffer Zone Rule, which was written to prohibit surface coal mining com-panies from disturbing areas within 100' of permanent and seasonal streams. 2,000 miles of streams have already been destroyed. As of press time, the EPA, un-heedful of the 40,000+ objections received, has of Dec. 4, 2008, signed off

on the change. Opponents of this action have argued the point that the EPA could not legally approve the change be-cause doing so would conflict with its' duties under the Clean Water Act. The Governors and other senior officials of Ken-tucky and Tennessee, the states most seriously threatened, urged EPA not to approve the change. The practice of mountaintop removal mining has long been opposed by Ap-palachian residents. Over the years, more than 400 moun-taintops have been stripped of their trees and flattened. 387,000 acres of forest have been replaced by what can only be called a lunar landscape. Countless streams and waterways have been irretrievably lost. 2) Another rule change will ease the restrictions on the construction of power plants near national parks and wilderness areas. 3) A third rule change would reduce the role of fed-eral wildlife scientists in deciding the impact of construction projects, such as dams and highways, on endangered spe-cies. 4) The Department of the Interior announced a new rule that challenges Congress' authority to prevent mining on public lands. This authority has most recently been exer-cised in June '08, when a three year moratorium was placed on uranium mining on over one million acres nears the Grand Canyon. The current Secretary of the Interior has ignored that directive, saying it is procedurally flawed. The Department contends that the committee action taken to establish the power is invalid due the panel not having a quorum. The committee chairman disputes the allegation. Environmental groups (the Sierra Club, the Center for Bio-logical Diversity and the Grand Canyon Trust) are currently suing the Bureau of Land Management for failure to obey the directive. The revision of the rule eliminates all reference to Congressional authority and has been moved through the rule making process extremely quickly. It was proposed in October, with a 15-day window for public comment. An Inte-rior Department spokesman said that the law had been dor-mant since the early 1980's but that "it has again come for-ward and that makes this an appropriate time to address this sticking point in our regulations.” Much closer to home, Governor Riley denied a per-

mit to Terminal Offshore Regas Plant (TORP), a Houston, TX-based energy company, to build a liquid natural gas (LNG) terminal near Dauphin Island. When LNG is cargoed by tanker, it is chilled and must be heated in order for it to flow into pipes leading to the mainland for use by residences and commercial enterprises. TORP intended to use what is called an "open loop" process of heating LNG. In this proc-ess, water from the Gulf of Mexico would be drawn into the terminal, heated and then poured over the chilled LNG and subsequently returned in the heated stage to the Gulf wa-ters. Conservationists and government scientists feared that the hot water would injure and possibly kill fish and other saltwater organisms.

Birmingham Audubon in Education

BIRMINGHAM AUDUBON AWARDS

48 MINI-GRANTS TO LOCAL TEACHERS FOR

CONSERVATION & NATURE PROJECTS & PROGRAMS

1. Mt. Olive Elementary School - $297.85 - Butterfly & Hummingbird Garden, gifted students, Sue Ausman

2. Gardendale Elementary School - $300 - Bird Observa-tion Garden, 2nd grade, Anna Beam

3. Paine Intermediate School - $300 - Field Trip to Botani-cal Gardens, 5th grade, Ann Bettis

4. Westhills Elementary School - $300 - Bird Observation Station, 3rd grade, Kim Bramlett

5. Inglenook K-8 - $245 – Field Trip to Zoo, Kindergarten, Debra Brantley

6. St. Aloysius School - $300 - Ruffner Mountain Nature Center traveling naturalist, “O is for Owl, Oriole, & Os-prey”, Kindergarten, Winifred Bratton

7. Greystone Elementary School - $300 - Ruffner Moun-tain Nature Center traveling naturalist, “Fur, Feathers, and Scales”, 1st grade, Jennifer Cagle

8. Snow Rogers Elementary School - $298.94 - Mobile Science Classroom Lab and Outdoor Classroom/Nature Trail, 4th grade, Wanda Carlisle

9. Snow Rogers Elementary School - $285 - Books and other resource materials relating to nature and life sci-ence for the school library media center and mobile science lab, Debra Cordell

10. Grantswood Elementary School - $282 - Field Trip to Botanical Gardens, “Secret Life of Trees” for Kindergar-ten, Trish Cummings

11. Grantswood Elementary School - $188 – Field Trip to Botanical Gardens, “Alabama Wetlands” for 1st graders, Trish Cummings

12. Grantswood Elementary School - $188 - Field Trip to Botanical Gardens, “George Washington Carver” for 2nd graders, Trish Cummings

13. Westhills Elementary School - $290 - Growing Junior Master Gardeners, grades 3-6, Jo E. Dale

14. Kermit Johnson Elementary School - $300 - Outdoor Classroom/Living Lab, Dianne Davis

15. Kermit Johnson Elementary School -$300 - Field Trip to Birmingham Southern Environmental Center, Gifted 3-5 graders, Terri Dixon

16. Phillips Academy - $296.29 - Outdoor Classroom,

grade 5, Joy Doering 17. EPIC School - $288.06 - “Endangered! Planet Earth” –

Hands-on science activity materials, grade 4, Audrey Fine

18. Huffman Middle School - $300 - Science Olympiad Competition for 6th-8th grade Science Olympiad Team, study and lab materials, Lise Gelatko

19. Kermit Johnson Elementary - $300 - Field Trip to Bir-mingham Southern Environmental Center, 3rd, 4th, & 5th grade, Teresa Gober

20. Montevallo Middle School - $300 - Cahaba River Walk for 8th graders, Carrie Hamilton

21. Gresham Elementary School - $300 - Trip to Bear Creek Education Center for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade gifted students, Jill Hickey

22. Lipscomb Elementary School - $270.26 - Field Trip to Alabama Wildlife Center at Oak Mountain State Park, Thomas Hobgood

23. Gardendale Elementary School - $300 - Butterfly Ob-servation Garden, 3rd grade, Erica Hughes

24. Spring Valley School - $300 - Butterfly Garden, Joan Keagy, Director

25. Gwin Elementary School - $191 - Bird Observation Sta-tion, Traci Ingleright

26. Inverness Elementary School - $300 - Fish Aquarium for Kindergarten Special Students, Susan Lee

27. Elvin Elementary School - $300 - Outdoor Classroom that Student Council members will construct, Jenny Lespi

28. Clay-Chalkville High School - $272 - Field Trip to Zoo, select students in grades 10-12, Kathryn Manley

29. Inglenook K-8 - $245 - Field Trip to Zoo, Kindergarten, Paula Marbury-Cook

30. Adamsville Elementary School - $300 - Green Club Organic Garden, a project of 5th grade Green Club, Lindsay Mouyal

31. South Shades Crest Elementary School – $170 - McWane Science Center classroom speaker with the “Amazing Animals” program, for 1st grade classrooms, Karen Greene Pirkle

For the academic year, 2008-2009, the Birmingham Audubon Society awarded 48 mini-grants to local teachers to help fund field trips, guest speakers, and special projects relating to our conservation and education mission. Most of these projects and field trips would not be possible without the assistance provided by BAS. The financial support for this mini-grant program comes from the Diana Stobert Sessions and Paul Trammell Ses-sions, Jr. Foundation. All teachers in Jefferson and Shelby counties are eligible for these grants. Information about them and the application forms are on our website at www.birminghamaudubon.org . Click on Grants and Scholarships, then Mini-grants. The Education Committee asks that BAS members relate this information to all science and ele-mentary school teachers who might be interested in the BAS mini-grants.

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32. South Shades Crest Elementary School – $170 - McWane Science Center classroom speaker with the “Environmental Explorations “ program, for 1st grade classrooms, Karen Pirkle

33. Pinson Elementary School - $300 – McWane Science Center Camp-In and preparation for Science Olympiad Team for 2nd graders, Missy Presley

34. Gate City Elementary School - $300 for 1st grade Field Trip to Ruffner Mountain Center, Gail Smith, Coordinator

35. Whatley K-8 School - $300 - Field Trip for 6th grade to Ruffner Mountain Nature Center, Gail Smith, Coordinator

36. Phillips Academy - $300 - Field Trip for 5th grade to Ruff-ner Mountain Nature Center, Gail Smith, Coordinator

37. Shelby Elementary - $300 - Field Trip to Botanical Gar-dens for K-5 students, Meka Smith

38. Inglenook K-8 - $245 - Field Trip to Zoo for Kindergarten, Cherie Stubbs

39. Meadow View Elementary School - $300 - “From Seed to Salad Bar” school garden, 3rd Grade, Sandra Swindall

40. Snow Rogers Elementary School - $300 - Outdoor Class-

room/Nature Trail, Ruth Terry 41. Mount Olive Elementary School -$300 - Mount Olive Bo-

tanical Garden and Outdoor Classroom, Kindergarten project, Laura Thomas

42. Lipscomb Elementary School - $300 - Science Olympiad Team Competition expenses, Anetra Thrash

43. Phillips Academy - $276.47 - Aquatic Garden at Jones Valley Urban Farms 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders, Amy Waine

44. Hueytown Elementary School - $300 - Field Trip to Bo-tanical Gardens for “Secret Life of Trees” program, Kin-dergarten, Martha Waldrop

45. Montevallo High School - $300 - Field Trip to Alabama Wildlife Center at Oak Mountain State Park, Hilary Whitson

46. St. Aloysius School - $300 - “Patterns of Birds and Prob-ability, 8th grade project, Renee Williams

47. Paine Intermediate - $250 – Field Trip to Zoo, 1st grade, Chuck Yeager

48. Inglenook K-8 - $300 - Field Trip to Zoo, 1st grade, Dedra Yeldell

Education Committee:

Alice Christenson, Shirley Farrell, Jean Folsom, Greg Harber, Lori Oswald, Maureen Shaffer, Ann Sweeney

Birmingham Audubon in Education Continued:

Flicker Flashes is published eight times a year by the Birmingham Audubon Society. Editor: Bianca J. Allen (205) 854-5233 Ass’t Editor: Greg Harber (205) 251-2133

Birmingham, Audubon Society A Chapter of the National Audubon Society P.O. Box 314 Birmingham, AL 35201 Business Office: 200 19th St. No. Birmingham, AL 35201 (205) 714-8227 Audubon@McWane.org

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BAS 1/2 day Field Trip, Red Mountain Park

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McWane Science Center

Board Meeting, BZA, 5:45 p.m.

General Meeting, BZA, 7:00 p.m.

Dr. James Lamb

McWane Science Center, Fossil Birds

BAS Field Trip

Camp Kanawahala

Audubon Teaches Nature

The Wildlife Center, 2:00 p.m.