Choctawhatchee Audubon Society (CAS) Activities for April 2019
April 4: Thursday evening program. Tropical Paradise: Trinidad and Tobago. Shannon Hobson and Malcolm Swan will show photos and video clips of island scenery, eco-lodges, nesting Tropicbirds, flocks of Scarlet Ibis, Oilbirds in their cave, Motmot, Jacamar, Tufted coquette, Boas, Nectar-sipping bats, and other marvelous creatures. The powerpoint presentation will be held in room 308/309 of the Student Services Building 400 at the Northwest Florida State College Niceville campus. Socializing begins at 6:30 PM and the program at 7:00 PM. Admission is free and open to the public. Contact Dave Clausen at (907) 321-3701 for more information. Please visit our website at choctawhatcheeaudubon.org and our Facebook page at Choctawhatchee Audubon.
April 6: Estuary Festival at Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou Park. Join Audubon naturalists and others in an opportunity to teach children how to identify birds. Meet in the park south of Rocky Bayou off Rt 20 at 9:00 AM. Bring a lawn chair and sack lunch. Contact Margaret Benner at (850) 678-6665 or Samantha Linder at (850) 729-4915 for additional information. Please visit our website at choctawhatcheeaudubon.org and our Facebook page at Choctawhatchee Audubon.
April 13: Birdwalk at Ft Pickens Gulf Island National Seashore. Experienced birder Lenny Fenimore leads exploration of the Fort and surrounding hotspots for returning early migrants. Contact Lenny at (850) 863-2039 for additional information. Meet under the Fort Walton Beach Uptown Station Shopping Center sign at 7 a.m. or the Langdon Battery in Gulf Islands National Seashore at 7:30 a.m. Wear long pants and long sleeved shirts and closed toe shoes. Please visit our website at choctawhatcheeaudubon.org and our Facebook page at Choctawhatchee Audubon.
April 20: Bird Banding at Ft Morgan Alabama. Observe a dedicated group of bird banders mist netting and banding Spring migrants along this beautiful barrier Island. Explore the fort and join Lenny Fenimore in a birding expedition of the grounds. Meet under the sign at Uptown Station Shopping Center in Fort Walton Beach at 7:00 AM or the Butterfly House in Navarre at 7:30 AM. Bring a sack lunch, water and a lawn chair. For additional information contact Lenny at (850) 863-2039. Please visit our website at choctawhatcheeaudubon.org and our Facebook page at Choctawhatchee Audubon.
April 27: Bird walk at Veterans Park on Okaloosa Island. Join Malcolm Swan and other interested birders in a walk through this amazing heron rookery and also see spring migrants and raptors. Meet at the NE corner of the Emerald Coast Convention Center parking lot at 7:30 AM. For additional information contact Malcolm at (210) 343-9082. Please visit the website at choctawhatcheeaudubon.org and our Facebook page at Choctawhatchee Audubon.