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The
Trailhead is located in Lake County, Florida. map
For more information, please contact info@scrubjaytrail.org
(352) 429-5566 open:
sat - wed : 8:00-5:00
Email photo contributions
of wildlife or plants seen
on the trail to this address: photos@scrubjaytrail.org |
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March
28, 2009 Trailday Newsletter
Hello Trailblazers!
Welcome to Spring! After such a nasty
Winter, it's great to get back outside to watch the buds budding
and hear the scrub-jays screeching.
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Special Trailday
This Saturday, March 28, there will be a fascinating program preceding the
trail work. Rosi Mulholland, Statewide Fire Coordinator for the
Department of Environmental Protection and long-time friend and
supporter of the Florida Scrub-Jay Trail,
will give a program on the importance
of fire in habitat restoration.
What should we expect after The Florida
Scrub-Jay Trailhead is burned in a few years? Rosi will offer a fascinating
Power-Point presentation, and give us a chance to check out an engine.
If you're skittish about getting hosed, you may want to watch from the
porch. Following Rosi's presentation, we'll head out to the west side of
the Trail for some weeding and planting scrub palmettos, sand live oaks
and more wildflowers.
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| Upcoming
Events |
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Master Class on Honey Bees - April 19th,
9am-noon
The honeybee is one of the most important pollinators known to mankind,
and we are losing them at an alarming rate. Now you have the opportunity
to hear and see what it is that makes this bee so important to our
food chain and economic well being.
Join Jean Vasicek -founder of
Winter Park Honey on
a journey into her life with bees in Central Florida. Watch the bees
as they make their honeycomb, and taste the difference between organically
produced raw unfiltered honey and off-the-shelf processed honey.
Location: B.B.Brown's Gardens , 11490 Monte Vista Rd, Clermont,FL
34711
Cost: $5.00 per person for current Florida Scrub-Jay
Trail members and $10.00 per person for non members.
Non- members who join concurrently
with registering for the class pay member rate. For membership information
contact or
call
(352)-429-5566.
Earth Day at Enchanted Forest- Titusville,
FL
Celebrate
Earthday , Saturday, April 4th from 10am-4pm at
Enchanted
Forest in Titusville .
The
Florida Scrub-Jay front license plates will be for sale there and
our
very own Joyce and Bill Stefancic will
be manning the booth.
If you would like to help out for an hour
or two, that will give Joyce and Bill a chance to tour through
this beautiful facility and nature sanctuary. Please let us know
if you can help
Adopt-A-Roadway
The Florida
Scrub-Jay Trail has signed up with Lake County to clean up 2 miles
of Monte Vista Road, from Pine Island to Montevista Lane. This
operation will happen 4 times a year starting April 11 from 8:00
am to ? In return for our work, we get to wear neon vests and pretend
we're on a prison gang.
We're asking for volunteer help, so if you're interested, let us
know.
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| Scrub-Jay
Juvenile Update |
We’re waiting with great anticipation
to see if the resident family will produce some off-spring. There’s
been a lot of activity as of late, and often times we’ll
see only two of the family, indicating the possibility that one
is on the nest. Hope for many babies!
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| Seen
On The Trail |
Sherman's Fox Squirrel
Ann Dequevedo spotted a Sherman's Fox Squirrel this past week. (photos
to come)
It was making its way from the adjoining woods
of large oak trees passing through the nursery and over towards
the pine trees and neighboring oaks trees near the shade house.
It
has been many years since we've seen a Sherman's Fox Squirrel
on the adjoining property.
This is a species of special concern
listed with the State of Florida and, although our restoration
efforts for the Florida scrub-jay's habitat are different
from the habitat of Sherman's Fox Squirrel, it sure is nice to
know that they are still in the area.
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| National Wildlife Federation Habitat Stewards Program |
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This Spring's NWF Habitat Stewards Training was
extremely successful. The lineup of speakers included author
and butterfly guru Marc Minno, Allen Jahner from Wild Birds Unlimited,
Liz Block from Toho Water
Authority, and graduate of the
NWF Habitat Stewards Training, Richard Ford from USDA Soil
Service, and Betsy
Baines, a teacher from Lost Lake Elementary School and
a graduate of the very first Habitat Stewards class. The program
culminated in the installation of the Memory Garden at
the Humane Society of Lake County in Umatilla. This garden has been the dream
of Habitat Steward Skye Milner, and it was very heartwarming to
see it come to life.
Saturday night's "Habitat After Hours" was as
zany as usual with the music and bad jokes from Stuart
Hall, K.Z.Zuckerman (recently voted Lake
County's "Entertainer of the Year") and the
mellow bassmanship of Vic DeGiorgio.
Habitat After Hours is always
a great time to recognize all the good work being done by Habitat
Stewards over the year, and a great time to see how much Bar-B-Que
one can consume without falling down.
We want to thank all those
who gave of their time to make this program a smashing success-
in alphabetical order:
Linda Beebe
Judy Clark
Dan and Terry Cleary
Christie Conk
Chris Parker
Michelle Dent
Ann DeQuevedo
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Melissa
Lynch
Mark Lynch
Jackie Osbun
Joyce and Bill Stefancic
Laurel Temmen
John Thomton |
Chris Parker gets special recognition for her
organization of the volunteers.
Great job!
Also thanks go out to Anna Zacardo for
wireless internet support, Gary Turchin, Mike Kalbac and Brad
Moore of Convergence
for the Plasma Screen, DVD player, and technical support, and to
Crescent Moon Productions for the great lighting
and art direction.
We
would like to also recognize our contributing sponsors; National
Wildlife Federation, Winn-Dixie Stores, Green
Mountain Coffee and
B.B.Brown's
Gardens, as well as those who contributed to the Humane Society
Garden; Lowes, J&S Cypress, Yard
Stop, and HSLC employees.
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| In
Closing |
Sarah Morningstar Strikes Again
On
March 14, Sarah guided her first tour for adults and wowed the
crowd. She didn't know that one person in the group was a retired
4th grade science teacher from Illinois. He gave Sarah an A+ for
her tour. Go Sarah!
Looking forward to seeing you on Saturday. Feel
free to add to the breakfast table. Please RSVP as we will have
a full house for Rosi's
presentation.
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