| Sunday 11/9/08 |
1:00 PM | Monthly Meeting - Pot Luck at Tropicana Mobile Park. 16731 McGregor Blvd., Fort Myers. Bring a covered dish as well as your own table setting including plates: both lunch and dessert, cup, cutlery etc. [Map] |
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| Monday 11/10/08 |
8:00 AM | Corkscrew
Swamp Sanctuary. I-75 Exit 111 (Old Exit 17) - Left on CR 846,
approx. 17 miles - Left on CR 849. Meet in parking lot. Fee $5.00
for National Audubon members. [Map]
[Website]
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H. & C. Johnstone |
| Saturday 11/15/08 | 8:30 AM | STA -5
Directions To Storm Treatment Area (STA)5: * From Immokalee: Continue east on C.R. 846 (Immokalee Rd.) in to Hendry County. Turn right (east) at the intersection with C.R. 833 and drive to the intersection with C.R. 835 (signed). Turn left. Stay on C.R. 835 to Blumberg Road (watch for the big communication tower) and turn right (south). Continue another 9 miles to the STA-5 turnoff (dirt road). Go south for 2-1/2 miles on the dirt road to the STA-5 entrance gate. Park before the gate in the area to the right (map below). ***** Click Here for Important Additional Trip Information ***** Click Here for STA-5 Bird List You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to view and print-out the bird list. The Acrobat Reader is available free at Adobe's website. Reminders: Bring sunscreen, water, lunch/snacks. A spotting scope is very helpful. Wear hats and closed-toe shoes. Tour-participants must stay on the levee. We are allowed to drive around the levee. There is a port-o-let on site. All participants must sign a liability release upon arrival. Lunch on your own. |
V. Lucas (239) 514-7512 or vplucas@comcast.net |
| Monday 11/17/08 | 8:00 AM | Oil Pad Road and Big Cypress Bend Boardwalk.
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Vince Lucas |
| Monday 11/24/08 | 8:00 AM | Babcock -Webb W.M.A. [Map#1][Map#2] I-75 Exit 158 (Old Exit 27) then right to parking lot. Car pool with Licensed Resident Florida Senior Driver to avoid fee ($3.00 per person or $6.00 per car.) NOTE: LIMIT OF 10 CARS AND 40 PEOPLE TOTAL. |
I. McQuistan M. Schafer |
| Monday 12/01/08 | 8:00 AM | Bunche Beach, & Lakes Park. Meet at Bunche Beach parking lot at end of John Morris Rd.[Map] Lunch at Lakes Park.[Map]. Note: Lakes Park is a Lee County park, parking is 75¢ an hour or $3.00 per day. |
J & M Gieryic |
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Monday 12/08/08 |
8:00 AM | Pine Island (details tba) |
P.Gladstone |
| Sunday 12/14/08 |
2:00 PM | Monthly Meeting at Tropicana Mobile Park. 16731 McGregor Blvd., Fort Myers. [Map] | |
| Monday 12/15/08 |
Christmas Bird Count WE NEED HELP PLEASE! |
D. Davis D. Mohr |
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| Monday
12/22/08
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8:00 AM | Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve [Map]. Meet at parking lot. This is a Lee County Park and there is a parking fee of $3.00 all day. County and volunteer stickers work as well. |
J. Turner C. Hampton |
| Monday 12/29/08 | 8:00 AM
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Ding
Darling N.W.R. [Map]
& [Website]
and Bailey Tract [Map].
To carpool, meet at 7:30 in parking lot at The Country Inn, on the corner of Summerlin Road and Shell Point Blvd. Meet at the Visitor's Center at Ding Darling N.W.R. at 8:00am. |
G. Hadwen
I. Gotti R.M. Hackney
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| 01/05/09 | 8:00 AM | Oscar Scherer State Park, Laurel Landfill | G Schmidt |
| Sunday 01/11/09 | 2:00 PM | Monthly Meeting at Tropicana Mobile Park. 16731 McGregor Blvd., Fort Myers. [Map] | |
| Monday 01/12/09 |
8:00 AM | Little Estero Lagoon (Fort Myers Beach) and Bowditch Point Park. Meet at Villa Santini Plaza (diagonally across from Holiday Inn on Estero Blvd.) [Map] Lunch at Bowditch Point Park. $1.00/hr parking. | P. Gresham J. Tinson |
| Monday 01/19/09 | 8:00 AM | Tigertail Beach [Map] & Marco Island locales. Meet at parking lot. Fee $3.00. Afterwards, we'll check on Burrowing Owl sites [Map] & bird Mackle Park [Map] and have lunch there. | R. Stanton |
| Sun-Mon-Tue 1-26/27/09 |
8:00 AM |
Wakulla Springs State Park St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge |
J & D Davis D. Mohr |
| Monday 02/02/09 |
8:00 AM | "Birding the Punta Gorda Area." Meet at Publix at the Del Tura Shopping Plaza on U.S. Rte. 41 in North Fort Myers. The Del Tura Shopping Plaza is 3 1/2 miles north of the Shell Factory. [Map] We'll search for ducks at the Aqui Esta Ponds, [Map], as well as the canals along West Marion Ave. (including searching for Burrowing Owls) and Ponce De Leon Park. [Map] Lunch at Ponce De Leon Park. If time permits, we can also check-out likely waterfowl & shorebird spots along the Peace River. | J.
Winters |
| Sunday 02/08/09 | 2:00 PM | Monthly Meeting at Tropicana Mobile Park. 16731 McGregor Blvd., Fort Myers. [Map] | |
| Monday 02/09/09 | 8:00 AM | Sarasota Celery
Fields & vicinity including Myakka River.
Meet at Ackerman Park [Map] off of I-75, Exit 210 (aka Old Exit 39 aka Fruitville Rd. aka S.R. 780). Count starts here. |
M & F Yorkston |
| 02/16/09 | 8:00 AM | Cape Coral | E. Elms J. Harvey |
| Monday 2/23/09 | 6:00 AM or 8:00 AM | Brooksville
Area Croom-Rital Road This is a three hour trip. Both meeting times will be at the Cracker Barrel at the SE Corner of the I/75 / SR-50 interchange in Hernando County. There are plenty of rooms for overnight available at the interchange. The early time is to get American Woodcock doing their mating display. Several great natural areas along Croom/Rital Road have been preserved and are great birding. |
F. Fontaine |
| Monday 03/02/09 | 8:00 AM | Kirby
Storter/Loop Road. Meet at Kirby Storter parking area along US 41.[Map] The Kirby Storter Boardwalk is located approximately 6.5 miles east of Turner River Rd. on the south side of U.S. Rte. 41 in the Big Cypress National Preserve near Monroe Station in Collier County. It is approximately 8 miles west of the Oasis Visitor's Center. Click [Here] for an "official" map of Big Cypress National Preserve. You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to view and print-out the application. The Acrobat Reader is available free at Adobe's website. |
J & C Steege |
| Sunday 03/08/09 | 1:00 PM | Annual Meeting at Tropicana Mobile Park. 16731 McGregor Blvd., Fort Myers. [Map] Pot Luck Dinner. Bring a covered dish to share, and your own silverware and dish. Ice tea, and coffee will be provided. In addition to being the final meeting of the year with election of officers. | |
| Monday 03/09/09 | 8:00 AM | Devil's Garden (Alvah's Alley). Meet at Barron Park, [Map] LaBelle. Carpool a MUST! -- Bring Lunch. Lunch at Cannon Hammock Park. (FYI - optional carpooling, meet at the Six Mile Cypress Parkway entrance at the WalMart shopping center at Six Mile and Colonial at 7am to carpool to Barron Par | V. McGrath |
| Monday 03/16/09 | See notes |
STA-1, Green Cay Wetlands, Loxahatchee NWR.
Meet @ 6:30 AM at the Cypress Trace Shopping Center (NW corner of
Cypress Lake Drive and Route 41, South Fort Myers) [Map
] and at 6:45 AM at the Cracker Barrel, North Fort Myers. [Map]
Please note that the bus
LEAVES at the times posted above. Please plan on being there
earlier so as not to delay the bus schedule.
The cost for the bus will be announced. Checks are payable to the Caloosa Bird Club and may be sent or given to R. Woodall Participants should bring a sack lunch and enough money for dinner at a buffet restaurant. The bus will return to Fort Myers around 8:00 PM. |
N. Fisher
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| Monday 03/23/09 | 8:00 AM | Alva area birding. We will visit the White's feeders [Map] & Caloosahatchee Regional Park [Map]. Meet at the Franklin Locks parking lot [Map] on the SOUTH side of the Caloosahatchee off of S.R.80. The parking lot is reached by leaving I-75 at Exit 141 and traveling east on S.R.. 80 for approximately 7 miles. Caloosahatchee Regional Park (which is on the north side of the Caloosahatchee off of S.R. 78) is a Lee County Park. Parking is 75¢ an hour or $3.00 per day. Bring a lawn chair for bird viewing at the White's. | L & L White |
| Monday 03/30/09 | 8:00 AM | Naples
birding: Eagle Lakes Community Park [Map]
[Bird Checklist*] and Sugden Regional Park
[Map].
Meet at Eagle Lakes, 1 mile west of Routes 41 and 951. *You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to view and print-out the bird check list. The Acrobat Reader is available free at Adobe's website. |
L. Brennan
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| Monday 04/06/09 | TBA | ||
| Monday 04/13/09 | 8:00 AM | Sanibel Lighthouse [Map]. Meet at the beachside parking lot. Parking rates at Sanibel Lighthouse are $2.00 an hour with no daily maximum! | V. McGrath |
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