In this issue:
• Pancake 'n Predators!
• Autumn Changes
• Archimedes on the Road
• Other Education News
• Down to Earth Community Partnership Day
• Wildlife Friendly Fences
• When Birds Can't Fly...
• Thank you!
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Pancake 'n Predators!
Please plan to join us for our first ever pancake fund-raiser ...
This Saturday, September 6th, from 8:00 am to 10:00am, at the new
Applebee's at City View and W 11th in Eugene. Bring friends and
family, meet board members and staff, support some birds, start your
day with pancakes!
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 Autumn Changes
This
time of the year almost always changes the hospital ‘clientele’
abruptly... from the down-shedding, fast-growing orphans to the
heart-breakingly troubled teenagers. Now is when we start to see
our first starvation cases and broken youngsters ... mostly juveniles
encountering problems on their ventures towards independence. I
don’t know which are worse: the fat juvies who are obviously doing well
and seem to have a chance of making it to adulthood - if it weren’t for
that fatal dive into a window (found with prey, also dead, still
clutched in her talons) or the failure to see a fence or waiting a
second too long to avoid a car - or the ones who aren’t being
successful hunters, maybe got separated too soon from the parental
back-up system, but who might just need a second chance.
>> More on hospital cases
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 Archimedes on the Road
Archimedes,
our Snowy owl, took his first road trip today and was a big hit at his
first off-site program, at the Campbell Senior Center. His
premiere performance was for Birds of Oregon, a senior birding group
with whom we have a long relationship. Along with Road Warrior
Lorax, our Great horned owl, Archimedes did a two-hour program, with
Melissa Hart and Jean Daugherty, two of our education team volunteers,
doing the talking! ...
>> more ...
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 Other Education News
This
summer was very active on the education front, with both programs and
general public visitors (we broke all our previous records with 1000
visitors in July alone this year and we tied with last year at 850 in
August!). Kit Lacy, our Education Director, developed a new
Scavenger Hunt program where kids reconstruct clues that they find to
describe habitat, diet, hunting style, and ‘fun facts’ about different
birds. This has been very popular with the many summer camps that
included CRC in their curriculum this year - including all ages of
campers from the YMCA, Eugene, Willamalane, and River Road Parks &
Recreation camps, as well as private groups. Got to keep those
summer camp kids moving!
>> Camps, programs, and new birds!
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 Down to Earth Community Partnership Day
Come help support Cascades Raptor Center at Down to Earth on Sunday, October 26th! Five percent of all sales from both stores
that day will be donated to the Center! Get some early holiday
shopping done, buy yourself that long-coveted special gift, do some
late planting - or just come down to talk to us! Hope to see you
there.
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Wildlife Friendly Fences
Here’s a great new publication by the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department called A Landowner’s Guide to Wildlife Friendly Fences.
If you need fences, but don’t like to hurt the many kinds of ungulates
that need to go over or under them, other mammals who try to go through
them, or birds who seemed to have the hardest time seeing them - this
booklet is for you!
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department
A Landowner’s Guide to Wildlife Friendly Fences ( Adobe Reader required.)
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When Birds Can't Fly...
Last year, we were honored to be selected by some very talented
University of Oregon students for a short documentary on our center and
our work. If you've got five minutes - check out When Birds Can't Fly! It's right on the home page of our website, www.eRaptors.org.
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Thank you!
Thank
you so much to all those who have responded to our summer mailing with
donations, membership or sponsorship contributions. We really so
appreciate your continued support, especially in these troubling
economic times. For those of you interested in donating online,
we have temporarily disabled our online form as we streamline the
process - but it should be back in place soon, much improved and, we
hope, simplified. Thank you for your patience and for continuing
to keep our birds near and dear to your hearts!
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