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Refuge Notes

4/25/2015

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We have a new page called Refuge Notes, on the tab Refuge Notes & Visiting. The photo in this first Note will dazzle you.
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Volunteer of the Year!

4/24/2015

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Roger McDaniels receives recognition as Volunteer of the Year from Andrew and Vic.
During a very wonderful outing to Seahorse Key, Roger McDaniels was recognized as Volunteer of the Year.  We all know him to be the Brazilian Pepper-Busting guru/king, but he also gives many other hours to the Refuge. 
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Lower Suwannee and Cedar Keys NWR Volunteer Lunch at Seahorse Key

4/24/2015

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Though many of the Lower Suwannee and Cedar Keys NWR volunteers were not able to attend, about 8 volunteers enjoyed a boat ride out to Seahorse Key and a picnic lunch.  What a perfect day for the outing, with a cooling breeze, blue skies and low humidity.  It was great!  We volunteers want to thank the Refuge staff for the treat and for taking time out of their schedules to honor us with this special day!  
Highlight of the day was seeing Roger McDaniels receive a well deserved “Volunteer of the Year” plaque for all his efforts at organizing the Brazilian Pepper busting team and all his outstanding work attempting to eradicate this tree from the islands and refuge lands.  Good job, Roger! While there, Roger was able to find 4 more small Brazilian Peppers and pulled them up...
A special highlight of the day was getting to see a sleeping cottonmouth snake!  Maria Sgambati told us where we might see one and she was right!  Thanks, Maria!  Thank goodness for my zoom lens!

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Tram Trail Nature Walk

4/23/2015

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We had perfect weather for our last nature walk of the “season”.  It was cool, partly sunny and enough of a breeze to assure a mostly bug free walk for Kit Lane, Debbie Dye and Donna Thalacker.  This new Refuge trail is a beauty!  It passes through many habitats, including a small freshwater swamp, mixed deciduous woods, sandhill pine and through a canopied live oak section where the oaks are big enough to canopy the walk but small enough to see birds foraging in the trees.  We saw and heard many, many birds, including several woodpeckers, a Red-shouldered Hawk, Great-crested Flycatcher,Rufus-sided Towhee, Yellow-throated Vireo, Northern Parula Warbler, Blue-grey Gnatcatcher, Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, Pine Warbler, Carolina Wren, White-eyed Vireo and many more.  Some of the pawpaws are still blooming, as are the Rose Pogonia orchid plants.  My thanks to Frank Morgan for his picture of the Great-crested Flycatcher!
 I hope to see you again in November, when we will resume the nature walks out in the Lower Suwannee NWR,  Shell Mound, the Cedar Key Scrub and new next year, the Cedar Keys NWR!!
Have a great summer!
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Another Great Walk in the Refuge

4/23/2015

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Debbie searches the trees for birds while Donna IDs a plant.
Donna Thalacker led a small group - just Kit Lane and Debbie Dye - on her last Refuge walk before she heads north.  We walked the new "Tram" trail,  about 2 1/2 miles, and saw many birds, plants, flowers, butterflies and two small snakes.  We got a good look at a Northern Parula and  some blooming orchids that Donna had spotted last time she was here.  The bugs weren't a problem until we were discovered by some really huge, biting bug.  If they were deer flies, they were deer flies on steroids!  
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Friends of the Lower Suwannee & Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuges
P. O. Box 532
Cedar Key, FL 32625
friends@friendsofrefuges.org

We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.


  • Home
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      • Current News
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      • Hunting Brochure
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