AUDUBON ADVENTURES APPEAL 2010

Our spring appeal for Audubon Adventures is in full swing. This is your invitation to support study of nature and the environment by helping us provide this superb educational program, for children in grades 3 to 6, to teachers in our area free of charge. Teachers tell us that the Audubon Adventures student “newspapers” and supplementary materials do a wonderful job of engaging children’s interest and enthusiasm. The cost for each set of materials, packaged in a sturdy storage box, is $45.65. Contributions are welcome in any amount.
The theme for the 2010/11 school year will be “Migration; wildlife on the move”.
To contribute, please send a check made out to Thorn Creek Audubon Adventures fund, c/o Sue Putnam, 3704 W. 213th St., Matteson, IL.60443 (Be sure to use this address for Sue, not the one in the newsletter, which was incorrect).
Hoping to hear from you, and wishing you a happy spring, bursting with birdsong!
Sue Putnam and Mary Anne McLean, Education committee co-chairs

     TCAS SCHOLARSHIPS!
The TCAS Ecology Scholarship is awarded to a student or a teacher for elementary or secondary education who is interested in attending an environmental workshop or enrolling in a college credit course in environmental studies. They must be in the TCAS area and the scholarship will not exceed $500.
Submit two references, print the application and mail to 20623 Corinth Rd.; Olympia Fields, Il. 60461; Attn: Bob or 201 krotiak Road, Park Forest, Il. 60466, Attn: Joan

         TCAS GRANTS!
The TCAS Grants Committee provides financial support for local projects that promote environmental education and the protection and enhancement of wildlife and the environment. Grants are not to exceed $500 per program and are available to schools and local organizations. Download the 2009 application here and return by October 15, 2009. Good luck to all.

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  BARTEL GRASSLAND ALERT!!
New Interpretive Garden to be dedicated July 24th beginning at 9AM. (Central Ave and Flossmoor Road parking lot).

    GONE BIRDIN !!
TCA meetings and programs are over for the summer, but The first Saturday in August Charlie Habecker takes us junior botanists to Gensburg Prairie in Markham for the peak flower season in Illinois' rarest prairie remnant. Turn north on the first street west of the 159th street MacDonalds of Kedzie. Be there at 9AM to join the usual suspects.

September's meeting program will be led by Dick Riner on the progress and new restorations at Bartel Gassland. October's program will be Professor Glyn Dawson bringing us birds of Tasmania and New Zealand.
Looks like the start to a great new year. Don't miss a minute. Meetings will be the first Wednesday of the month in the new Discovery Center at the Park Forest Aquacenter on Orchard just north of the Library.

RECOMMENDED BIRD SURFING
Have a few spare moments to surf the web? Take them anyway...you don't want to miss these sites. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology All About Birds site is perhaps the best site of its kind for bird identification. While you are there visit the World Series of Birds site on a link.



HAVE A HEALTHY, HAPPY AND PRODUCTIVE SUMMER !!!