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The Limpkin Times
Apalachee Audubon Society Mission Statement:
Protecting the rich biodiversity of the Florida Panhandle through education, appreciation, and conservation.
January 2025
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Happy New Year! Hope this finds you enjoying our local bird life, whether they’re in your yard, parks, or wilderness areas. No program this month, but save the date for February 20 and come out for a presentation by our local birding phenom, Juli deGrummond on providing a buffet for your yard birds!
HELP! Requesting Host Yards: I have a huge favor to ask. All of our candidate yards that were tentatively scheduled for next month’s Wildlife-Friendly Yard Tour have canceled. Without any yards to visit, we obviously won’t be able to put on this year’s fundraiser and learning experience.
If you have a yard that features native plant gardens and bird feeders that you are willing to make available from 10 AM to 4 PM on Saturday, February 15, 2025, please contact our yard tour coordinator, Tammy Brown. We’ll provide volunteers to help with your hosting duties.
Tammy’s contact info is 850-933-8154, tcbrown798@aol.com.
AAS T-Shirts Available in new colors: Our first batch of t-shirts has all but completely sold (there are a few blue tees left), but we just purchased another batch in two new colors—Heather Redwood and Light Olive. To order a t-shirt email Juli deGrummond at juli1321@yahoo.com.
Looking for Program Speakers: At this time, we do not have any program speakers for the March or April programs. If you have any speaker suggestions, please email ApalacheeAudubon@gmail.com.
Kathleen Carr
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Hickory Preserve Celebration
Date: Sunday, January 19, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM / Land Tours
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM / Celebration
Location: Miccosukee Land Co-op
9623 Land Co-Op Road Tallahassee, FL 32309 (map)
It's official: Hickory Preserve, with the support of their donors, has finally purchased the 97 acres they have been working hard to save for the last year and a half! Join them to celebrate and learn about their ongoing efforts to pay off and conserve the land.
They will have live music by the Bunny Bread Bandits, delicious vegan and chicken paella made fresh on-site, and tours of the Hickory Preserve land.
Click here for more information and to RSVP.
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Young Birders Walk at Lake Jackson Mounds
Date: Saturday, January 25, 2025
Time: 8:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: Lake Jackson Mounds Archeological Park (map)
Click here to register via Mobilize. Limited to 15 people. For young people 5 years of age and older.
Juli deGrummond will lead a young birders walk through the trails at Lake Jackson Mounds Archeological State Park. If you do not have an annual park pass, the per vehicle fee is $3 and can be paid at the park or online at their website, linked here.
| Participants at the December Duck Tour led by Don Morrow. St. Marks NWR. | |
Guided Bird Walk at Lake Jackson Mounds
Date: Sunday, January 26, 2025
Time: 8:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: Lake Jackson Mounds Archeological Park (map)
Click to register via Mobilize. Limited to 15 people.
Juli deGrummond will lead a bird walk through the trails at Lake Jackson Mounds Archeological State Park. If you do not have an annual park pass, the per vehicle fee is $3 and can be paid at the park or online at their website, linked here.
A significant site to earlier populations of Native Americans, it offers a variety of habitats that have attracted at least 147 species of birds over the years. Click to view eBird list.
The nature trail winds through a sandhill community, passing many native trees and plants. The remnants of an 1800s grist mill may be seen along the trail.
Meet up at 8:15 AM to sign the Liability Waiver. The walk will begin shortly thereafter.
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Date: Saturday, February 1, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Lake Elberta Park (map)
Join us in keeping this beautiful ecosystem healthy! Click to sign up with Mobilize.
Kayakers and canoeists are welcome and needed, but we ask that you bring your life jackets!
Gloves, trash bags, and other supplies provided.
Water provided, but please bring your own reusable water bottle.
Additional parking is available on FAMU Way, close to Stearns St. There's also a 20-spot parking lot off of the roundabout at FAMU Way and Robert and Trudie Perkins Way (just west of Stearns St.). It’s about a 3-minute walk from the parking lot to the Stearns St. entrance of the park.
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WHO Festival
Date: Saturday, February 1, 2025
Time: 10 AM - 3 PM
Location: St. Marks Refuge Visitor Center
1255 Lighthouse Rd, St Marks, FL 32355 (map)
There will be exhibits, demonstrations, games, crafts, food, and music.
There is a $5 per car entrance fee.
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Date: Sunday, February 2, 2025
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: See below for more information.
Click to register via Mobilize.
Join us on Ground Hog Day for the February Birds & Brews at Southwood!
We'll meet in the parking lot behind El Jalisco Southwood and walk down Green Ivy Trail to reach the nature trail. We'll have our hour of birding and then go back to El Jalisco for dinner. Extra binoculars are available. Hope to see you there!
The restaurant is at the top of the map, parking is in the middle behind it, and the entrance to the trail is at the bottom after crossing Grove Park Drive. Click here for a map.
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Wildlife-Friendly Yard Tour
Date: February 15, 2025
Pending recruitment of hosts.
If you have a yard that features native plant gardens and bird feeders that you are willing to make available from 10 AM to 4 PM on Saturday, February 15, 2025, please contact our yard tour coordinator, Tammy Brown. We’ll provide volunteers to help with your hosting duties.
Tammy’s contact info is 850-933-8154, tcbrown798@aol.com.
| Feeder station with multiple feeder types and foods—black oil sunflower seeds and whole peanuts in tube feeders, Bark Butter Bits in a bowl feeder, hanging wire suet feeder, safflower seeds in a tray feeder, and dried mealworms in a re-purposed oriole jelly feeder. | |
Date: Thursday, February 20, 2025
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: King Life Sciences (map)
Wondering how to attract different species of birds to your yard—Eastern Bluebirds, woodpeckers, warblers, orioles, and tanagers? Juli deGrummond will speak about how to bring different birds to your yard with a variety of foods and feeders.
Join us at FSU’s King Life Sciences building, with free parking available in the Psychology parking lot. See below for important information about where to park to avoid being ticketed or towed.
Click to register via Mobilize. This will help us in planning and you will receive timely reminders before the event.
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IMPORTANT PARKING INFORMATION!
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FSU has directed us to park in the Psychology Building’s parking lot east of the King Building. To access this lot, take Call Street east from Stadium Drive, turn right on Psychology Way, and go through the open gate to the parking lot east of the King Building. Go through either set of glass doors on the ground floor to the open foyer outside the meeting room. See map to parking lot below.
Navigate to parking lot on Google Maps.
| Overwintering male Summer Tanager enjoying some bark butter. Tanagers also love suet and grape jelly. | Seasonal overlap—a wintering Yellow-rumped Warbler at an oriole jelly feeder and newly arrived Ruby-throated Hummingbird, regarding one another in this March 2023 photo. | Joining the Audubon Society helps your local, state, and national organization. Visit www.Apalachee.org/Join to learn how to join. | Apalachee Audubon Society always has various volunteering opportunities, from helping out at Lake Elberta Park to representing our organization at tabling events. See our Volunteer page for a layout of our volunteer opportunities and check the Events of Interest page for specific volunteer events. | Your donations make our programs, birding trips, clean ups, internships, advocacy and many of the other successes of our organization possible. If you have a favorite Apalachee Audubon project, you can always earmark your donation. Learn how to donate by check or PayPal on AAS’s Donation webpage. | |
BOARD OF DIRECTORS: 2024-2025
Officers
President: Kathleen Carr
Vice President: VACANT
Treasurer: Harvey Goldman
Secretary: James Carr
Directors
Tyler Dearing
Cosby Painter Hayes
Noel Robinson
Kristin Cohea
Juli deGrummond
Kristan Godbeer
Ben Rangel
Rebecca Wall
Student Director
Lucas Pittman
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