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Lake Erie Metropark
September 11, 2010 (Saturday) 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Leader: Jim Bull
Meet at the trailhead across from the Marshlands Museum. We will traverse woodlands, boardwalks and observation platforms looking for warblers, other songbirds and migrating water birds. After the bird hike, we will go down to the boat launch to observe the hawk migration for awhile. Some years the number of hawks can be spectacular!
Directions: Take I-75 to Gibraltar Road. Go east toward Gibraltar, turn right on Jefferson and drive south to the park entrance on your left. Metropark entrance fee or sticker required.
Metropolitan Beach Metropark
September 12, 2010 (Sunday) 8:00 a.m.
Leader: Joanna Pease
Hopefully fall migrants aplenty with summer temperatures still a reasonable expectation.
Directions: Take I94 east and exit on Metropolitan Parkway. Drive east into the park and park on the west side of the main parking lot near the Nature Center. Meet at the Center. Metropark entrance fee or sticker required.
Lake Erie Metropark – Hawkfest (no bird hike)
September 18 & 19 2010
All day: 10 am to 4 pm.
Bring your children and enjoy the many games, crafts, talks, demonstrations, displays and live hawks and owls at Hawkfest in and around the Marshlands Museum. Be sure to visit the Detroit Audubon display and bookstore as well as other vendors and get down to the boat launch to view the hawk migration and look at the day’s tally.
Directions: See previous field trip to Lake Erie Metropark
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Safe Passage Great Lakes Welcomes
General Motors
General Motors has joined the Safe Passage Great Lakes program. We would like to recognize them on the Honor Roll at this time. The lights in the GM world headquarters in the Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit are turned off at night to help reduce the significant and dramatic continent-wide death toll of night-migrating birds that crash into tall lighted buildings. GM has also asked other tenants of the Renaissance Center to turn out their
lights or at least to close their blinds at night.
That’s not all. Since 1991, GM personnel have been guided by a list of “General Motors Environmental Principles” directing the corporation to use sound environmental practices in their business decisions. These principles commit GM personnel to actions that “restore and preserve the environment” through reducing waste, conserving resources and recycling materials. They further pledge to “continuously assess the impact of our plants and products on the environment and communities in which we live….”
DAS representatives recently met with Susan Kelsey, Environmental Group Manager of the GM Environmental Compliance Group in Southeast Michigan. At that meeting, Ms. Kelsey stated how pleased GM was to be on the SPGL Honor Roll. She explained how GM puts forth a strong effort to make the grounds of their properties friendly to wildlife and the environment. Also, she is working to get a
Safe Passage type of bird-friendly understanding spread throughout the global GM community.
What good news that is!
DAS is very pleased to know that General Motors is
determined to be environmentally responsible and we
welcome the corporation to our Safe Passage family.
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Rosemarie Attilio
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Autumn at Point Pelee
National Park in Ontario
Join us for the annual DAS fall tent campout.
October 8-10
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Eastern Meadowlark
Photo by Robert Epstein
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