Dear Reader,

We had a great time at the Lincoln City Cultural Center celebrating our 18th birthday last month. Thank you to everyone who came! Forty five members and non-members enjoyed great food and friendship. Speaker Cameron Cox was entertaining and we all enjoyed the time to get to know each other better! Our birthday cake, made by local bakery My Petite Sweet, was beautiful and tasty!

While you were there, we hope you had a chance to check out the Bird Bricks at the Plaza in Lincoln City! Thanks to you, we raised $5,000 toward the beautiful brick walkway. Visit the Plaza and use our fun checklist to locate all of the 47 bricks with our local birds on them! More info…

DECEMBER EVENTS

8th (Friday), 9-11am: EXPLORIENCE Taft Waterfront and Siletz Bay! We will meet at the Taft Waterfront Parking lot on SW 51st (look for our ASLC sign). More info…

19th (Tuesday), 6:30pm: Naturalist Presentation: Purple Martins in Lincoln County

Join Eric Horvath, a local naturalist and tour guide, to learn about our Purple Martins. Purple Martins are related to swallows and nest colonially in artificial boxes on pilings in Yaquina and Siletz Bay. Eric will show photos of these birds, present data on their population trend locally, and describe their nesting ecology. The meeting will be at the OSU Extension Lincoln County, 1211 SE Bay Blvd in Newport.

CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNTS

You can be part of the oldest Community Science effort in the United States! We have three Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) in our area - Tillamook Bay, Lincoln City, and Yaquina Bay. If you live in one of the count circles, you can participate from your own backyard. If not, contact the coordinator to see about joining one of our teams!

Tillamook Bay CBC Saturday December 16, contact Allison Anholt at allison.anholt@gmail.com
Lincoln City CBC Sunday December 17, contact me at aslc@lincolncityaudubon.org
Yaquina Bay CBC Friday December 29, contact Kai Frueh kaifrueh2@gmail.com

More info...

WE ARE HIRING!

We're excited to have received funding to help us as we grow. Part of the funding enables us to hire a new, part-time Development Coordinator to help us develop a sustainable funding base. Duties include identifying and managing grant opportunities, enhancing individual giving, and developing a planned giving program. This position will average 10 hours/week at $20/hour and is funded for three years. Applicants must live in Lincoln or Tillamook Counties. Applications are open until December 31, 2023, interviews will begin in January 2024, and the successful candidate will start on February 1, 2024. More info…

ARE YOU READY TO VOLUNTEER?

We are looking for a few motivated folks who love birds and nature and are willing to serve on our ASLC Board of Directors. We meet monthly on the second Thursday. Meetings are held at our office in Lincoln City but are also hybrid so you don’t need to travel. If you’re interested, please let me know!

If you’d like to volunteer, but not as a Board member, we have many other opportunities from one-time to ongoing, so just let us know what interests you.

OREGON COAST BIRDCAST

Remember our fantastic podcasts? This was an informative and exciting experience for us as ASLC, and we’re sad that our podcast host, Paul Lask, was unable to continue to host them. We’re looking for a new host! If you’re interested in finding out more, please email me! You can check out prior podcasts here or look for Oregon Coast BirdCast wherever you get your podcasts.

WILLAMETTE VALLEY BIRD SYMPOSIUM

We would like to send two members to the Willamette Valley Bird Symposium in Corvallis, Saturday, February 3, 2024. The Symposium is from 9am to 4pm and is held at the CH2M Hill Alumni Center on the Oregon State University campus. The Symposium features graduate students talking about their research projects and demonstrating exciting new techniques and equipment for field studies.

Our Audubon chapter will take care of registration and pay for admission for two members selected to be our guests. All you have to do to qualify is reply to this email letting me know you’d like to participate. If we have more than two members interested, selection will be done by random drawing. Several of our board members will be attending and we’re excited to be able to extend this invitation as a special promotion to our members! More symposium info…

MEMBER SURVEY

WE NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU. Please take a few minutes and fill out this simple survey to help us as we engage in the process of rebranding. It should only take a few moments and will really help us as we work through our next steps. Thank you for continuing to support and encourage us!

THIS YEAR, GIVE THE GIFT OF WINGS!

As you consider your gift list this holiday season, consider giving a membership to the Audubon Society of Lincoln City (ASLC). Every membership supports our monthly bird walks with expert guides, our newsletter The Kingfisher, educational programs, community science, and conservation efforts to protect Oregon’s wildlife and habitat. And until January 31, 2024 - new, gift, or upgraded membership ($50 minimum) also includes a set of our bird stickers with images by our own certified natural science illustrator, Nora Sherwood. More info…

That’s the news for this month - let's keep working together for birds and nature!

dawn villaescusa, President

Audubon Society of Lincoln City

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