CALL NOTE

Published monthly

September through June by the Capital Area Audubon Society PO Box 22065, Lansing MI 48909.

Deadline for submissions: 20th of the month.

2022-2023 CAAS Officers

President Kristy Taylor

Vice President Patricia Deventer

Secretary

Nick Segerson

Treasurer Michael Caterino

Membership Richard Yarsevich

Editor & Facebook Kristy Taylor

Publicity & Hospitality

Field Trip Coordinator

Program Coordinator

Historian

Website

Sandra Conn

Patricia Deventer

Barb Andersen

Sandra Conn

2022-2023 CAAS Board of Directors

Michael Caterino

Sandra Conn

Patricia Deventer

Susan Elbin

Barb Andersen

Nick Segerson

Kristy Taylor

Richard Yarsevich

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Michigan Audubon Website -

Michigan Audubon owns a collection of properties, called bird sanctuaries, in both the upper and lower peninsulas of the state that total over 4,000 acres combined. The network consists of 18 sanctuary properties that total nearly 4,000 acres combined. The habitats we protect and steward include rivers, lakes, marshes, bogs, fens, grasslands, hardwoods, and northern conifer forests. Each property plays a critical role in protecting Michigan native plants and animals, including endangered and threatened species. See a map of our sanctuaries and a full list on the website at michiganaudubon.org

Before Michigan Audubon purchased or received via donation the acreage that now comprises our network of bird and nature sanctuaries throughout the state, we wholly acknowledge that this land is the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg–Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi–Indigenous peoples.

Michigan Audubon supports and actively advocates, through collaborative programs and projects involving wildlife and land conservation, for the sovereignty of Indigenous individuals and communities who live here now, and for those who were forcibly removed from their homeland. By offering this Land Acknowledgement, we affirm Indigenous sovereignty and hold our organizational policies and practices more accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous peoples.

We honor the Anishinaabe and Indigenous Peoples’ connection to this region, to the land itself, and to the balance, harmony, and intrinsic value of the living ecosystem. We offer an abundance of gratitude for the cherished opportunity to conserve these properties in perpetuity, and to care for them with respect, integrity, and best practices.

Michigan Audubon’s properties are managed, restored, and stewarded with land preservation and ecological health and balance as top priorities. For your enjoyment, many of our sanctuaries are also multi-use areas that are open to the public on a year-round basis. Sanctuaries are open from dawn to dusk for “treading lightly” outdoor recreation activities such as hiking, nature study, bird watching, and cross-country skiing.

Capital City Bird Sanctuary

Located on the banks of the Grand River in Delta Township near Lansing, this 63-acre property is an oasis of habitat in an expanding suburban area that attracts spring and fall migrating warblers. Walking paths lead through grasslands, shrub habitats, and along the Grand River.

The sanctuary is adjacent to Hawk Meadow, a Delta Township park, whose land was also donated by Michigan Audubon benefactor, Carl Haussman.

Amenities:

 1.8 miles of easy, mowed hiking trails.

 Parking available at Hawk Meadow; walk across the street for kiosk and main trail head.

 Demonstration native bird garden.

 Nest box trail.