Kern Audubon Society usually meets on the first
Tuesday of each month at 7PM. After a short period for announcements, introductions, etc., a program is
presented by an outstanding person(s) in the field of conservation, ornithology,ecology, history, or
biology. Generally, the programs are accompanied by Powerpoint, slide, or other media and there is usually
a lively discussion and question and answer period. A list of past speakers is given at the end of this
page.
After the program, there are refreshments, and winning raffle tickets are drawn for prizes such as bird
guides, photographs or posters, nature games, and other items donated by our members. In addition to a
fun time, the raffles are important to our treasury as we re-build our Chapter. September Program Kern Audubon Society "Kern County Birds and Birding " Bob Barnes Bob Barnes has led over two hundred Kern River Valley and Southern Sierra Nevada birding tours. He has also guided numerous individuals, couples, and friends, and spent countless days independently birding the area. Bob wrote the Kern River Valley and Southern Sierra Nevada chapter for the latest edition of the American Birding Association's A Birder's Guide to Southern California (March, 2007). Since 2004, Bob has worked on birding/wildlife tourism development project teams in Missouri, northwestern Nevada, and Pennsylvania. Currently, he is doing birding/wildlife tourism development work for the Southern Nevada Birding and Wildlife Trails Partnership. In 2008, he organized the North American Butterfly Association (NABA) Biennial Meeting that was held in the Kern River Valley; the first time this national meeting was held in California. He also organizes custom tours to Costa Rica and serves on the board of the Kern River Valley Heritage Foundation. Bob heads up a small, non-profit foundation working to sustain the unique cultural and environmental character of rural communities facing rapid development, especially along California's Highway 178 Corridor from Death Valley National Park, through the Kern River Valley, to Bakersfield. PAST PROGRAMS Kern Audubon Society "What a Hoot!" "What A Hoot!" is the May 4, 2010, 7:00pm program of the Kern Audubon Society featuring Burleigh Lockwood, Fresno Zoo Director of Education, who will present a comparison of owls & hawks, their habitats and adaptations with hands-on demonstration. Lockwood is a wildlife biologist with a BS from Cal PolySLO in Environmental Biology and has worked for the US Forest Service while studying the Spotted Owl in the Sierra Nevada. She volunteered with the zoo for 12 years prior to coming on the staff in 1993. The public is invited to the program which is held at the Kern Sup't of Schools, 17 th & L Sts. Bakersfield. Call Ted Murphy (325-0307) for more information.
End of Year GATHERING Tuesday JUNE 1st - DEEP PIT BBQ 5:30- 7:30PM F.A.C.T/Environmental Studies Area at CSUB (Turn north on Runner Drive from Camino Media, then right into the parking lot. Go thru parking lot onto dirt road to the fence.) 5:30 pm - Tours of FACT (Facility for Animal Care & Treatment), Cactus Garden & Desert Tortoise Compound 6:30pm - Catered DEEP PIT BBQ - $10/adults; $5 under 8 Dinner entertainment: Keyboardist ROD LEE Come & enjoy Kern Audubon's Webmaster and talented musician, Rod Lee, at the keyboard providing dinner music and special entertainment...maybe even some requests! Come enjoy a fun evening as we end our program year!
Unless noted otherwise, meetings will be in the Kern Superintendent of Schools
Office at 17th and L Streets. There is free parking on the street or in the parking structure north of the
building. Meetings are open to the public and there is no admission charge.
Bob Barnes
Tuesday September 7th, 2010 - 7:00pm
Location: Kern Sup't of Schools
17th & L Sts., Bakersfield
(Street parking or the KSS lot at 18th & K)
Willow Flycatcher by Tom Munson F&G
Great Grey Owl
Tuesday May 4, 2010 - 7:00pm
Location: Kern Sup't of Schools
17th & L Sts., Bakersfield
(Street parking or the KSS lot at 18th & K)
Burleigh Lockwood
Mike Prather, Birder, Conservationist, "Owens Lake hero", "Wind, Solar, Dust, at Owens Lake...add water and stir",
Greg Warrick, Preserves Manager, "Nature Preserves of Kern County"
Tom Maloney, The Tejon Ranch Conservancy, Executive Director
Kelli Levinson, Kern County coordinator for "North American Birds", Birding Ecuador: A Summer's Journey
Jon Hammond, Tehachapi Mountain Birding Club, Journalist for Tehachapi News, Kawaiisu Indian Language teacher
Jordan Wellwood, Conservation Coordinator Audubon CA,"Protecting California's Birds"
David Pereksta, "Between Science and Magic...The Continuing Searchfor the Ivory-billed Woodpecker"
Barbara Reifel and Ginny Dallas, "Wildlife Destination: The Galapagos"
Kern Audubon Deep Pit Barbecue by Western Kitchen, Music by guitarist Dave Ogden
Dr. Robert Meese, UC Davis research associate, Tri-Colored Blackbirds
Reed Tollefson, Audubon CA manager, Kern River Preserve
Dave Clendenon, preserve ecologist, Wind Wolves Preserve
Josh Bradley, wildlife photographer,"Where the Viewfinder Takers Me"
Dr. Ted Murphy, Co-Chair Kern Audubon, "The San Joaquin Kit Fox"
Kevin Malamaa, an environmental consultant and avid nature photographer."Wildlife in Bolivia"
Alison Sheehey, Nature Ali, "The Big Picture in a Small Frame: the Natural History of Kern County"
Peter Bloom,
raptor biologist, "California Condor Conservation and the Tejon Ranch."
Graham Chisolm,CA Audubon Dir. of Conservation, chair Tejon Ranch Conservancy
Kern Audubon Barbecue and Potluck at FACT, Richard Noel " the Cordeen man" entertained us.
Birgette McDonald, "Birds and Pinipeds of Cape Sheriff, Antartic"
Scott Frazier, "Birding in Peru"
Bob Steele, "Birds of Tropical Australia"
Rob Hansen, environmental consultant, instructor at College of the Sequoias: "Sharing a Vision of the Tulare Lake Basin"
"Kern National Wildlife Refuge" -- Jihadda Govan, refuge biologist
Dr. John Wilson, Wintering Birds of Kern County
Karen Pestana, Bluebird Trail Coordinator for the Tehachapi Birding Club
Bill Moffat, Park Ranger and Preserve Manager: Tule Elk Reserve, Allensworth, and Tejon State Historical
Parks.
Mojave Desert SP
Andrea Jones, IBA Program Coordinator Audubon California.
Don Williams, president, Bakersfield chapter of the Turtle and Tortoise Club.
John Lindsay, Kern Superintendent of Schools Office.
Sanford "Sandy" Wilbur, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (ret.)
Dr. Steve Laymon, Bureau of Land Management.
Mr. Greg Warrick, Center for Natural Lands Management.
Dave Hardt, Manager of Kern and Pixley National Wildlife Refuges.
Reed Tollefson, Manager of the Kern River Preserve in Weldon, CA.
Dr. Maynard Moe, Professor of Biology at California State University, Bakersfield.
Glenn Olson, Audubon California Executive Director.
Larry Saslaw, Bureau of Land Management.
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