To all of those interested in my nature walks and programs:

"Owl Hoot" and an "Owl Toot":
This Friday and Saturday evenings I will be leading an Owl Hoot and an Owl
Toot at Lincoln, then at Mee Kwa Mooks Parks in West Seattle (which is about
one mile south of Alki Pt.). Kathryn True, a local freelance reporter is
doing an article (to be in the Seattle Times this Thursday?) on Jamie Acker
and his work studying owls in the Bainbridge Island area and asked if I
might want to lead an owl hike for the public whose interest in owls is
piqued by the article. I decided to offer 2 hikes, both an owl "hoot" and a
second owl "toot".

I am offering the following 2 programs on my own, (I offer many of my other
programs for the Seattle Parks dept, as and am offering other programs below
for Seattle Parks)

Owl Hoot - Lincoln Park, West Seattle - 5:30 pm - 7pm (or so) Friday,
January 30:
- We will listen and look for owls at Lincoln Park. This is roughly
courtship time and we may observe the duetting, "monkey hollers", wild
screams and bowing associated with courtship of the Barred Owls that live at
Lincoln Park. There is only a small chance of observing other owls there.
We well most likely find a pellet or 2 with a recognizable bones in them.
It will be an easy hike on the flat upper portion of Lincoln with no hills.
We will go until 7pm, but some may stay later if we are having too much fun.

All ages are welcome and I usually orient my walks so that everyone from
little kids to advanced adult naturalists will have a good time and learn a
fair deal. I do ask that adults, kids and parents respect eachother and
their needs..

I am requesting a donation of $1 - $20 to allow me to continue my efforts to
educate the public about nature and infect them with my nature enthusiasm in
order to help build an invigorated movement of nature stewardship and
advocacy. RSVP (206 932-7225 or ecostewart at quidnunc.net) is requested, but
show up if you decide at the last minute to come.

Meet at Lincoln Park's "Rose St Parking Lot" along Fauntleroy Wy at the
kiosk on the west edge of the parking lot, near the center. This lot is the
second lot to the north of the Fauntleroy Ferry dock and about 1/4 mile
north of the ferry area. It is about 1/4 mile south of the 76 gas station
if you are coming from the north.


Owl "Toot" - Mee Kwa Mooks Park - West Seattle:
- We will listen and look for owls at Mee Kwa Mooks Park (about 1 mile south
of Alki Pt.) Most of our big owls hoot. Our smallest owls "toot". We
will focus on finding our smaller owls here. Since the movement of the
Barred Owl into our area, our other forest owls have been in decline and
some populations may have been severely impacted. The arrival and success
of Barred Owls may even be the final straw for the Spotted Owl as a species.

-meet at the entrance to Mee Kwa Mooks Park just south of the port-a-potty
there on the east side of Beach Dr.
-I am requesting a donation of $1 - $20 to allow me to continue my efforts
to educate the public about nature and infect them with my nature enthusiasm
in order to help build an invigorated movement of nature stewardship and
advocacy. RSVP (206 932-7225 or ecostewart at quidnunc.net) is requested, but
show up if you decide at the last minute to come.


The theme of the Mee Kwa Mooks walk will be what we might to to slow and
possibly reverse the decline of our Screech Owls, Spotted Owls (no don't
expect to see any Spotted Owls here) and Great Horned Owls. While we need
to avoid loving our declining owls to death, we also need to increase our
focus on them, knowledge of them and our enthusiasm for them, so that we
become engaged in turning the tide of their decline. I ask that people who
enter the refugia of our declining fauna and flora leave those remaining
refuges of those species in better shape for them than they entered these
areas. I also ask that they leave those experiences with a committment to
live their lives in ways that will do more to benefit these declining
species and ecosystems than they do to harm them. We will all need to
change our ways at least a bit (or change them radically) if we are to turn
the tide of destruction of our natural heritage that most of us would like
to continue to enjoy and to pass on to future generations.

I am offering the following upcoming programs through the Seattle Department
of Parks and Recreation
pre-register for my Seattle Parks Dept programs at 206 684-7434 (Camp Long)
or on line (link below) - pre-payment is requested. you can also
pre-register on-line by going to the Seattle Department of Parks and
Recreation website::

Owl Hoot - Camp Long (West Seattle) Saturday, February 14 - 4:30 pm - 6:00
pm - (Seattle Parks Progams pre-registristration instructions above)

Salamander Love Night - Camp Long - Saturday, Feb. 14 - 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm -
(Seattle Parks Progams pre-registristration instructions above)

Owl Hoot - Camp Long - Saturday, March 7th - 5 pm - 6:30 pm (Seattle Parks
Progams pre-registristration instructions above)

Salamander Search - Camp Long - Saturday, March 14th 1:30 pm - 3 pm (Seattle
Parks Progams pre-registristration instructions above)
A list of all upcoming nature related events offered by the Seattle Parks
Dept is on this website below, but confusingly they have arbitrarilly put
them into categories of "plants", "animals", "nature walks" and "nature
walks - pre-school / Tots". My programs are typically focused both on the
plants and the animals and are normally nature walks and all ages are
typically welcome. I do occasionally offer the specifiallly tot oriented
programs through the Parks Dept. Maybe I should offer some programs that are
more specifically adult oriented, but I find I can make programs reasonably
interesting for both adults and kids at the same time.
<http://class.seattle.gov/parks/Activities/Activities.asp?SCheck=757881027&S
DT=39781.3889424768&sectionId=16>
-Stewart
Stewart Wechsler
Ecological Consulting
West Seattle
206 932-7225
ecostewart at quidnunc.net

-Advice on the most site-appropriate native plants
and how to enhance habitat for the maximum diversity
of plants and animals
-Educational programs, nature walks and field trips
-Botanical Surveys




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