ANIMALS: LINDSAY WILDLIFE MUSEUM -- Walnut Creek, CA -- April Newsletter

Posted:  22 Apr 14

• 1931 First Ave, Walnut Creek, CA 94597
• 925-935-1978

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Lindsay Wildlife Museum -- Dinner, Drinks, Auction -- Walnut Creek, 9/8/SUN/5pm

Posted:  20 Aug 13

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Lindsay Wildlife Museum 

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Join us for an evening at Va de Vi Bistro & Wine Bar Sunday, September 8 at 5 pm Mark your calendar for a delightful evening at Va de Vi Bistro & Wine Bar in Walnut Creek. Enjoy fine food, fine wine, and fine company in Va de Vi's beautifully appointed courtyard under an ancient oak tree. The evening will include dinner, drinks, and the opportunity to bid on unique items at an auction to benefit Lindsay Wildlife Museum. Be sure to bring your checkbook! Make your reservations Reservations are $100 per person. For reservations visit our website or call 925-627-2950 This event benefits Lindsay Wildlife Museum. Proceeds will help fund the rehabilitation and education programs at the museum. Nan and John Walz and the partners of Va de Vi look forward to seeing you there. Located in the heart of downtown Walnut Creek at 1511 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Va de Vi is between Tiffany and Tommy Bahama. Ample parking is available. For directions go here.

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Lindsay Wildlife Museum - March 2013

Posted:  18 Mar 13


On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Lindsay Wildlife Museum <Lindsay_Wildlife_Museum@mail.vresp.com> wrote:

Lindsay Wildlife Museum

Wildlife Connections :: March 2013

Connecting people with wildlife to inspire responsibility and respect for the world we share. What's in this issue? Spring babies New veterinarian Classes & camps Gary Bogue talk Earth Day every day Art & photo exhibit Media sponsor Quick links Donate today Museum hours Upcoming classes What's happening Volunteer opportunities Stay connected Subscribe Send to a friend View in browser Donate your used car Do you have a used and unwanted car? Consider making it a tax-deductible donation to Lindsay Wildlife Museum to benefit our rehabilitation and educational programs. For more information visit our website. Many thanks to our annual sponsors Buena Vista Energy, LLC Chevron City National Bank Cole European East Bay Nature Green Ridge Power, LLC Heller Jewelers Jelly Belly John Kikuchi and Debra Coggins Livingston Law Firm Main Street Research, LLC Mark Brown, Bank of America Merrill Lynch Wealth Management Banking Mechanics Bank Michael Stead Porsche PG&E Royal Motors Sloat Brothers Ltd. Tesoro Golden Eagle Refinery Walnut Creek Magazine Wells Fargo Advisors You are receiving this email from Lindsay Wildlife Museum because you are one of our supporters. To ensure that you continue to receive emails from us, add socialmedia@wildlife-museum.org to your address book. If you no longer wish to receive these emails at santacruz01pca@gmail.com, simply click on the unsubscribe link below.

New Vet, New Classes, New Art & Photo Exhibit Spring Babies in the Wildlife Hospital Animal babies are vulnerable, and most can’t survive in the wild without a parent to feed them. Baby hummingbirds separated from their mother, or knocked to the ground by a storm or tree trimming, require round-the-clock attention when they’re brought to our wildlife hospital. For the youngest babies, that means a feeding every 20 or 30 minutes. Gary Ranz knows firsthand what feeding a hungry hummingbird is like. As a specially trained hospital volunteer, he provides care for baby hummingbirds at his home. Ranz has loved birds since he was a little boy, but there weren’t a lot of hummingbirds where he grew up in rural southern Illinois. During normal waking hours, Ranz feeds his tiny charges syringe after syringe of protein/nectar mix (the protein comes from squished bugs). Luckily, the feedings aren’t required around the clock. “They’re good babies,” he says. “They sleep through the night.” As the babies begin to fly more and more, Ranz moves them into a large cage, then to an outside aviary at his house. Many people think hummingbirds fly constantly, but they do rest, Ranz has observed. When they’re ready to be released, they are returned to their original habitat or as close as possible to where they were found. Besides hummingbirds, baby squirrels, raccoons, opossums and owls receive home care from Lindsay hospital volunteers. What are the most important traits a volunteer needs for home care? "Patience," says Ranz. "Routine, persistence in caring, and optimism." Meet Our New Veterinarian Dr. Serena Brenner Dr. Serena Brenner has been appointed as Lindsay Wildlife Museum's new director of veterinary services. A fifth-generation San Franciscan, she earned her Doctor of Veterinary Science from UC Davis and worked most recently for San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences on the temporary ostrich exhibit. Prior to receiving her DVM, she earned her Master's degree in avian sciences from UC Davis, realizing her dream of being able to work with birds professionally. Dr. Brenner spent time in Tenerife, Spain, working with some of the most endangered and rare bird species in the world such as the Spix macaw and the Harpy eagle. She has worked with all kinds of animals from tigers to penguins, chinchillas to condors, sharks to alligators. Dr. Brenner started working and caring for wild and captive animals as a high school student intern, tube feeding penguin chicks at the Steinhart Aquarium and then volunteering at Wildcare, caring for opossums and birds. She volunteered at the San Francisco Zoo's Bald Eagle Recovery program by assisting the staff with the routine exams of the eagles. She feels fortunate to be able to work at Lindsay Wildlife Museum with native wildlife and with such a talented, hard-working staff and team of dedicated volunteers. New Classes and Camps See you Saturdays! Have you always wanted to bring the kids to a class at Lindsay Wildlife Museum but couldn't do a weekday? For the first time, we are now offering Saturday classes! Our next three-week class runs April 13-27. The Water Explorations class lets young children have fun discovering the mysteries of water and solutions, and get a little wet in the process! Classes are 10-11 AM for age 2.5-5 with an adult, and 3-4:30 PM for age 4-6 (and teacher's helpers age 9-14). Planning your calendar for spring and summer vacations? Camp and animals are a great combination to keep kids learning. Even the youngest children become scientists and engineers at our spring break Mini Camps, Tuesday through Thursday, April 2-4, from 1-3 PM. Younger campers age 4-6 explore Science Experiments about bubbling chemicals, forces of motion and animals. At Animals & Engineering camp, 7-11 year-olds practice design and problem-solving skills with hands-on challenges and a new topic each day. Simultaneous sessions are also available for teacher's helpers aged 12-16. The learning and fun continue at our Wild Times Summer Science Camp in four weeklong sessions: Dino Mania, June 24-28, 1-3:30 PM for age 4-6; Animal Habitats, July 8-12, 1-4:30 PM for age 6-9; Body Shop (wildlife care), July 22-26, 1-4:30 PM for age 9-12; and Animal Senses, July 29-Aug 2, 1-4:30 PM for age 6-9. Check out all our offerings in the new Program Guide. Get your copy at the museum, download it from our website, or search classes for online registration at http://wildlife-museum.org. Gary Bogue Talk Creatures of the Urban Wilderness Wildlife expert and Curator Emeritus Gary Bogue will speak about “Creatures of the Urban Wilderness (your backyard)“ on Monday, April 15 at 9:30 AM at Lindsay Wildlife Museum. He will talk about the wild animals that live in and prowl, fly, and slither around your backyard, day and night—the coyotes, raccoons, skunks, opossums, owls, hawks, hummingbirds, snakes, lizards and other creatures that interact with you and have become a part of your life, often without you even knowing they are there. Bogue is the author of seven books and was the daily Pet and Wildlife Columnist for 42 years for Bay Area News Group’s Contra Costa Times. His talk is sponsored by Lindsay Wildlife Museum Alliance. Tickets to the brunch event are $25 per person. To purchase tickets, contact Penny Adams at 925-837-4046, P.O. Box 562, Diablo, CA 94528, or call the museum at 925-935-1978. Earth Day Every Day Hometown Happenings Earth Day is every day at Lindsay Wildlife Museum. In celebration of Earth Day in April, during two weeks of on-air and online promotion, KKDV Radio will broadcast a taped interview with Executive Director Loren Behr as part of their “Helping Your Hometown” series. They will also air “Hometown Happenings” announcements, highlighting the free opening reception for the Mount Diablo art and photography exhibit. During live drive-time broadcasts they will give away passes to the museum. We greatly appreciate KKDV Radio’s support of Lindsay Wildlife Museum's work. Mount Diablo Art Exhibit Visions & Vistas Stunning panoramic photos and paintings of Mount Diablo, close-ups of mountain wildlife, children’s art activities, and a live animal encounter will all be part of the free, public opening for our new Mount Diablo: Visions & Vistas exhibit. The free reception on Friday, April 26 from 5:30 to 7:30 PM kicks off the exhibit of original art and photography, which runs through Labor Day cosponsored by Save Mount Diablo. (Entry to the museum during the opening reception will be to the Mount Diablo exhibit only.) The exhibit’s artists and photographers capture Mount Diablo’s ever-changing face, from veiled in fog to snowcapped to glowing at sunset. Animals depicted in the exhibit include hawk, woodpecker, owl, lizard and butterfly. From Thursday, April 25 through Monday, September 2, entry to Mount Diablo: Visions and Vistas is free with general admission to Lindsay Wildlife Museum. Some works from the exhibit will be available for purchase throughout the run. The exhibit will not be open weekdays during museum camp weeks June 24-28, July 8-12, July 22-26 and July 29-Aug. 2. Photo credit: Barn Owl by Jennifer Capra Thanks to Diablo Magazine Special thanks to Diablo Magazine for sponsoring the Mount Diablo: Visions & Vistas exhibit.

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Lindsay Wildlife Museum - December 2012

Posted:  21 Dec 12

Lindsay Wildlife Museum

It's a Wild Life :: December, 2012

Connecting people with wildlife to inspire responsibility and respect for the world we share. Gary Bogue was the museum's Curator in the late 1960s and 1970s, and long-time wildlife columnist for the Contra Costa Times, recently retired. Spread the Word If you'd like to get monthly copies of Gary's "It's a Wild Life" delivered to your friends or family members for them to enjoy, get them a Lindsay Wildlife Museum membership! Quick Links » Donate today » Join Lindsay Wildlife Museum » Museum homepage Stay Connected » Subscribe » View in browser You are receiving this email from Lindsay Wildlife Museum because you are one of our supporters. To ensure that you continue to receive emails from us, add socialmedia@wildlife-museum.org to your address book. If you no longer wish to receive these emails at santacruz01pca@gmail.com, simply click on the unsubscribe link below.

Have a very beastly Christmas Which wild animals mean Christmas to you? The arrival of migrating birds always puts me in the holiday spirit. The sound of a screaming red-shafted flicker announcing its presence from my backyard (see photo at left), along with the arrival of winter ... the faint honking of high-flying geese tickling my fancy ... white-crowned and golden-crowned sparrows hopping around my backyard garden boxes, the bobbing of their heads against a background of dark, wet earth as they peck for seeds makes it look like their head-markings are winking on and off like little gold and white Christmas tree lights ... goldfinches clinging to the sides of my bird feeders all merry and bright ... Ho-ho-ho, have a very beastly Christmas everyone! Creatures of the Urban Wilderness (your backyard) :: Robins & red berries Do robins get "drunk" from eating pyracantha berries? They sometimes look that way. Stumbling around on the ground and bumping into things. Taking off in an explosion of orange breasts and wild wings and crashing into nearby windows and each other. But just because they look inebriated doesn't make it so. Fresh ripe red berries are a good food source for wild birds and other creatures, but they are full of sugar and other nutrients ... and NOT alcohol. When a flock of hungry robins lands in a pyracantha bush, they attack the berries in a feeding frenzy, competing with each other to see who can eat the most berries. They gorge and stuff their crops, getting a sudden sugar "high," and become completely top-heavy in the process. If something frightens them, forcing a sudden takeoff, they stagger into the air, off balance from their overloaded crops, smashing into things and wobbling around when they land. They may look drunk, but they're actually just suffering from the effects of eating too much, too fast. Hummingbird feeders in winter? Winter weather in the San Francisco Bay Area is relatively moderate, so if you have hummingbird feeders hanging in your backyard during spring, summer and fall, it's OK to leave them up during winter, too. Most of our local hummers stick around and don't migrate and I'm sure they'd like to keep getting those free eats. If a hummingbird in your backyard DOES decide to take off and migrate for some reason, a little free sugar water isn't going to stop it. Got unwanted visitors at night? It's always a bit of a shock, I suspect, to hear a noise in the middle of the night and jump out of bed to discover a raccoon prowling around your kitchen or living room. This is entirely possible if you have a cat door that lets your kitty can come and go as it pleases. Raccoons can learn how to use one of those cat doors faster than any cat, which means the raccoon can also come and go as IT pleases, especially if it is cold or raining. The solution is simple. Lock the cat door and keep your cat in at night. That means no raccoons in the house at night and your cat will also be a LOT safer. A FINAL NOTE ... Because we're enjoying the holidays, this seems like an appropriate spot to stop and wish everyone a VERY Happy New Year! It's been fun and the future promises to be even better. I'll see you next year! /Gary gbogue@wildlife-museum.org

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Lindsay Wildlife Museum == November 2012 Newsletter #2

Posted: 29 Nov 12

This great public resource is located in Walnut Creek.  Here is a link to their site.  The following is their e-newsletter to which you may subscribe.

Lindsay Wildlife Museum

It's a Wild Life :: November, 2012

Connecting people with wildlife to inspire responsibility and respect for the world we share. Gary Bogue was the museum's Curator in the late 1960s and 1970s, and long-time wildlife columnist for the Contra Costa Times, recently retired. Spread the Word If you'd like to get monthly copies of Gary's "It's a Wild Life" delivered to your friends or family members for them to enjoy, get them a Lindsay Wildlife Museum membership! Quick Links » Donate today » Join Lindsay Wildlife Museum » Museum homepage Stay Connected » Subscribe » View in browser You are receiving this email from Lindsay Wildlife Museum because you are one of our supporters. To ensure that you continue to receive emails from us, add socialmedia@wildlife-museum.org to your address book. If you no longer wish to receive these emails at santacruz01pca@gmail.com, simply click on the unsubscribe link below.

Where Coyotes Sing and Play In my "A Final Note" in October's "It's a Wild Life," I asked if anyone else out there gets lulled to sleep by coyote lullabies? Looks like I'm not the only one. I received 16 responses and here they are. ** "We enjoy hearing the calls." Primrose Lane by Paso Nogal Park, Pleasant Hill. (J. Lee-Waite) ** "Saw a coyote in our backyard, Oct. 23, before dusk." Pine Street and Krisview Court, Martinez. (Dawn Surges) ** "We often hear coyotes in the hills and range lands around our house." Pinole Valley Road and Castro Ranch Road, El Sobrante. (David J. Molnar) ** "We hear what sounds like a barbershop quartet just after dark on summer eves." Ygnacio between Cowell and Aryes, across from Lime Ridge, Concord. (Scott E. Smith) ** "We hear coyotes in hills behind our home and lately we've heard them more frequently. They don't always lull us to sleep, however." San Ramon Valley Blvd., between Morgan and Montevideo, San Ramon. (Julie Brown) ** "Coyotes in our neighborhood have been singing with extra vigor this past month." Springhill Road, Lafayette, near Briones Regional Park. (Sandy K.) ** "Every night from about 10 p.m. on, I hear what sounds like a new family of pups, along with louder cries from Mom and Pop! They are quite loud on a peaceful night, but still very enjoyable." Macalvey Drive and Alhambra Hills Drive, Martinez. (Jim Millar) ** "We don't hear or see them often, but they are here." Lane Drive and San  Miguel Road, below Lime Ridge Open Space, Concord. (Chris King) **Coyotes snatched a woman's pet cat at dusk a couple of months ago." Rossmoor, Walnut Creek. (Evalyn D. Segal) ** "One starts his howl and is joined by another, and another, then silence. Then off to the other side, a coyote cousin starts, and so it goes, back and forth, each group out-singing the other." Dagnino at May School, north Livermore. (Corrinne Kahler) ** "Yes, Gary, we hear coyotes all the time in Clayton." Chardonnay Circle and Easlet Drive, Clayton. (Linda Cruz) ** "I fall asleep most nights to the coyotes singing near my house." California Highlands Community, tucked back in a canyon right off Donlon Loop Trail, Dublin. (Nicole McGinnis) ** "We hear coyotes frequently." Elm Avenue in East Richmond Heights, a half block from Wildcat Canyon. (Loekie Eilander) ** "In past years I've heard coyotes many a summer night, but for some reason I hardly hear them this year." Navaronne and Sunflower, near Lime Ridge, Concord. (J. Fenton) ** "We are lulled to sleep at least once to twice each week by a group of coyotes who harmonize quite well." Marsh Creek at Deer Valley Road, near Brentwood. (Rich & Delores Henderson) ** "We heard them in the middle of the night about 4-6 weeks ago." Kinney Drive and El Curtola Blvd., Walnut Creek. (Sarah Ortman) ** I love living in suburbia! (Gary)   Creatures of the Urban Wilderness (your backyard) :: Wild Turkey I think maybe we should call this the Year of the Turkey in the San Francisco Bay Area. They're everywhere. Flocks of anywhere from 2 to 100+ of these BIG gobblers. Massive flocks roaming the streets and sidewalks and devouring anything green in the backyards of the Rossmoor retirement community in Walnut Creek ... aggressive toms all puffed up to challenge cars and block the morning commute traffic on Moraga Road in Moraga ... an aggressive "team" of 4 BIG toms on Ygnacio Valley Road near Oak Grove Road in Walnut Creek, waiting for an opportunity to charge out and "attack" any bikers who dare to stop at local traffic lights ... It's a jungle out there, so watch your step. Hum. Let me rephrase that ... better watch WHERE you step!   A FINAL NOTE ... Been hearing a lot of "hooting" out in your backyard over the last month or so? It's been courting season for our big, beautiful local great horned owls. The male sits in the top of a tree hooting away. "Hello? Anybody out there?" If he's lucky, he'll eventually hear another hoot in the distance, hopefully responding to his call. Yes! All that hooting always reminds me of another great horned owl "who" lived at the museum back in the 1970s when I used to work here. Willard, a non-releasable male, and I (also non-releasable!) took a fancy to each other and became fast friends. That is, until one day Willard suddenly puffed up and spread his wings when I walked into the room and erupted into an explosion of HOOTS that were all obviously directed at me. From that point on, he started hooting at me the moment I walked into the building. My theory, "who" knows if it's correct or not, is that Willard had matured sexually as an adult and considered me to be the other adult male in the room ... intruding in his territory. Whatever the reason, from that point on I had to really watch my step when I was around him. Not that I ever held it against him. Willard was just being his natural great horned owl self. He was still one of the neatest owls, among many, that I've ever known. All that hooting every fall always brings back a lot of warm memories. See you next month. /Gary gbogue@wildlife-museum.org

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