Birders Boost Our Economy

Sarasota Herald-Tribune's Tom Lyons - Rare Birds Draw Birders … [Read more...]

Cinnamon Teal at the Celery Fields by Mark Vance

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Birding on the Suncoast with SAS’ Stu Hills – ABC 7 News

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Some Local People Important to Conservation

RANDALL REID was selected by the County Commission from over 40 original applicants to replace already-departed Jim Ley (and interim manager Terry Lewis) as the top administrator of Sarasota County … [Read more...]

Watch This Video – Tree Swallow Roost

Click here to watch the Tree Swallow Roost It is morning at a Tree Swallow roost in Sarasota County as they fly up and away to their feeding grounds. This was taken by Cornell researcher, Natalia … [Read more...]

Help with Tree Swallow Research

For the third winter running, students from Cornell, Tulane and LSU will be studying Tree Swallows in south central Florida with Sarasota as the center of operations. One of the students, Natalia … [Read more...]

Key West & Dry Tortugas Trip – April 16-19, 2012

Yellow Warbler

Sponsored by Venice Audubon Society and Sarasota Audubon Society We will return to popular Key West, stop at the Ten Thousand Island tower on the way there , stay at the Comfort Inn and the next … [Read more...]

Eric Ernst Column – Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Ernst: Conservatives don't care about conserving By Eric Ernst     Reprinted with permission. Published: Thursday, September 29, 2011 They may call themselves conservatives, but they … [Read more...]

Celery Fields Walk – Oct 8

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 October 8, 2011 At our first of the year Celery Fields walk, we saw 4 juvenile Purple Gallinules and two adults, right off the new boardwalk. Sandy Cooper took the photo attached. Later on, … [Read more...]

Purple Martin House for Rothenbach Park

Master Builders at Work

Today ( Oct 8th) I met Karen Jensen of our own SAS and Lynda Eppinger from Sarasota County, at Urfer Park to  what I thought was an invitation to take pictures of them assembling a Purple Martin … [Read more...]