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FRI, JANUARY 29, 2010Winter Bird Festival at Creve Coeur Park
This is the first annual Winter Bird Festival at Creve Coeur Park which will take place on February 14th. This family friendly event is designed to be interactive with fun activities for all ages including guided bird walks, informational booths, a bird "scavenger hunt", and more!
This event is sponsored by The St. Louis Audubon Society, Webster Groves Nature Study Society, Wild Bird Rehabilitation and the Warson Woods Wild Birds Unlimited store. All will have informational/activity booths.
The event is FREE. The booths will be inside the Lake House Restaurant. Hot Chocolate will be provided. I hope to see you there! This promises to be a great time had by all.
General Info
Where: Creve Coeur Lake-meet at the Lake House Restaurant (2160 Creve Coeur Mill Road)
When: 11am-3pm Feb. 14th
What: Winter Bird Festival-booths, bird walks*, activities.
Why: A fun Family event, celebrating the diversity of wildlife at a cool place.
*Reservations strongly suggested for guided bird walks. Walks begin at 11:30am, 1pm and 2:30pm. See WBU store for details. 9987 Manchester Rd., Warson Woods 63122. (314-821-2266).
FRI, JANUARY 29, 2010
Missouri Botanical Garden Backyard Bird Festival
Feb. 6th, from 7:30AM to 3:00PM.
Talk to our volunteer at our informational table at the event.
For more information go to www.mobot.org.
SAT, JANUARY 09, 2010
Help keep birds warm and healthy this winter
January and February are going to be filled with arctic air and snowy days. Be sure to keep those feeders full and add a suet feeder if you can. Birds need to get to food to keep warm. Less energy spent looking for food keeps birds warmer and healthier. Water is also important. Feathers are the warm jackets, mittens and scarves for birds. They need to be clean to insulate the best. If you don’t have a heated bird bath, putting out warm water in a shallow pan one or two times a day will help.
SAT, JANUARY 09, 2010
Thanks to "Dime at a Time" Participatants
Thank you to all who participated in the “Dime at a Time” program at Whole Foods the last three months. December was our last month there. We talked to so many people who either already knew of WBR or wanted more information. It was great working with Whole Foods and we certainly appreciated the opportunity to reach out to the community to let them know there is help available for those small wild birds!
SAT, NOVEMBER 21, 2009
2009 Christmas cards are now available
Ellen Harms has designed holiday cards for us for the past three years. This year we are bringing back the “Chickadees” as well as last year’s card featuring a young Blue Jay.
Both cards are 6” by 4.5”. Inside, the message is “Seasons Greetings”. The price is ten (10) cards for ten dollars. Or, if you prefer, you can buy single cards for $1.00 each. Cards are available at the clinic, (9624 Midland Blvd, Overland 63114) from 9AM to 2PM daily, or you may call and have them sent for a $2.00 mailing and 
handling fee for 10 cards. Check for postage on larger amounts. Just call us at 314-246-6400. Credit cards are accepted.
We also have cards from the 2006 design, our building in snow. These cards are a bit larger. Their price is ten (10) cards for $15.00 or singles at $2.00.
SAT, NOVEMBER 21, 2009
Check out OneCause - A Great New Way to Help Wild Bird Rehabilitation
Check out OneCause.com for new coupons to shop for gifts this season. Remember, when shopping on line by using OneCause you can contribute to Wild Bird Rehabilitation each time you shop.
An even easier way to contribute is to install the OneCause tool bar. Each time you use the toolbar’s Yahoo! Feature for a search you contribute to WBR. If you search 10 times a day for one year, you could earn $72 for Wild Bird Rehabilitation.
For those shopping at a Schnucks store, remember to use your eScrip card when shopping for Thanksgiving and holiday parties!
Click Here For more information about the Schnucks eScrip program.
We know how difficult finances have become for all of us so we are always looking for easier ways for our supporters to help.
TUE, OCTOBER 20, 2009
One Dime at a Time
Wild Bird Rehabilitation is excited to announce that we are the recipient of Whole Foods Market’s “One Dime at a Time” program for October, November, December of 2009 & January 2010! This is at the Brentwood location only. So bring your bags and donate your dimes…..
Whole Foods Market gives 10 cents per bag to customers who re-use their own shopping bags for their purchased groceries. This program reduces our impact on the environment and now supports local non profit groups. Customers will have the choice to accept their cash refund, or donate the cash back to the store’s chosen non profit organization.
TUE, SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
New Habitat Built For Visiting Chimney Swifts at Wild Bird Rehabilitation
Have you noticed a little construction going on in our back parking lot at Wild Bird Rehabilitation. Thanks to a grant from the Boeing Employee Community Fund and the work of one of our members, E.F. Porter this will soon be a new home for visiting Chimney Swifts where they can nest and roost.
The Chimney Swift tower will also have an area to display information about these fascinating birds. Not only do they eat more than 1,000 mosquitoes and other insects a day, they are first-rate world travelers. Each spring they come from areas of Peru, Brazil and Chile to the skies of North America. Except when roosting at night and raising their young their life takes place in the skies. They are often referred to as the “Children of the Sky”. Chimney Swifts at one time nested in old growth trees that were hollow. As these disappeared they moved into the chimneys which became more and more plentiful as humans moved throughout the country. Now however, chimneys are often lined with metal and capped at the top, so the swifts are losing their nesting areas.
This tower will be an effort to add a new nesting site. If all goes well we will have a camera inside the tower to watch the nesting process. With a monitor inside the center visitors and volunteers can keep an eye on any resident swifts. We will try and get this on the web site also. It should be a pretty exciting reality show.
If you’d like to build a tower in your own backyard, we have information available at the center, or you can go to www.chimneyswifts.org.
TUE, SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
Eagle Scout Provides Flight Cage
Eagle Scout Ryan Holstad recently deconstructed Wild Bird Rehab's rehabilitation flight cage from Whitecliff Park in Crestwood and reconstructed it behind the Center across from the new flight cage. Having the flight cage close to the Center helps us monitor the birds' progress and insure volunteer coverage for the care of our recovering birds. This procedure included replacing rotten wood, reinforcing posts and rescreening.
Ryan and his crew, which often included his parents and other Eagle Scouts, spent more than 100 man hours on this project. We appreciate Ryan's attention to detail and care involved in getting this just right for our birds. The results are spectacular.
Eagle Scouts donate time to initiate, plan and complete a service project for a charity as part of mastering scouting requirements.