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At 8:30 a.m., for an in-depth look at the park’s winter dress, meet long-time docent and Lake County Resident Glenn Smith at the visitor center ramp for a walk in the park.
Tour the visitor center and the gift shop from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
At 1:30 p.m., “Hooked on Hummingbirds,” a spectacular 53-minute video by Thomas Kaminski will be shown in the Visitor Center auditorium.
See 20 species of hummingbirds in one afternoon. See them in slow motion, stop motion and real time. Spectacular! It is a great film for all ages.
Witness courtship flights, nest building and feeding. Hummingbirds are extraordinary aerialists, unmatched for their brilliance and agility. This program will provide a real “up close” adventure with these spirits of the bird world.
A Rufous Hummingbird is preserved in the visitor center’s natural history museum. This feisty hummer passes through Lake County each spring and fall on its long migration from Mexico to southern Alaska and back. Black-chinned, Anna’s, Costa’s, Calliope, Rufous, and Allen’s appear on the Birds of Lake County Seasonal Checklist.
The gift shop is stocked with great gift giving ideas. All purchases and donations support the work of the Clear Lake State Park Interpretive Association in assisting the parks department in providing environmental and cultural interpretation to the community.
There is no entrance fee to the park to attend programs, participate in walks, or visit the museum.
Visit www.clearlakestatepark.org for great photos, activity schedule and park information.
Clear Lake State Park is located at 5300 Soda Bay Road, Kelseyville.
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HIDDEN VALLEY LAKE – The Lake County Milers running club is inviting all runners and walkers to its seventh annual Turkey Trot, to be held Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26, at 9 a.m., in Hidden Valley Lake.
The free-of-charge, family-oriented event is open to all Lake County residents, friends and relatives.
The event begins at the Hardester’s Market shopping center quad area (take Hartmann Road exit off Highway 29, about four miles north of Middletown) and includes a two-mile walk or a three-mile jog. All participants must sign a waiver, with adults signing a waiver for youth under 18.
The Turkey Trot is non-competitive and perfect for all family members. The Milers will provide hot beverages, juices, pastries and fruit.
“Don’t miss this chance to get a little exercise with family and friends before settling in for the traditional Thanksgiving feast,” said Milers President Jeanine Burnett.
The Turkey Trot also gives participants an opportunity to donate nonperishable food items for the “Spirit of the Season” food baskets, which will be distributed to needy families in December by Catholic Charities.
The items requested for the food baskets are boxed mashed potatoes; dry stuffing mix; canned or packet gravy; canned yams; brown sugar; corn bread mix; canned pineapple; Jell-O; and juice. Other items are cheerfully accepted as well.
Bring items for the food baskets and be entered in a holiday raffle drawing held directly after the trot.
The holiday raffle items are donated by Hardester’s Markets, the Lake County Milers and other local businesses.
Please visit www.lakecountymilers.com for more information or call 707-987-3229.
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The results were:
– Purple Flight: The team of Jim Cary/John Jones scored the lowest net of the event, 27; Jim Hodges/Jay Hodges had net 28 and Al Burrows/Dave Mann had 29.
– Gold Flight: The teams of Tom Sowell/Doug Carter and Bill Ferris/Bob Schlosser tied with 28; Jim DeRosa/Bill Lyon had net 29.
Forty-eight (24 teams) participated in this event. Each golfer received a coupon for a free turkey.
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KELSEYVILLE – The Redbud Audubon Society will meet on Thursday, Nov. 19, at 7 p.m. at the Kelseyville High School Auditorium, 5480 Main St., Kelseyville. Guest speaker will be Bob Keiffer, superintendent, U.C. Hopland Research and Extension Station.
Keiffer, a long-time local birder was part of a volunteer search team, organized by Cornell University in 2004 to look for the ivory-billed woodpecker. The third largest woodpecker in the world, the ivory-billed had been assumed to be extinct.
But in 2004 and 2005 15 credible sightings were reported by Cornell experts. Over the next few years, Cornell organized numerous volunteer search teams to look for the bird and document it in photographs.
Keiffer spent two weeks in 2007 canoeing and wading through the flooded bottomland forest of the Cache River and White River National Wildlife Refuges hoping to catch a glimpse of the legendary bird. The species was last documented in 1938 and by the 1970s this bird was assumed extinct by the ornithological world.
Did Keiffer see any ivory-billed woodpeckers? Come to the program to find out, to hear his story, and to see photos of other wildlife from those wet woodlands that he searched. Keiffer will give a Power Point presentation sharing his stories, wildlife photos, the history of the ivory-billed woodpecker, the story of the species decline, and a summary of evidence that supports the species existence.
The public is invited to join Redbud Audubon for this fascinating presentation. For more information about the society, go to www.redbudaudubon.org .