Wow!  Great weather brought us a great group of 17 volunteers for our February Second Saturday Work Day.  Your Fearless Leader was concerned that so many of our “Regulars” were out of town, but “Never fear,” several new faces were in attendance!  (So many that we don’t trust ourselves to caption the group photo!)

 Not shown in the photo above are your Fearless Leader photographer and three late arrivals!

Participants included: Co-Chairs Jack Coleman and Bob Clemens, Vice-Chair Lynn Hodgson, Jim Reynolds, Tim O’Connell, Linda Yeomans, Wes Braun, Gary Laughlin, Cathie Braun, Jeff Davis, Sally Lippman, Greg Riss, Ingrid Braun, Karen Lucey, Jeff Koff, John Grobe, and Sal Gioia.

The most challenging task was Jim Reynolds's crew, who relocated our Pollinator garden signs to ease access to the newly relocated Handicap Parking area shown here! Another crew painted the handicap logs “safety blue!”

Once done with the pollinator garden signs, the post hole diggers crew installed this new sign “certifying” the Preserve as a Bird and Wildlife Friendly Habitat!

 Another team, led by Lynn Hodgson, cleaned and refilled our bird feeders.  Pretty much everyone else culled vegetation from the Newhall and Audubon Pond trails.  Two truckloads were hauled to the collection site to be removed by Sea Pines CSA.

 Our next Second Saturday Work Day will be March 8th.  Watch the Audubon Website, Facebook and your emails for reminders.

Robert “Bob” Clemens

Co-Chair Audubon Newhall Preserve