"Nine Audubon of St. Johns members and guests spent three hours in the Park "Birding" and "Planting" Sunday morning.  Lucy Seeds led the group.  It was light jacket weather and the sky was clear with a slight breeze.

The morning began rather slowly in spite of the Red-shouldered Hawk that sat on a limb near us and followed us when we proceeded down the trail.  Diane Reed had seen a Ruby-crowned Kinglet earlier and insisted that we would see migrating Warblers.  Lucy had her doubts having checked out the park the week before and saw not one warbler.  As we strolled the paved path we identified shrubs, trees, wild flowers, including a woodland Orchid, ferns, and invasive plants. 

But thanks to Diane's perseverance, the Warblers did appear in a group at one site on the trail.  The following is a list of all the birds we identified for the morning.

Alpine Groves Park was officially opened this year.  It provides a large picnic shelter house, a children's playground, butterfly garden, paved nature trail, canoe access and more improvements being developed.  It is very well visited with many dogs on leashes, people exercising, children playing and Birders birding. " - D. Reed 10/9/2006