Next Sunday afternoon, Back to the Wild Wildlife Rehabilitation and Nature Education Center will be having an open house. Located in Castalia, just s outhwest of Sandusky, BTTW could be a great stop on the way home for many of you attending Sunday Fall Warbler Symposium field trips. If you have never visited this facility, you don't know what you are missing. If you have been there before, come see what's new. The latest addition is a non-releasable Golden Eagle. Visitors now have the opportunity to view Golden and Bald Eagles side by side. BTTW has also recently constructed a waterfowl habitat enclosure which houses recovering birds and non-releasable program birds including herons, ducks, and gulls. Most of the raptors found in Ohio are displayed as well as many other species of birds. Reptiles, amphibians, and mammals (including Bobcats and Red Fox as well as more common species) are also present. The impact this facility has had on our community is far reaching. Almost every child in our area has been touched by educational programs presented by Mona Rutger,owner of BTTW. She not only teaches the children about the animals but also gently teaches environmental concepts like habitat preservation and restoration, litter prevention, wise use of pesticides, etc. Her rehabilitation work allows many animals to be returned to the wild, but Mona feels that the greatest service does for Ohio's wildlife is shaping the attitudes of the young so that they will make good environmental decisions in the future. Back to the Wild, like all animal rehabilitators, receives no state or federal funding and relies solely on donations to continue its work. Directions, from _http://backtothewild.org/_ (http://backtothewild.org/) The center is located east of Castalia, Ohio at 4504 Bardshar Road. The center is about three miles south of the State Route 2 and State Route 101 intersection. Take SR 101 south about one mile to the intersection with Bardshar Road. Go south (left) on Bardshar one and a half miles to the center. Castalia is about five miles southwest of Sandusky, Ohio. Sheryl Young Sandusky ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]