The Albert Lea Audubon Society extends a huge hearty thanks for  a duet educational and riotously hilarious presentation on reptiles. We discovered its focus to be about guard turtles, by Dr. Leo Skorin and his lovely partner in crime, Kathy Skorin, with our annual December potluck meeting on Saturday. Skorin is very familiar to folks in this region as a wonderful eye surgeon, opening his presentation, of all things, on turtles as his subject, that was such medicinal merriment and Kathy contributing knowledgable comments on the care of those reptiles, and cures if needed for whatever health issues.  The two should take their show on the road and make a fortune. Members of the Albert Lea Audubon Society are convinced Leo and Kathy’s special reptile show would be at least as profitable if only as part-time employment beyond Leo’s profession as an excellent eye surgeon.

The National Audubon Society has been regarded as the premier conservation organization in the U.S. for several decades. While the public usually regards it as devoted only to birds, folks will discover once joining that its devoted to all forms of wildlife and our environment. Birds, of course, are very much our “canaries in the coal mine,” our planet now having a cacophony of birds warning us of things to come and things that may not come if we take strong actions to mitigate those problems.

Thanks again to Dr. Leo Skorin and Kathy for giving us all a promintent lifelong memory!

 

Rick Mammel

Albert Lea