Archive for September, 2024

“SLOW BIRDING: EXPERIENCE BIRDS DIFFERENTLY” with Audubon President Molly Moore. Slow birding offers a different approach focused on fine tuning your birding skills and forging a deeper connection with birds and their habitat. Join us for a relaxing meander along the paths of this beautiful park with its stately trees, open fields, woodland edges and fascinating history. We welcome beginners wanting to ease into birding, nature journallers seeking an opportunity to sketch, and experienced birders looking for a closer connection to birds and nature. Easy terrain, much of it on paved paths and pedestrian roadways. Loaner binoculars available if you do not have your own. We will provide sketch books and pens. Restrooms in the park near our starting point. Set GPS to above address and look for parking lot with colorful Lexington Manor Passive Park mural. We will meet in parking lot. (It’s across from Three Notch Theatre and past U.S. Post Office. Open to all ages. Please register here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0844A8A923ABFFC70- 50697781-slow

Join us for our Monthly Meeting Zoom talk: Raptor Quest: Chasing America’s Birds of Prey on Wednesday, Oct. 2 @ 7 p.m.

Author and wildlife photographer Scott Harris takes us on his journey find all 53 raptors that call the Lower 48 states home. It took 17 months and more than 100,000 miles across 34 states, but Harris found them all and chronicled his adventures and misadventures in a book, “Raptor Quest: Chasing America’s Raptors.” He shares his tales with us, along with what he learned about these amazing birds and the people he met along the way.

If you are not already on our “Osprey” newsletter list, you can sign up at the bottom of our home page www.somdaudubon.org and we will send you the Zoom link prior to the talk.

Talk may qualify for continuing education hours for Master Naturalists.