Spots are still available on some of the field trips. The birding field trips are geared for new birders, advanced birders, and those who just like to go out in nature and perhaps learn something new. The field trip leaders are some of the best in Michigan and we are fortunate to have them join us over Memorial Weekend. We're setting up transportation and will be closing the registration on May 19th. Participants will be sporting a newly designed BIBT t-shirt illustrated by Trevor Grabill. Check out the BIBT website schedule and registration: http://www.beaverislandbirdingtrail.org ... edule.html
The festivities begin on Friday night, May 26th with â??Michigan Eagles and Ospreys, A Bird's Eye Viewâ? presented by Jerry Weinrich at 5 p.m. at the Community Center. Free and appropriate for all age groups. No registration is required for presentations.
Jerry Weinrich will speak on his dream job conducting a census of the eagle and osprey populations in the Northern Lower Peninsula. As a wildlife biologist for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment for 30 years, Jerry has the distinction of coordinating the longest-running, large scale census of eagles and ospreys anywhere in the country. He has produced amazing aerial views, not only of nests with fledglings inside, but birds in flight as well. The eagle population, Weinrich says, is on the rise â?? up from 30 nesting pair in the Lower Peninsula when he started to 407 now. There are about 120 pair of nesting osprey, he said. Currently, Beaver Island is the only Great Lakes Island with a pair of nesting Osprey.
Weinrich hopes those who attend will walk away from the program with an appreciation of how well the eagles are doing.
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On Saturday, May 27th from 4:30 - 5:30 p.m., the BIBT festivities will include Birding 101 at the Community Center.
Interested in exploring skills helpful to beginning birders? Join Darrell Lawson, President of the Petoskey Audubon Club, for a beginning birding presentation at the Community Center. Darrell will cover field guide selection, optics selection, tips for learning bird songs, bird habitats, and identification pitfalls to avoid. Darrell is an avid birder who loves sharing his passion. Free, no registration required, and appropriate for all age groups.
Interested in exploring skills helpful to beginning birders? Join Darrell Lawson, President of the Petoskey Audubon Club, for a beginning birding presentation at the Community Center. Darrell will cover field guide selection, optics selection, tips for learning bird songs, bird habitats, and identification pitfalls to avoid. Darrell is an avid birder who loves sharing his passion. Free, no registration required, and appropriate for all age groups.