Northern Yellow Warbler
Session 1 – Birding 101
Friday May 22, 7:30-11 am
The field portion of this session will involve a bird-watching hike at the SSIC’s Blackburn Lake property. You will learn and practice the basic techniques of bird watching including how to get the most from binoculars or spotting scopes; the use of bird apps such as Merlin and eBird; techniques for locating birds and finding good habitat; and more. Several of Nature Salt Spring’s birding enthusiast group will be your instructors, with an informal, and thoroughly fun approach.
For those interested, there will be a special session on bird photography with Pierre Mineau. (sign up for this by emailing naturesaltspring@gmail.com)
In the lab portion, we’ll be treated to some of Pierre’s incredible bird photography and we’ll have a presentation about bird feathers and flight by Salt Spring naturalist, author, and nature exhibit designer, Don Gunn. We’ll use the SEM and other microscopes to explore feather structure and find out about flight and other topics of bird natural history