Birding by Ear (Intermediate) – weekend course

This Intermediate birding course will focus on improving your birding skills, especially by listening to birds. While there are now applications for phones that will let you identify birds, these are not foolproof, and they don’t count birds, so learning to tell apart birds by ear is still a useful skill.  This course will help towards a better understanding of sound, describing and categorizing bird songs and learning tips and tricks that will help you solve vocal mysteries in your backyard or on any of your birding adventures.

WEEKEND OUTLINE

Saturday, May 2

4 pm to 6 pm: presentation on birding

6 pm to 7 pm: dinner at Ross Creek (option to order from Ross Creek)

7 pm to dusk: We will go out in the field to ID birds

Sunday, May 3

7 am to 10 am: We will practice our birding skills again in the field.

10 to 10:45: breakfast (option to order from Ross Creek)

Meeting point:  Ross Creek Centre for the Arts  (555 Ross Creek Rd, Kings, Subd. B)

Ross Creek has awesome and affordable accommodation options for those who would like to stay overnight. For more information, click here.

Course fee is $60.00 and is due by Sunday, April 26. Payments are made through this Zeffy link. (Please note that Zeffy will request a donation, but this option is entirely voluntarily).

Presenter Patrick Kelly is an avid birder and the compiler of the West Hants Christmas Bird Count as well as the regional coordinator for the Annapolis Valley–Digby Neck region in the second Maritime Breeding Bird Atlas.