Lori Danielson, president of Eastside Audubon Society.
President’s Letter: Springtime Events are Coming!
By Lori Danielson
This month I have no single theme, but a hodgepodge of cool things I want to share with you.
First, our program night on April 28 at 7 p.m. via Zoom will be about female bird song with Dr. Lauryn Benedict. She’s a Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Northern Colorado, studying the vocalizations and behavior of wild birds. Her presentation is titled, “Divas in the treetops: When and why do female birds sing?” Registration is available at the Eastside Audubon website here. I hope you’ll join us!
May will soon be here and it’s Eastside Audubon’s Birdathon month! We’re now lining up the special walks and other events that make Birdathon our biggest, most exciting fundraiser of the year. Stay tuned to our web calendar during the latter part of April here to see what events will be taking place!
On April 7th there’s a Zoom webinar that I think will be really good and speaks to our chapter’s effort to make our communities better for birds. The speaker will be Eileen Stark, the author of Real Gardens Grow Natives: Design, Plant, and Enjoy a Healthy Northwest Garden as well as an ecological landscape designer. She’ll be presenting “Native by Design: Reimagine Beauty With More Habitat, Less Lawn” for the Central Puget Sound Chapter of the Washington Native Plant Society. The webinar is free and open to anyone, with registration here.
And finally, there’s an online course on eBird from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and it’s free! If you want to learn more about how to use eBird to record the birds you’ve seen, check out the course here.