So, you always wanted to be a bird-watcher (birder)! Now you have no excuse!  This course is intended to provide a launching pad for those who interested in becoming a birder.  It will teach you how to identify the common birds in our area in the winter and give you tips to maximize your chance of seeing them, what equipment to have and which guide books and apps to use. We will have one classroom session highlighting those birds we are likely to see in four field trips that would follow soon thereafter. This would be done by showing photographs of these likely birds, indicating their defining characteristics. The classroom session will be on November 18, from 11:30-1:00, in person at temple Shalom.  Then we will go out in the field to see them, traveling to four “hotspots” for birding, on December 2, 9, 16, and January 6.  At least two trips would span most of a full day, the other two of shorter duration.

Binoculars are required for the field trips, which will each involve less than two miles of walking on ground that is fairly even.  No preparation time is required.