Participants are expected to comply with current government social distancing requirements and precautions.  Participants must wear face masks over their mouth and nose throughout the event and must maintain 6 feet distance from other participants who are not members of the same household.  Participants are discouraged from carpooling to and from this event with other participants who are not members of the same household.

Limit 10, RSVP to trip leader to reserve your spot after 6pm on May 3. (Early registration is not accepted).

Trip Leader: Megan Jones Patterson, megan@boulderaudubon.org

With this field trip, we’ll get back to the basics, no matter if you are a birding beginner or just interested in revisiting some basics of identification.  While enjoying the birds on the ponds and in stream-side habitat at Walden and Sawhill Ponds, we’ll go over important skills for enjoying birding:

• use of binoculars and spotting scopes (*use of spotting scopes will depend on COVID considerations at the time of the field trip).

• using bird books & bird ID apps

• key characteristics for helping to sort one bird from another — it is not just about colors!

Loaner binoculars are available for participants without binoculars. Please let the trip leader know you want the binoculars with your RSVP. Families are welcome.

Where to meet: Meet near the start of the boardwalk at the primary parking lot for Walden Ponds/Cottonwood Marsh.