Wednesday Neighborhood Birder Holding Class About How Birds Raise Their Young

 

Connie Sidles,  Master birder  and long-time member of the Seattle Audubon Society, who lives in the neighborhood and serves on the Laurelhurst Community Club, is holding an on-line birding class on Wednesday from 6-8pm.  The cost is $25. 

Here is the information:

From Egg to Empty Nest: How Birds Raise Their Young (online)

Raising the next generation is as problem-filled and fulfilling for birds as it is for people. Some birds go it alone; some use community help; some rely on family members. Sometimes the males help; sometimes the females are single moms. Some build their own homes; some borrow from others; some have no fixed abode. Sound familiar? The one thing that birds do not do is: they don't allow the grown-up kids to move into the basement. Birds are quicker to achieve an empty nest than we are. If you'd like to learn more about birds' strategies to reproduce, let master birder Connie Sidles show you the secrets of birds' parenting lives. May is here, and bird courtship and breeding are well under way.

She has written four books about nature focusing on her the Montlake Fill, also known as the Union Bay Natural Area. at the Center for Urban Horticulture. Her most recent book, Forty-Six Views of Montlake Fill includes poems and Sumi paintings about "finding joy in the connections we make with nature and with each other."