Flocking Together: Chicks, Charms, and Signs of Summer

It’s Goldfinch season!

Join us in celebrating a new book: Goldfinches, by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Mary Oliver, with illustrator Melissa Sweet.

Melissa will begin with a reading of Goldfinches, then teach us about these vibrant birds, including how they nest and raise their chicks, and why their collective noun is a “Charm of Goldfinches.” We’ll get tips on drawing birds, then participants are invited to collage bird chicks to take home and go on a birding walk to look for goldfinches and other feathered friends.

Books available for sale and signing to follow.

For families and budding naturalists of all ages.

Sunday August 16, 10 am-12 pm.
Gilsland Farm Visitor Center
$8 members, $10/person nonmembers

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