Birdability – Accessible Birding at Scarborough Marsh

Date: Saturday, October 24
Time: 10 am-12 pm
Free, no registration necessary
Location: Scarborough Marsh Audubon Center – meet in the parking lot for the nature center, here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/7wtWGF8yV1DvSjQPA

Join naturalist Doug Hitchcox for an accessible birding event at the Scarborough Marsh, known as one (if not the) best places to bird in Maine! Mid October is a great time to watch ducks and geese arriving for the winter, look for lingering shorebirds, and keep a sharp eye out for foraging raptors. We’ll be set up during the incoming tide, hopefully letting it push birds in the river close to us.

During this event we plan on being stationary throughout our birding. The parking lot here is paved, and the deck at the nature center is accessed via a wooden ramp. We’ll be birding from the deck, where there are moveable benches with room for any additional seats you want to bring.

We’ll have extra binoculars and monoculars on hand for anyone to borrow.

NOTE: Birdability Week—an annual collection of events during the third week of each October—is a celebration of birders with disabilities and other health concerns, as well as an opportunity to share resources and ideas to help the birding community become accessible, inclusive, and welcoming to everybody.  More: birdability.org/birdability-week

Maine Audubon strives to provide inclusive and accessible programs for all members of the community. If you require accommodations to participate in this program, please email events@maineaudubon.org. Maine Audubon can best meet the needs of requests submitted at least seven days before the event start date.