Backyard Birding! Creating Bird-Friendly Habitat in Your Backyard with Maine Audubon

Press Release

SOUTHWEST HARBOR—Looking to learn how to bring more native Maine birds into your backyard? Find out during the talk “Creating Bird-Friendly Habitat in Your Backyard with Maine Audubon” on Tuesday, April 22 at 5:30 p.m. at the Southwest Harbor Public Library. David Lamon, Director of Northern Operations for Maine Audubon, will be teaching us the best ways to establish bird-friendly habitats in our backyards and build ecosystems to attract Maine’s native birds. Online viewing available.

Your backyard provides a window into the natural world and there are a number of steps you can take to make it wildlife & bird friendly. Join us to learn best practices for attracting and supporting birds in your home landscape during all seasons. We’ll answer questions like: Does feeding birds change their migration habits? Will they starve if you stop feeding them? Why are native plants so important for birds’ survival? Maine Audubon works everyday with both children and adults to promote environmental literacy so that Mainers can become more informed and effective stewards of Maine’s wildlife and habitat.

David Lamon, a College of the Atlantic (COA) graduate, was the former Program Education Coordinator at COA and Executive Director for 15 years with the Somes-Meynell Wildlife Sanctuary, an approximately 255 acre preserve in the Somes Pond Watershed in Somesville.

Maine Audubon works to conserve Maine wildlife and wildlife habitat by engaging people in education, conservation, and action. An independent organization, Maine Audubon is not a chapter of National Audubon. These organizations have an independent, collaborative relationship, and share conservation goals.

To register, visit https://tinyurl.com/y3xpfh7u, call 244-7065, or email programs@swhplibrary.org.