| March 21, 2012 | ||
| 5:30 pm | to | 7:00 pm |
| March 24, 2012 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 12:30 pm |
- Black-throated blue warbler
Kicking off a year of collaboration between Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens and Maine Audubon is Attracting Birds to Your Backyard Habitat, the first offering in the Gardens’ 2012 educational theme, Feathers and Foliage: Celebrating Bird and Plant Interactions in Maine. For this cooperative program, you can take either session. Maine Audubon naturalist Mike Windsor and the Gardens’ executive director, Bill Cullina, will pair up to teach you how to attract more birds to your own backyard habitat using a combination of native plantings and feeders. Windsor will recommend feeder types and introduce which birds you can expect to attract; Cullina will explain which Maine native plants to incorporate into your landscape plantings to provide food, shelter, and nesting sites to enhance bird habitat on your property.
In the interest of reaching as many bird and garden enthusiasts as possible, the lecture will be held first at the Gilsland Farm Audubon Center in Falmouth and will be repeated at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay. Audubon-recommended bird feeders and copies of Cullina’s several books on gardening with native plants will be available for sale at the program.
To sign up for the March 21 class at Gilsland Farm in Falmouth, call 207-781-2330. For the March 24 class at the Gardens, call 207-633-4333, ext. 101, or click on the Purchase Tickets button below
Mike Windsor is Adult Educator & Naturalist at Maine Audubon’s Gilsland Farm Center in Falmouth. He is an avid birder and naturalist, and has worked as an educator and scientist for many years. He recently migrated back to the Northeast with his family and is excited about living in Maine.
Bill Cullina is Executive Director of Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. Previously Director of Horticulture for the Gardens, Cullina has also worked for many years as the native plant nursery director for the New England Wild Flower Society. He is the author of numerous books, three of which focus on cultivating native plants.
Where: Gilsland Farm Audubon Center, Falmouth (March 21) or Bosarge Family Education Center, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens (March 24)
Price: $15 members of Audubon or the Gardens, $20 nonmembers (preregistration requested
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