The Museum is having a Volunteer Work Day on May 2, 2009 to prepare the Museum for the 2009 season. We need help with raking, washing display cases, maintaining the trails, cutting up raffle tickets, setting up the outdoor scavenger hunts, and helping set up the lunch (to name a few things)! We could really use your enthusiastic help to get the Museum organized and set up for visitors. Lunch will be served at noon.
If you are unable to come that day, but are willing and able, we need volunteers throughout the year. We are looking for volunteers to help weekly or monthly in the gift shop, on the trails, with bird monitoring, with school groups, or at our special events.
Our first big special event is International Migratory Bird Day event on May 16, 2009. We need parkers, greeters, monitors, activities helpers, raffle and food sellers.
Also, if you have old CDs that you are about to get rid of, we can use them for an art activity on May 16th.
Please contact us (802)434-2167 if you have any time to donate (or just plan to come for lunch on May 2)!
We had a great trip on Saturday February 7th on our winter birding trip led by Jim Andrews. We met in Vergennes and drove south making a big loop. We saw red-tailed hawk, rough-legged hawk, rock pigeon, mourning dove, downy woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, blue jay. American crow, common raven, horned lark, black-capped chickadee, tufted titmouse, white-breasted nuthatch, astern bluebird, American robin, European starling, American tree sparrow, white-throated sparrow, dark-eyed junco, snow bunting, red-winged blackbird, purple finch, house finch, common redpoll, pine siskin, American goldfinch, house sparrow. This is the second winter birding trip that Jim had led. We have decided his next trip will be during migration when we can look for open water AND not need to be wearing 400 layers!
