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  • Child (hands and part of torso) carving a white bar soap using a craft-stick tool.

    Dead Creek Wildlife Day 2025

    Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area Route 17W, Addison, VT, United States

    From Soap Carving to Fishing to Bird Banding and more: bring friends and family to Dead Creek Wildlife Day.

  • A golden-crowned Kinglet in profile perches on a small branch, looking upward to the right. White lettering over the image says : How Many Birds Can You Find? 29th Annual Great Backyard Bird Count February 13-16, 2026 birdcount.org Golden-crowned Kinglet / Regulus satrapa Photo: Ashle Pichon / MAcaulay Library

    The Great Backyard Bird Count

    Join the Great Backyard Bird Count!

    * Learn to ID birds — what do we look / listen for?
    * Go birding with a friend — twice the fun!
    * Record observations for a worldwide community science conservation project!

  • black-capped chickadee eyes black oil birdseed in the platform feeder in fall-winter

    Museum Open for Great Backyard Bird Count

    Birds of Vermont Museum

    Visit us February 14th, 2026,  to see what birds we're counting for the Great Backyard Bird Count!

    Learn to ID birds! — what do we look / listen for?
    Go birding with a friend — twice the fun !
    Record observations for this great citizen science project!

  • Two children - one in a pink dress and the other in a green shirt and grey hat - reach nets into a pond. Green grass, mostly bare branches, and faded stems of taller plants indicate early spring.

    Explore Spring!

    Birds of Vermont Museum

    All ages explore nature: discover, investigate, learn, and enjoy.

    $10

  • A young person in a white hat and orange t-shirt peers into a butterfly net. The are standing in tall green grasses and goldenrod in front of woody shrubs, on a sunny summer day.

    Butterfly and Bug Walk

    Birds of Vermont Museum

    Vermont Entomological Society naturalists and entomologists lead an exploratory stroll. Bring magnifying glass, and an insect net if you have them. Bring a picnic lunch for afterward.

    Free, donations welcome
  • Woodcarving of Archeopteryx eating a reptile. Carved and painted by Bob Spear. The Archeopteryx has reddish brown feathers and the reptile has green skin. The Archeopteryx is perched in a dead tree, and the background is painted landscape showing a river, a forest, and mountains.

    Birds: An Exploration Through Art

    Carpenter-Carse Library 69 Ballards Corner Rd., Hinesburg, Vermont

    Birds in the world and in art! Learn about them and make bird art. At Carpenter-Carse library, for younger elementary kids.