Tag: birds

By-Appointment Season 2025-2026 (April)

white, five-petaled flower with long, smooth leaves growing at the base of a gray rock.

From November through April, we’re open by appointment and for special events. Individuals, families, and groups are all welcome at all times of year. Our trails are open year-round, sunrise to sunset.

Behind the scenes in April: we’re jurying the submitted art, contacting artists, and hanging the art for this year’s show. We’re also working on grants, welcoming volunteers, tidying permanent exhibits. We’re excited about returning migratory birds and planning lots of birds walks for May and June!

Please call (802) 434-2167 or email museum@birdsofvermont.org several days in advance to schedule your visit. Admission is free for members!

Or sign up to attend special events: these are listed on our calendar at https://birdsofvermont.org/special-upcoming/

By-Appointment Season 2025-2026 (March)

A Wild Turkey is seen through an office window.

From November through April, we’re open by appointment and for special events. Individuals, families, and groups are all welcome at all times of year. Our trails are open year-round, sunrise to sunset.

Behind the scenes in March: we’re reviewing submissions for the new art show, feeding birds, working on special projects, hosting the spring board meeting…

We invite all artists to pick up their works from previous shows!

Please call (802) 434-2167 or email museum@birdsofvermont.org several days in advance to schedule your visit. Admission is free for members!

Or sign up to attend special events: these are listed on our calendar at https://birdsofvermont.org/special-upcoming/

By-Appointment Season 2025-2026 (February)

Camel's Hump: view from the Birds of Vermont Museum's backyard

From November through April, we’re open by appointment and for special events. Individuals, families, and groups are all welcome at all times of year. Our trails are open year-round, sunrise to sunset.

We are open for one day of the Great Backyard Bird Count (February 14). Bring your sweetie!

Behind the scenes in February:  We’re working on some special projects this month and doing some quiet birding. A few more artists might stop in to pick up works from last year’s show and we hope many of them are imagining or creating new ones for the next show!

Please call (802) 434-2167 or email museum@birdsofvermont.org several days in advance to schedule your visit. Try our self-scheduling booking calendar!  Admission is free for members!

Do sign up to attend special events: these are listed on our calendar at https://birdsofvermont.org/special-upcoming/ .

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Call to Artists: Wings • Waters • Ways

Pale image of a carved and painted wooden female Labrador duck swimming and seen from below underlies brown cursive text that reads Wings-Waters-Ways: a call to artists.

Explore the interwoven history of humans, birds, and waterways with your art. Consider upcoming “250th” celebrations in the US, the much-longer history of humans on the landscape in the Green Mountains and Champlain Valley, and the much, much, much longer stories of how birds have evolved with, use, and been influenced by water and waterways. Ponder habitats, adaptations, and interactions.

The Birds of Vermont Museum invites art submissions that dive and soar with the ways of wings and waters for our 2026 community art show.
Continue reading “Call to Artists: Wings • Waters • Ways”

Museum Open for Great Backyard Bird Count

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

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 or listen for?
  • Go birding with a friend — twice the fun!
  • Find out more about and record observations for this great community science project.

We’re open from 10-4 on Saturday for the GBBC
Members admission: Free!

About the GBBC:

Friday – Monday,  February 13-16, 2026 • All Over the World

From the Great Backyard Bird Count website:

Launched in 1998 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society, the Great Backyard Bird Count was the first online citizen-science project to collect data on wild birds and to display results in near real-time.

Since then, more than 100,000 people of all ages and walks of life have joined the four-day count each February to create an annual snapshot of the distribution and abundance of birds.

For more info visit Great Backyard Bird Count website

The Great Backyard Bird Count

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

Friday – Monday, February 13-16, 2026 • All Over the World

Whether you are with a friend or on your own, watching one bird or counting hundreds, join a worldwide community-science and conservation project! All you have to do is observe for 15 minutes and submit your observation(s). Here are few details from https://www.birdcount.org/participate/ :

Step 1 – Decide where you will watch birds. [Suggestion: at the Museum on Saturday!]

Step 2 – Watch birds for 15 minutes or more, at least once over the four days, February 13-16, 2026.

Step 3 – Count all the birds you see or hear within your planned time/location and use the best tool for sharing your bird sightings:

For more info visit https://www.birdcount.org/

By-Appointment Season 2025-2026 (January)

small songbird (Junco or Chickadee) tracks in snow

From November through April, we’re open by appointment and for special events. Individuals, families, and groups are all welcome at all times of year. Our trails are open year-round, sunrise to sunset.

Please call (802) 434-2167 or email museum@birdsofvermont.org several days in advance to schedule your visit. Admission is free for members!

Sign up to attend any special events: these are listed online at https://birdsofvermont.org/special-upcoming/

Behind the scenes in January: we’re feeding birds and sending out thank you letters (yay!). Some of us are birding in the last of the 2025-2026 Christmas Bird Count.

 

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