Take a spring wildflower walk. Explore our trails in search of spring wildflowers and ephemerals. Learn about the seasonal challenges and changes influencing these briefly-blooming beauties with Museum volunteer Mary Ann Schlegel.
Take a spring wildflower walk. Explore our trails in search of spring wildflowers and ephemerals. Learn about the seasonal challenges and changes influencing these briefly-blooming beauties with Museum volunteer Mary Ann Schlegel.
Our popular Eggstatic! program is being offered again, this time over spring vacation!
Why do birds layeggs? How do birdeggscompare and contrast witheggsof other animals? Birds, amphibians, reptiles, insects, and fish all produce eggs!
Explore different conditions and challengeseggsmust overcome. Discover adaptations that promoteeggsurvival. They are amazing structures with multiple functions! Why do they look and work as they do?
Ages 6-10 • 8 participants
Fee: $15–$35 (choose what is best for you)
Take a spring wildflower walk. Explore our trails in search of spring wildflowers and ephemerals. Learn about the seasonal challenges and changes influencing these briefly-blooming beauties with Museum volunteer Mary Ann Schlegel.
Why do birds layeggs? How do birdeggscompare and contrast witheggsof other animals? Birds, amphibians, reptiles, insects, and fish all produce eggs!
Explore different conditions and challengeseggsmust overcome. Discover adaptations that promoteeggsurvival. They are amazing structures with multiple functions! Why do they look and work as they do?
Create your own egg to take home.
Ages 6-10 • 8 participants
Fee: $15–$35 (choose what is best for you)
Enjoy a winter evening at Gale’s Retreat, off Bob’s Trail. Learn about Vermont Huts, nature at night, and more. Please dress for chilly nighttime, winter weather.
Beetles (Order: Coleoptera) are a fascinating yet vastly understudied taxonomic group. In Vermont alone, there are over 1,000 different species! Some groups provide important roles as pollinators, biological controls, decomposers, and more. Other beetles, such as the invasive Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis) threaten the health of our ecosystems.
Join us to learn about the ecology and identification of different groups of beetles found in Vermont.
In this two hour workshop, we will spend about 45 minutes focusing on a few families, genera, and species of note. For the remaining hour and 15 minutes, we will go outside and search for beetles around the Birds of Vermont museum, identifying as we go.
Additionally, Julia volunteers in a number of roles for Sosyete pou Rebwaze Duchity Haiti (SRDH) – a community-based reforestation and agroforestry organization operating in Duchity, Haiti. In their spare time, Julia enjoys painting, spending time with their birds, hiking, and (of course) searching for insects.
Images provided by Julie Pupko of Vermont Center for Ecostudies.
The most relaxed birding around. And around and around …
How many birds (and birdwatchers) can we identify from a 17-foot diameter circle between sunrise and sunset? Can we beat last year’s record? We’ve seen birds big and small, in night and day: from Kinglets to Great Blue Herons, Barred Owls to Turkey Vultures.
This is a great long-running community science project. Pledges and donations welcome:
We are observing from Dawn to Dusk. The Museum is open from 10am – 4pm.
Call or email to ask about joining the observation team.
Join artist Rachel Mirus and let your imagination take flight with bird-inspired creative drawing.
Observing nature has inspired many artistic flights of imagination. In this class, we will look closely at feathers, one of the hallmark traits of birds, and spend time observing birds.
Along the way we will cover field sketching and easy ways to add color to drawings, working primarily in graphite, color pencil, and brush pen.
From this observational foundation we will consider how scientific or fantasy illustrators reinvent vanished animals like feathered dinosaurs or create images of mythical animals like the phoenix.
Class will culminate in project time for students to experiment with their own creative ideas. Come learn ways your appreciation of nature can fuel your imagination!
All materials provided, but participants are encouraged to bring any natural objects they wish to draw or share. You are welcome to bring any materials you prefer. Rachel also provides materials, but sometimes people have preferences and she support students using what they are comfortable with.
Bring a friend! You are welcome to enjoy your lunch here at the museum after the workshop.
Sliding scale fee • Register here or call (802) 434-2167 to pay at the door.
Minimum: 4 participants
Maximum: 15 participants
Ages 13 and up
