Join Bird Diva Bridget Butler for this workshop to assess what you have in your backyard and how to create a sanctuary for songbirds. Find out how you and your neighbors can create a much needed oasis in your backyard to support both migrants and breeding birds. We'll learn about threats to songbirds and how your landscaping choices can make a difference. Participants will leave with a start-up plan for transforming their yards and a short-list of plants, trees and shrubs that will benefit birds.
Bridget Butler, A.K.A The Bird Diva, has been a teacher/naturalist for more than 20 years working throughout New England. She has worked for the Audubon Society in Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, for ECHO Lake Aquarium & Science Center as their Conservation Education Specialist, for WPTZ NewsChannel Five as an environmental reporter, as well as Jay Peak Resort as a snowshoe tour guide and professional ski/snowboard instructor. Bridget currently appears on WCAX Local Vermont News covering nature and the environment and joins Jane Lindholm on Vermont Edition twice a year for the Annual Bird Show. As the Bird Diva, she feels it important that birders use their passion for birds to make a difference by helping to protect habitat for birds and other wildlife. Bridget hosts a website at www.birddiva.com and through Twitter, using social media to inspire stewardship. She does not have a "favorite" bird, although she considers the Nashville Warbler "hot"!