June 7 to 12, 2015
Hone your birding skills with some of America’s top birders, including famed author Pete Dunne, while increasing your appreciation for music and birds with seven time Grammy Award winner Paul Winter.

Joy of Birding offers an inspiring and transformative experience that will improve your existing birding skills and inspire a greater appreciation of music. Our innovative approach to becoming a better birder will connect and engage both your left and right brain. This whole-brain experience will activate your senses while ultimately enhancing your appreciation and knowledge of birds.

Learn new methods to identify birds by sight, sound and behavior. This program includes special sessions that not only identify birds by their vocalizations, but will help you understand the language and messages of calls and songs. Our enthusiastic, engaging instructors will lead small-group field trips and informal instruction that will sharpen your birding skills.

Joy of Birding will also include Paul Winter’s special program ‘Adventures in SoundPlay’, with four lively sessions for anyone with an interest in music and nature. This program is designed to help awaken our senses to the aural tapestry of the natural world.

Hog Island in June is home to nesting Bald Eagles, Ospreys and northern songbirds, such as Winter Wren, Northern Parula, Blackburnian, and Black-throated Green Warblers. Mainland trips will visit nearby birding hotspots that offer habitat for shorebirds, forest, and marsh birds. This session includes a trip around Eastern Egg Rock, home to Atlantic Puffins, Black Guillemots and Roseate, Common and Arctic Terns.