Audubon presentation helps locals identify birds in winter

By Matthew Nash • November 27, 2024 1:30 am
Photo by Mick Thompson Learn about local birds, like the spotted towhee, at the Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society’s presentation “Identifying Your Backyard Birds in Winter” from 10 a.m.-noon, Saturday, Dec. 7, in the Dungeness River Nature Center.
Photo by Mick Thompson Learn about local birds, like the spotted towhee, at the Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society’s presentation “Identifying Your Backyard Birds in Winter” from 10 a.m.-noon, Saturday, Dec. 7, in the Dungeness River Nature Center.

As winter sets in, the Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society’s Backyard Birding program offers a refresher on the birds that locals can expect to visit in their yards.

Ken Wiersema will share the presentation “Identifying Your Backyard Birds in Winter” from 10 a.m.-noon, Saturday, Dec. 7, in the Dungeness River Nature Center, 1943 W. Hendrickson Road, in Sequim.

Admission to is free with a $5 suggestion donation to support ongoing Audubon Society education and conservation programs.

Wiersema’s program emphasizes how bird appearance and behavior changes in the local winter, which bird species do not migrate, and how to assist birds through the winter.

There will be a review on some basic identification tips and a summary of the shorebird and water bird species that spend winter along local shores.

We will discuss what winter birds need in the colder months, with examples of roost boxes.

Visitor are encouraged to bring their bird identification questions, bird behavior observations, and references materials that you use or recommend.