A26: How To Identify Local Birds and Prepare  Your Yard for Fall and Winter Birds - 3 units 
Elinor Miller
Wed. 1:00–2:30 p.m. - Sept. 17, 24, Oct. 1, 8
Senior Center - Limit: 75

Elinor Miller was a middle school math and English teacher for more than 30 years and devoted her “other life” to birding. For 20 years she wrote weekly bird columns for Frederick, Md., and Cape Cod newspapers, as well as articles for national publications. Birding lured her to travel worldwide.   She moved to Charlottesville two years ago and last year she taught two adult evening classes about birds at Albemarle High School.

With the assistance of PowerPoint and handouts and various other materials, you will learn how to use field guides to identify local and migrating birds and how to make your yard bird-friendly, especially for our fall and winter birds.

Suggested Reading: Please bring a field guide to birds of North America to the first class.  If you don’t own one, buy/borrow a Sibley Guide to Birds: Eastern North America, available at local bird supply stores.