RECOGNIZING BIRD BEHAVIORS
Once you have identified the mystery bird, ever wonder what it is doing?
Our avian friends display a fascinating array of discernible behaviors. We
will learn how to differentiate between the three broad categories of
social, grooming and feeding strategies. You will be amazed at the diversity
of activity! The class is intended for beginning to intermediate birders.
This fun-filled experience opens up a whole "new window" for your
birdwatching.
Instructor David Drummond is founder and President of the Merlin Falcon
Foundation and a Research Wildlife Biologist, guide and naturalist. David
is known for his enthusiastic approach to bird identification and student
assistance.
Class: Friday, March 9, 2007, 6:30 - 9:30 PM, lecture and discussion. Class
limited to 20 participants. Registration required.
Field Trip: Saturday, March 10, 2007. 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Snohomish-Skagit
County area. Transportation to be arranged at the class. Bring your lunch.
No registration for the field trip only.
Cost: Lecture and field trip $60.00 per person/ELWAS member, $75.00 per
non-ELWAS member.
Registration: Call the ELWAS office to register at (425) 576-8805.
Registration closes Tuesday, March 6.

Shorebirds of the Pacific Northwest, a class for the beginning to
intermediate shorebird enthusiast. With Tim Boyer, instructor.
Shorebirds offer some of the most difficult challenges in bird
identification, with the dowitchers, golden plovers, and all those small
brownish little peeps. This class will cover 38 species of shorebirds, all
of the common ones and a few uncommon ones that seem to show up every year.
We'll start the first evening with an over view of all 38 species then
discuss a system and a methodology for breaking down identification. To
maximize learning in the short amount of class time, we'll review over 500
digital shorebird images. Viewing species such as Greater and Lesser
Yellowlegs virtually side-by-side will enhance your learning curve. We'll
cover some of the more perplexing problems on the second evening and on the
field trip. Since the best way to understand any identification problem
with birds is to spend time in the field, we'll spend a full day (dawn to
dusk) in the field. The field trip is scheduled at the peak of shorebird
migration on the Washington coast.
This course is designed for the beginner to intermediate birder or shorebird
enthusiast. It is not designed to be an advanced course on dowitcher and
golden plover identification. But you will have a good understanding of
these species by the time we're through. We will focus on the birds. This
is not a photography class.
Tim Boyer is the instructor for this course. An expert photographer, he has
a passion for shorebirds, his favorite group of birds. According to his
friends and family, he spends too much time photographing shorebirds during
spring and fall migration.
Class: Mondays, April 9 and 23, from 7:00 to 9:15 PM
Field trip: Long Beach Peninsula, Washington. Saturday, April 28, 2007.
Arrangements made at class session.
Cost: $60 for ELWAS members, $75 for non-ELWAS members plus share gas and
expenses for carpool to coast for field trip.
Registration: Call ELWAS office at 425-576-8805 on Monday, Tuesday or Friday
between 9:00 AM and 1:00 PM. Class limit is 20, minimum 8. No registration
for field trip only. Registration closes April 6.


Christy Anderson
Bellevue, WA