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Audubon Bird and Barn Festival

  • Green Mountain Audubon Center - Sugarhouse Field 214 Main Road Richmond, VT, 05477 United States (map)

I’ll be leading a fundraising walk at 8 am for this day-long celebration at the Green Mountain Audubon Center in Huntington. Please visit the festival webpage to learn more and to review their COVID safety guidelines. See you there!

Fun for the whole family. Bird walks, live birds, bird banding, face painting, naturalist-led walks, bird sculpture carving, scavenger hunts, art projects, and more! Plan to spend a couple of hours or the entire day.

Our newly renovated Education Barn will be open for viewing. There will be a rolling slideshow of the renovation and select images from National Audubon's 2018 Photography Awards show on display.

Dress for the weather as this celebration will happen rain or shine. Please leave your dogs at home. Register in advance for these special events:

Embracing Autumn Birding

An Audubon Vermont Fundraiser at the Audubon Bird and Barn Festival
Saturday, September 25, 2021
8:00am - 9:30am

Join Bird Diva, Bridget Butler on a fall outing to celebrate birds and fall migration. Autumn birding is full of surprises from young birds testing out their wings to birds on the move during migration. Bridget will share some practices to help you fine-tune how you observe birds during this season and help you prepare for the ebbs and flows of fall migration. We'll be birding the trails on the lower part of the property that explore the fields and the sugarbush.

This outing is appropriate for birders from beginner to advanced, everyone is welcome! Binoculars will be available to borrow. 

This program will be limited to 15 participants. Click here to learn more and register.

Birding at the Audubon Bird and Barn Festival

A birding event for all abilities at the Audubon Bird and Barn Festival
Saturday, September 25, 2021
8:00am - 9:30am 

Join local birder, Ali Wagner on a free autumn birding outing focused on fall migration. The trails of the Green Mountain Audubon Center offer a wonderful diversity of habitats in a small space, offering a little something different for all kinds of birds. We will explore at the ponds, the sugarbush, the fields, and the river. We will use both sight and sound to witness our avian neighbors, observing their behavior as they either embark upon their migration journey or prepare for the changing of the seasons in Vermont. 

This outing is appropriate for birders from beginner to advanced, everyone is welcome! Binoculars will be available to borrow. 

This program will be limited to 15 participants. Click here to learn more and register.

Bird-Friendly Maple Sugarbush Exploration

A birding conservation event for all abilities at the Audubon Bird and Barn Festival
Saturday, September 25, 2021
1:00pm - 2:00pm

Do you love the taste of maple syrup?  Enjoy hearing the songs of birds in the woods?

Join Steve Hagenbuch, Audubon Vermont Conservation Biologist, for an interactive exploration of Audubon Vermont’s Bird-Friendly Maple sugarbush. There will be the opportunity to purchase Audubon’s wood-fired, maple syrup produced in our bird-friendly sugarbush. Please bring cash if you’re planning to go home with some syrup!

This outing is appropriate for birders from beginner to advanced, everyone is welcome! Binoculars will be available to borrow.

This program will be limited to 20 participants. Click here to learn more and register.

Earlier Event: September 22
Birding & Wellness at VCPI Health Conference
Later Event: October 1
The Herstory of Birding ~ IN PERSON