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  • Beginning Nature Journaling with Jenny Cherry

    Sarasota Audubon Nature Center 999 Center Road, Sarasota, FL

    A nature journal is a lens that focuses your attention, enriches your experiences, and develops your skills as a naturalist. This practice also enhances your observations, curiosity, and joy. Nature Journaling can consist of field notes, field sketches, observations, thoughts, feelings, or anything that captures your curiosity. For this Beginner's art class, Jenny will review...

    $20

  • Evolution of Birds & Taxonomy

    Sarasota Audubon Nature Center 999 Center Road, Sarasota, FL

    Learn about the early ancestors of birds, how geology both prehistoric and contemporary has affected bird evolution, and come full circle to today's accepted Taxonomy with a nod to the research and techniques that have brought us to this understanding. Register Here

    $20 – $40

  • Duette Preserve with Forrest Rowland – Early Birds *MEMBERS ONLY

    Duette Bear Bay Bear Bay Road, Myakka City, FL, United States

    For those early risers interesting in trying for Chuck-will's-widow & Eastern Whip-poor-will, now's your chance! We will meet early at the Bear Bay Road Entrance to Duette Preserve, to search these out, as well as Barred Owl. We will reconvene with participants interested in only the diurnal species back at the entrance, and go for...

  • Duette Preserve with Forrest Rowland – *MEMBERS ONLY

    Duette Bear Bay Bear Bay Road, Myakka City, FL, United States

    Participants interested in only the diurnal species will go for a few short walks from the parking area in search of the Florida subspecies of Grasshopper Sparrow, habitat specialist Bachman's Sparrow, and hope for perhaps running into other rarities like Vesper, White-throated, or White-crowned Sparrows. Pine specialists such as Brown-headed Nuthatch reside here, as do...

  • Wingspan, The Game – Beginners Welcome – *MEMBERS ONLY

    Wingspan, The Game – Beginners Welcome – *MEMBERS ONLY EVENT

    Learn about birds and their habitats, food, nests, etc. while playing a competitive game. Wingspan is a card-driven, resource-building board game in which players compete to attract birds to their wildlife reserves. Players spend food resources to add birds, which are represented by 170 individually illustrated cards, to the forest, prairie, and wetland habitats on...

  • Carefree Learner – April 6, 2026

    Marina Jack Boat Docks 2 Marina Plaza, Sarasota, FL, United States

    Boat tours to Roberts Bay Rookery inVenice on the Carefree Learner. See hundreds of nesting herons, egrets, spoonbills and more. The boat is docked near downtown Sarasota, south of Marina Jack’s restaurant. Take Ringling Blvd., off 41/Tamiami Trail, toward the water and into the parking lot. Our boat, the Carefree Learner, is docked next to...

    $30.00

  • Old Miakka Preserve with Stu Wilson

    Old Miakka Preserve Fruitville Rd & Myakka Rd, Sarasota, FL, United States

    "East end of Fruitville Rd. Continue on the gravel road to the entrance ½ mile on right."

  • Advanced Nature Journaling with Jenny Cherry

    Sarasota Audubon Nature Center 999 Center Road, Sarasota, FL

    For this Advanced art class, Jenny will show how to draw a Purple Martin, especially since we have a large nesting box (like a hotel for Martins!) at the SAS Nature Center. Jenny will discuss Purple Martins and why we have the nesting boxes on site in the first place. We may even have the opportunity to...

    $40

  • Birding 201

    Sarasota Audubon Nature Center 999 Center Road, Sarasota, FL

    Note Birding 101 Classes are Free, Registration will open the first day of the month in which they are offered.

    $10 – $20

  • Second Monday Celery Field Walk

    Raymond Road Boardwalk 1550 Raymond Road, Sarasota, FL, United States

    Meet at Raymond Rd Boardwalk. Parking on side of road. Porta potty on site.