• Beginning Bird Photography

    Sarasota Audubon Nature Center 999 Center Road, Sarasota, FL

    Beginning Bird Photograpy with Forrest Rowland Saturday, Mar. 14 9:00 AM – 10:30 PM A Beginner’s Guide to Bird Photography, 1.5 hours – SAS Nature Center, garden, and Celery Fields boardwalk. This comprehensive course covers essential bird photography skills. Registration Required

    $10 – $20
  • Florida Native Plant Workshop Part 3

    Sarasota Audubon Nature Center 999 Center Road, Sarasota, FL

    Native Plant Landscape Designer and Eco Artist Pam Callender  will teach us why native plant gardening is so vital to our local landscape and how everyone can incorporate natives into their yards. Each month adds to information from the month before, beginning with a recap. The talks will last 2 hours, they will cover: Creating...

  • Wingspan, Wednesday Afternoon – *MEMBERS ONLY EVENT

    Sarasota Audubon Nature Center 999 Center Road, Sarasota, FL

    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...

  • Butterflies of the Sarasota Audubon Nature Center

    Sarasota Audubon Nature Center 999 Center Road, Sarasota, FL

    A Beginner’s Guide to Butterflies, 1.5 hours – SAS Nature Center and Native Gardens. This comprehensive course covers SAS Plants-Nectar and Host Butterflies they attract Life Stages of Butterflies Mating and Reproduction Annual cycle and survival Attracting butterflies to your garden Tips for Breeding with a cage/hutch Citizen Science Contributions Learn how native plants host...

    $10 – $20
  • 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
  • Birding 305: Warblers & Similar Species

    Sarasota Audubon Nature Center 999 Center Road, Sarasota, FL

    Birding 305 Warblers and Similar Species ID with John Groskopf Saturday, April 4 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Advanced Bird ID focused on Warblers and similar species with John Groskopf. In this comprehensive classroom course you will discover the key identification markers for various warblers and similar species. Meet inside the Nature Center at 5:30 p.m....

    $20 – $40