• 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...

  • Mushroom Log Workshop

    Sarasota Audubon Nature Center 999 Center Road, Sarasota, FL

    This workshop is a hands-on introduction to an easy method of mushroom cultivation. We'll spend the first hour inside covering the basics. We will take a snack and tea break and then we'll head outside to inoculate oak logs with pink oyster spawn. Each participant takes home their log and a care booklet. All materials...

  • Nature Journaling with Big Waters Land Trust

    Sarasota Audubon Nature Center 999 Center Road, Sarasota, FL

    Join us for a guided nature journaling event, where participants will learn to observe and record the natural world through drawing and writing. This hands-on program offers a relaxing way to connect with nature while sharpening observation skills. This program is suitable for all ages, but does require periods of sustained focus and quiet observation....

  • Bluebirds, Bluebirds, Bluebirds!

    Sarasota Audubon Nature Center 999 Center Road, Sarasota, FL

    Faith Jones of the Florida Bluebird Society will give us the latest information on these beautiful jewels.

  • 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...

  • Return to the Sky – Bald Eagle Reintroduction

    Sarasota Audubon Nature Center 999 Center Road, Sarasota, FL

    Tina Morris, Ornithologist, regales us with Return to the Sky - Bald Eagle Reintroduction. In the spring of 1975, on the eve of the US Bicentennial, Tina was selected to reintroduce Bald Eagles into New York State in the hope that the species could eventually repopulate eastern North America. This presentation is based on her...

  • 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
  • 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 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