Volunteer at Bedford Audubon’s New Habitat Garden!
Join us for our Garden Volunteer Hours. You’ll work alongside professional native gardener Missy Fabel and fellow volunteers to get our garden ready for first blooms and to maintain it through the season. We also need garden tour guides. We can train you!
 
No registration required. Sessions held every Tuesday, 9-11 AM.

This series of three classes will focus on drawing birds, from finding basic shapes to defining accurate anatomy and building value through shading. Participants will work from provided photographs of birds to learn the stages of creating a representational drawing. The class will also cover the basics of bird anatomy, specifically as it applies to the drawing process, including, simple skeletal structure, feather groups and proportions. By the end of the workshop, participants will have an anatomically accurate fully rendered bird drawing.Come draw some birds with us and learn a little bit about them in the process!

Charlotte Holden is a local artist and illustrator who has worked with BedfordAudubon for several years, initially running our first Paint Night while still a student at RISD, and a series of introductory workshops earlier this year.

Each class will be two hours, and participants will register for the full series of three workshops. The fee will help offset our cost of this series and includes all art supplies and materials.

Saturdays September 7 and 21, October 5, 10am-12pm. Experience Level: All Levels welcome. Cost: $135 per person for all three workshops: the fee will help offset our costs and includes all art supplies and materials. Class size is limited to 10 participants, and we cannot take registrations for individual classes.

Volunteer at Bedford Audubon’s New Habitat Garden!
Join us for our Garden Volunteer Hours. You’ll work alongside professional native gardener Missy Fabel and fellow volunteers to get our garden ready for first blooms and to maintain it through the season. We also need garden tour guides. We can train you!
 
No registration required. Sessions held every Tuesday, 9-11 AM.

Volunteer at Bedford Audubon’s New Habitat Garden!
Join us for our Garden Volunteer Hours. You’ll work alongside professional native gardener Missy Fabel and fellow volunteers to get our garden ready for first blooms and to maintain it through the season. We also need garden tour guides. We can train you!
 
No registration required. Sessions held every Tuesday, 9-11 AM.

Aftera summer break, we would like to welcome you back to Katonah Village Library for our Monthly Lecture Series.

While countless citizens have mobilized to reduce the effects of habitat loss by planting native plants on their property, a key component of a healthy ecosystem has been largely overlooked: fleshy fruit. These fruits, and the trees and bushes that bear them, turn out to be critical for the well-being of native American birds – and you have the potential to help spread them! 

Nina Vigil is a senior at John Jay High School, a student in the Science Research Program, and a member of the New York State Young Birders Club. Working under the mentorship of famed entomologist Douglas Tallamy, Nina has developed a year-long independent research project examining the vegetation preferences of birds. Using plots in local Katonah yards and in Ward Pound Ridge Reservation she studied the impact of fleshy-fruit bearing plants on local bird populations.

Thispresentation is a collaboration between Bedford Audubon and our hosts, KatonahVillage Library and will feature a free raffle for two signed copies of Doug Tallamy’s books, Nature’s Best Hope and The Nature of Oaks.

Wednesday, September 18, 7:00pm. Cost: Free. No registration is required. Join us for refreshments from 6:45pm ahead of Nina’s presentation.