Impress your friends this spring with your birding smarts, binocular savvy and your very own life list of birds you have seen. Come get an early start with this popular hobby – bird watching. In the Sunday sessions, learn key shapes, markings, habits and songs for our most common local birds with crafts, activities, sounds and hikes. Create special projects for display at Beginning Birding for All program February 16. Join the 9 a.m. Beginning Bird Hike and host activities at that event.

Price includes your own field guide to birds.   Sponsored by the Thorn Creek Audubon Society. This program will be held indoors in an accessible facility.  For the hikes participants should be able to walk 1 mile outdoors on natural surface trails across uneven and possibly wet/muddy terrain.

4 weekly sessions Sundays, January 13 through February 3, 1-3:30 p.m. and Saturday, February 16, 9 a.m.-noon.   Ages 7-12   $20 prepaid for full 5 sessions   Registration and payment by Wednesday, January 2:   708.747.6320.