4 weekly sessions: Sundays, January 19 through February 9.  1-3:30 p.m.  Ages 7-12.  $25 prepaid for full 4 sessions.  Registration and payment by January 6.  Call 708.747.6320.

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. Learn key shapes, markings, habits and songs for our most common local birds with crafts, activities, sounds and hikes. 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.

Photo by Stacy Pisani.