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SUMMARY:Spring Birding Course
DESCRIPTION:Spring Birding Course with Scott Surner\nFebruary 24 – June 8 2024\nClasses and field trips\nSliding scale tickets: $375\, $325\, $280\nUp to 15 participants. Registration required.  \nJune 1: Travel day. 5 am -12 pm. Southwick Wildlife Management Area. We usually come away with 40-50 species in this grassland area. Some of the past highlights have been Indigo Bunting\, Blue Grosbeak\, Grasshopper Sparrow\, Field Sparrow\, Savannah Sparrow\, and Prairie Warblers. \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://www.hitchcockcenter.org/event/spring-birding-course-9/
CATEGORIES:Adult Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240602T140000
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SUMMARY:At Home Rain Barreling
DESCRIPTION:with Mary & David Dunn\nSunday\, June 2\, 2pm – 3:30pm  ( Rain Date June 9)  \nMary and David are extraordinary volunteers at the Hitchcock Center.  They have built and maintained the rain barrel systems we use for our Discovery Yard and Teaching Gardens. This program will  join Mary and David Dunn at their home in south Amherst to see how to effectively add rain barrels to your home landscaping.  See them demonstrate materials\, winterizing\, etc.  This will teach homeowners how to set up rain barrels at home to preserve the precious resource of water and manage through increasing periods of drought ( though not this year!)  Registration required\, donations appreciated. 
URL:https://www.hitchcockcenter.org/event/at-home-rain-barreling/
CATEGORIES:Adult Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240608T050000
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SUMMARY:Spring Birding Course
DESCRIPTION:Spring Birding Course with Scott Surner\nFebruary 24 – June 8 2024\nClasses and field trips\nSliding scale tickets: $375\, $325\, $280\nUp to 15 participants. Registration required.  \nJune 8: Travel day. 5 am – 2 pm. October Mountain/Berkshire County. Nesting birds. It’s been a few years since the class has visited this area. Past highlights have been Barred Owl\, Winter Wrens\, and serval species of Warblers. \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://www.hitchcockcenter.org/event/spring-birding-course-10/
CATEGORIES:Adult Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240608T090000
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SUMMARY:Forest Bathing and Art Workshop
DESCRIPTION:with Todd Lynch\nSaturday  June 8 –  9am – 3pm\nSliding scale fee: $80\, $100\, or $120\nLimited to 12 participants \nJoin Forest Bathing guide and ecological artist Todd Lynch for a refreshing day of discovery and art making and leave with ways you can integrate these practices into your own rhythms. Forest Bathing combined with ecological art-making can offer us ways to explore our relationships across many levels. These practices root us in our senses in the present moment.
URL:https://www.hitchcockcenter.org/event/forest-bathing-and-art-workshop-2/
CATEGORIES:Adult Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240609T080000
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SUMMARY:Birding by Ear with John Green 2/2
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 15\, 8 – 10 AM\nAnd/Or\nSaturday\, June 9\, 8 – 10 AM\nSliding Scale $15\, $25\, $35\n \nSometimes the most amazing birds you can’t spot\, but their song gives them away!  Join naturalist John Green and his great ear to see what birds you can find by sight or sound during this special time of year for birds\, the height of bird migration and nesting.  
URL:https://www.hitchcockcenter.org/event/birding-by-ear-with-john-green-2-2/
CATEGORIES:Adult Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240613T203000
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SUMMARY:Fireside Chat: Firefly Ecology
DESCRIPTION:with John Green\nThursday\, June 13\, 8:30 PM \nDo you love the ephemeral season of fireflies? Or maybe you call them lightning bugs\, either way come and learn about and enjoy some guided firefly watching.  We will have a fire going and snacks so we can talk about fireflies in Hitchcock gardens before we head to fields to revel in them together.
URL:https://www.hitchcockcenter.org/event/firefly-ecology-fireside-chat/
CATEGORIES:Adult Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T180000
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SUMMARY:Battle of the Botanicals 2024
DESCRIPTION:For the first time since 2019\, join us for an evening of botanically inspired cocktails and appetizers from our area’s top mixologists and chefs to benefit the Hitchcock Center’s sustainability\, environmental justice\, natural history and STEM programming!  All proceeds help to provide year-round education for a healthy planet to over 13\,000 people of all ages. LEARN MORE. 
URL:https://www.hitchcockcenter.org/event/battle-of-the-botanicals-2024/
CATEGORIES:Adult Programs
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