Sharing the joy of birds and nature is at the core of everything we do at Wild Birds Unlimited. We love playing an active role in the local community by hosting bird walks and giving educational presentations. This page is updated weekly, but feel free to call the store or your local club for the most up to date information.

 

 

Bristol Bird Club

The Bristol Bird Club will resume their monthly walks at Steele Creek Park on Thursday, September 12th at 9:00 am. Meet-up at the Mill Creek Parking area on Broad Street. Fall migrants (mostly warblers) have been showing up in the Tri-cities of late.

Kingsport Bird Club

Birding Kingsport will host Tim Lenz from Chattanooga on October 22, 2024 for his presentation "Birding Tech Evolution: eBird's Impact and Beyond," from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

Tim is a software developer and lifelong birder and is a co-founder of BirdingApp. He served as a key developer on the eBird project for 17 years at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

The program will be in room 131 at the Kingsport Center for Higher Education at 300 W. Market St. in Kingsport. The public is welcome and encouraged to attend this interesting and educational evening.

Elizabethton Bird Club

Club meets at 7 p.m. first Tuesday of the month, except July and August, at the Elizabethton campus of Northeast State Community College.

Brayden Paulk, a young naturalist with family ties in Unicoi County, will present the first program on Tuesday, Sept. 3, with a talk on “Microfishing,” which involves anglers focusing on a diverse array of tiny species of fish.

The guest speaker for the meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 1, will be Mark Stevens. A former publisher for The Erwin Record, he will present a program titled “Building a Birding Festival” that will focus on his development of the Hammock Coast Birding Festival in South Carolina.

Vern Maddux, the treasurer for the club, will be the speaker on Tuesday, Nov. 5. Maddux is a world traveler when it comes to seeing birds and will present a program on one of his recent international birding adventures to South Georgia and Falklands.