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Mini-Tutorial: Three Things To Help Birds
The DBC Board is pleased to present Mini-Tutorials on the DBC YouTube Channel. Denis Kania presents three things you can do in your backyard to help birds: provide shelter, food, and water. With a diversity of offerings-not all species want the same things-almost half of DuPage’s 268 bird species could be attracted to your yard. Many of these birds pass through during their vulnerable migration time: all the more motivation to help them. Shelter takes the form of houses and, especially, vegetation. Food-especially insects!-is critical. Again, this is often vegetation, so reduce turf lawn and add more native flowers, shrubs, […]
10th Anniversary Big Fun Morning June 5
Get ready for a Big Fun Morning as we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Club’s first Big Day in 2012. We will bird from 5 am (if your team wants to do some owling) and quit at noon. We will bird at ONE site. This keeps us relatively “green” by not wasting fuel and keeps us outside and avoiding carpooling, in case there’s another variant headed our way. We’ll meet for lunch afterwards at Hidden Lake – we’ve got the picnic shelter reserved all day, and plan to have food arrive by 1 pm. How can you participate? There […]
Second Quarter Outreach Programs
The DuPage Birding Club is proud to announce the Outreach Programs for the second quarter. Topics include Beginning Birdwatching: The Great Backyard Bird Count, Bird Walk at Fountaindale Library, and Non-native Plant and Animal Presentation. For additional program information and registration details go to the Learn About Birds/Outreach.