The Wildbird General Store

Title: Christmas Bird Count
Location: Edmonton
Description: Join Edmonton-area birders for this annual event. Sign up at the December 18 event at the Royal Alberta Museum or The Wildbird General Store. Come to the John Janzen Nature Centre for the count wrap-up and supper. Bring a potluck dish of your choice.
Date: 2009-12-20

Title: Bird Count
Location: Gold Bar/Rundle Parks
Description: The open water produced by the Gold Bar sewage plant attracts over-wintering waterfowl. A morning walk along the river may produce some interesting duck species. Bald Eagles and other raptors may be seen. Leader: Brian Stephens.
Meet at 10:00 a.m. Gold Bar parking lot east of the water treatment plant.
Should be finished early afternoon, easy walking.
Contact Brian at 780-439-2841.
After the conclusion of the morning activities in Gold Bar Park we will eat lunch at the heated shelter and then walk over to Rundle Park and along Ada Blvd and 108 Ave. We will use spotting scopes to find what ducks have taken residence in the Gold Bar clarified ponds.
Leader for this portion of the day is Michael Frost.
Meet at heated shelter at 12 noon, should be finished at 2:30 p.m.
Contact Michael at greenland@yahoo.com
Date: 2009-12-06

Learn from experienced naturalists how to setup and maintain your backyard bird habitat.  These sessions are great for those who want to feed wild birds but don’t know where to start.   Starter set ups are now on sale  (see the specials page).

Come into the store for a Free demonstration.

When: every Thursday @ 7:0o