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Meet Your Wildest Bird Neighbors

Secret Garden Birds and Bees
2022-05-21 13:30:00 2022-05-21 14:15:00 America/New_York Meet Your Wildest Bird Neighbors Join Secret Garden Birds and Bees to learn about the birds of prey living right in your own backyard. Ellen Coolidge Burke Branch Library - Outdoors

Saturday, May 21
1:30pm - 2:15pm

Add to Calendar 2022-05-21 13:30:00 2022-05-21 14:15:00 America/New_York Meet Your Wildest Bird Neighbors Join Secret Garden Birds and Bees to learn about the birds of prey living right in your own backyard. Ellen Coolidge Burke Branch Library - Outdoors

Join Secret Garden Birds and Bees to learn about the birds of prey living right in your own backyard.

Meet our wildlife ambassadors - Scarlett (barred owl), Kvosir (screech owl), Phantom (barn owl), and Pippin (American kestrel) - who will help us tell the story of how they are learning to live and thrive among us in an increasingly human world. Learn how to identify our native raptors and how to find them. (All ages, children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult)

AGE GROUP: | All Ages |

EVENT TYPE: | Family | All Alexandria Reads |

TAGS: | owls | outdoors | hawks | birds | All Alexandria Reads |

Ellen Coolidge Burke Branch Library
jlambert@alexlibraryva.org
Phone: 703.746.1704
Fax: 703.746.1775
Branch manager
Jherusha Lambert
Hours
Mon, Apr 28 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Tue, Apr 29 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Wed, Apr 30 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Thu, May 01 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Fri, May 02 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Sat, May 03 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun, May 04 1:00PM to 5:00PM
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