Purpose of Meeting
Birding 101-Registration required
A 2 hour class on Friday April 5 from 2-4 PM at the Cottonwood Library. Then a 3 hour field trip Saturday morning April 6 from 8-11 at the Sedona Wetlands and a yard set up for birds. Limit 20 people. Cost = FREE! Rich Armstrong will help you learn why birding is a great hobby, how to begin birding, how to identify birds, where to bird, and learn what birds are here in the Verde Valley. Class is sponsored by Northern Arizona Audubon Society.
Rich Armstrong got a PhD in Nuclear Inorganic Chemistry from Stanford. He spent 5 ½ years in the Army as a nuclear and chemical officer including jumping out of airplanes in Korea and as a Professor of Chemistry at West Point. He also spent 15 years in Army Reserves retiring as a Major. He worked 20 years for Texaco and was part of the team that invented long life coolant. He has been birding in Texas, Oregon, and now Arizona, for 33 years. Rich is the coordinator of the Sedona CBC, is the birding pal for the Verde Valley, and coordinates the North America Migratory Bird Count for Yavapai County. He is the local Audubon Chapter Steward for the Sedona Wetlands Preserve and has led over 100 birding field trips here.