April Bird Language Club at Swan Lake

April Bird Language Club

Saturday April 27 2024 at Swan Lake

(lək'ʷəŋən territory)

9am–11:30am

What can birds tell us about the world around us when we listen closely? Join us for another meeting of the bird language club. After three fun and informative events in 2023, we will be gathering again to share teachings on the five voices of the birds and practice our sitting and mapping skills as a group. Open to complete beginners, and anyone who is an expert in Bird Sound ID will greatly improve our mapping efforts. After we chat, sit and map there will be time for casual walking and birding around Swan Lake.

Birds pay attention to everything happening around them because their survival depends on it! When we pay attention to what they are saying, we can learn so much about the world around us, and about who else is inhabiting our surroundings.

There is a wild avian conversation happening all around us that does not take place using human-made words or language. It exists in sound, gesture, feeling and silence. It communicates a constantly unfolding story of place that we are all a part of.

—Weaving Earth

This meet-up is entirely free and you are welcome to just show up at Swan Lake without registering. But if you register, I will send some reminders and resources to help deepen the bird language learning in advance and following the event. Any questions email Julian Evans ([email protected]). Read about our event last year and sign up for email updates through Substack.

The Swan Lake Nature Sanctuary is on the ancestral territories of the lək'ʷəŋən peoples, as represented today by the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations, and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples, including the W̱JOȽEȽP (Tsartlip), BOḰEĆEN (Pauquachin), SȾÁUTW̱ (Tsawout), W̱SIḴEM (Tseycum) and MÁLEXEȽ (Malahat) Nations. Their historical relationships to these lands and waters continue to this day.

Photos by Brad Herrit (@brads.bird.photos)

Host or Publisher Julian Evans and Jenna Rudolph