The Vermont Bird Place & Sky Watch and local birders meet to conduct a survey of the wild birds present on the grounds of Hildene. For more information, please call Randy Schmidt at (802) 362-2270 or email randy@thevermontbirdplace.com. Meet at the Welcome Center Parking Lot, 8:00 am, Free. Note: In order to be at Hildene at 8 AM, we will leave from Shaws in Waitsfield at 5:15 AM.
Celebration of Peonies
Traditionally the last two weeks of May and the first two weeks of June when the Formal Garden signals the beginning of the season with 1,000’s of peony blooms; many of them from the original 1907 plants.
Let’s enjoy birds and blooms on this trip. Contact Patti Haynes for Mad Birder organization (496-2220)
January 10th, 2011 at 4:31 pm
This is a wonderful opportunity to multi-task…go birding and enjoy the beautiful grounds of Hildene at the same time. I hope many Mad Birders will be interested in stepping out of “the valley” to attend.