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Birding with Quentin and Owen ReiserActivity Level: Easy
Dates: Friday May 8, 2026 Time: 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. Meeting Location: Maumee Bay Nature Center (Click for Google Maps) Fee: $50 Registration Required Limited to 20 participants NO TRANSPORTATION PROVIDED About Quentin and owen
Just two brothers that got into birdwatching one year. |
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Birding with Laura EricksonActivity Level: Easy
Dates: Saturday May 9, 2026 Time: 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. Meeting Location: Maumee Bay Nature Center (Click for Google Maps) Fee: $50 Registration Required Limited to 20 participants NO TRANSPORTATION PROVIDED About Laura
Laura is a birder, conservationist, educator, former wildlife rehabber, author of a dozen books about birds, and, since 1986, producer of "For the Birds," the longest running radio program about birds in the country. |
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Birding with Coralie RossbachActivity Level: Easy
Dates: Sunday May 10, 2026 Time: 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. Meeting Location: Maumee Bay Nature Center (Click for Google Maps) Fee: $50 Registration Required Limited to 20 participants NO TRANSPORTATION PROVIDED About Coralie
Coralie Rossbach is an eighth grader from Austin, Texas, who studies hummingbird migration. Her research includes studying changes in Rufous Hummingbird migration patterns over time, and their relationship to habitat destruction, as well as correlations between hummingbird population behaviors and environmental phenomena such as weather. She has presented her research at the Wilson Ornithological Society Conference, and given a keynote presentation at the Ohio Young Birder’s Conference. Her research has also won 1st place at the Greater Austin Regional Science Fair. When not photographing, watching, or studying birds, she enjoys drawing, blacksmithing, and aerial silks. |
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Birding with Joanna WuActivity Level: Easy
Dates: Monday May 11, 2026 Time: 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. Meeting Location: Maumee Bay Nature Center (Click for Google Maps) Fee: $50 Registration Required Limited to 20 participants NO TRANSPORTATION PROVIDED About Joanna
Joanna Wu is a PhD student studying female birds in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA. She previously worked at the National Audubon Society and is a member of the Galbatross Project, a group of birders, scientists, writers, and conservationists who are passion-ate about spreading awareness about female birds. |
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Birding with Scott WeidensaulActivity Level: Easy
Dates: Tuesday May 12, 2026 Time: 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. Meeting Location: Maumee Bay Nature Center (Click for Google Maps) Fee: $50 Registration Required Limited to 20 participants NO TRANSPORTATION PROVIDED About Scott
Scott Weidensaul is the author of nearly 30 books on natural history, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist "Living on the Wind" and his the New York Times bestseller "A World on the Wing." His latest book, Return of the Oystercatcher, coming in April 2026, showcases what’s working for bird conservation around the world. Weidensaul is a contributing editor for Audubon magazine, a columnist for Bird Watcher’s Digest, and writes for a variety of other publications including Living Bird. He is a Fellow of the American Ornithological Society and an active field researcher, studying saw-whet owl migration for 30 years, as well as winter hummingbirds in the East, bird migration in Alaska, and the winter movements of snowy owls through Project SNOWstorm, which he co-founded. |
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Birding with Day ScottActivity Level: Easy
Dates: Wednesday May 13, 2026 Time: 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. Meeting Location: Maumee Bay Nature Center (Click for Google Maps) Fee: $50 Registration Required Limited to 20 participants NO TRANSPORTATION PROVIDED About day
Day Scott is a disabled wildlife ecologist, photographer, and science communicator who is passionate about the natural world and our relationship with it. After a life-changing car accident involving a herd of pronghorn antelope left her with a traumatic brain injury, she turned to nature during her recovery. She found calmness in watching birds and joy in photographing them—an experience that helped her reconnect with the world around her and inspired her path toward wildlife research. Her work has spanned from studying forest owls in the Chiricahua Mountains and burrowing owls across the American West to land snails in the Peruvian Andes. Today, her impact reaches global audiences through collaborations with the Irwin family at Australia Zoo, and she is featured in Jennifer Ackerman’s bestselling book What an Owl Knows (Penguin Random House, 2023). Her wildlife photography has also been featured on Animal Planet, Discovery, and other major media outlets. Day is a graduate researcher at the University of Idaho studying animal movement and behavior in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. She and her research are featured in the documentary series Saving Yellowstone. Day is also a co-author of the forthcoming book Inclusive Nature (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026). As both a scientist and an influential communicator, she uses storytelling to build awareness, inspire appreciation, and encourage people to care for wildlife and wild places. Learn more about Day Scott at www.thewildernessgoddess.com. |
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Birding with Virginia RoseActivity Level: Easy
Dates: Thursday May 14, 2026 Time: 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. Meeting Location: Maumee Bay Nature Center (Click for Google Maps) Fee: $50 Registration Required Limited to 20 participants NO TRANSPORTATION PROVIDED About virginia
Virginia Rose is the founder of Birdability. In 1973 at age 14, she was paralyzed in a horseback-riding accident and has used a manual wheelchair ever since, 52 years now! Twenty-two years ago, she discovered birding and life changed. Seeing no other disabled people birding, she decided to find them and introduce them to birding. She founded Birdability in 2018 and is proud and honored to report that the Birdability Map boasts more than 2000 birding sites with access information across the U.S. and 15 other countries! We have over 75 Birdability Captains nationwide who are helping people with access challenges experience the joy of birding! Virginia likes to say she found her best self and her greatest happiness in birding. |
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Birding with Rosemary MoscoActivity Level: Easy
Dates: Friday May 15, 2026 Time: 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. Meeting Location: Maumee Bay Nature Center (Click for Google Maps) Fee: $50 Registration Required Limited to 20 participants NO TRANSPORTATION PROVIDED About rosemary
Rosemary is an author, illustrator, and speaker whose work connects people with the natural world. She has made many science books for kids and adults, and creates the nature comic Bird and Moon, which won the National Cartoonists Society’s award for Best Online Short Form Comic and was the subject of an award-winning museum exhibit. She’s written and drawn for The New York Times, Audubon, Rewiring America, the PBS Kids show Elinor Wonders Why, Ranger Rick, and more, and makes a regular comic strip in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Living Bird magazine. She does a pretty good White-throated Sparrow impression. |
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Birding with Julie ZickefooseActivity Level: Easy
Dates: Saturday May 16, 2026 Time: 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. Meeting Location: Maumee Bay Nature Center (Click for Google Maps) Fee: $50 Registration Required Limited to 20 participants NO TRANSPORTATION PROVIDED about julie
Julie Zickefoose lives and works quietly on an 80-acre wildlife sanctuary in the back country of Whipple, Ohio. She is a prolific writer and painter who was an All Things Considered commentator for five years. Her illustrated work, The Bluebird Effect, was an Oprah's Book Club pick in 2012. After 37 years of contributing art and writing to Bird Watcher's Digest, Julie became Advising Editor to the new and improved BWD Magazine in 2022. Her heavily illustrated books include Natural Gardening for Birds, Letters from Eden, The Bluebird Effect, and Baby Birds: An Artist Looks Into the Nest. Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-Luck Jay and the newly revised and updated Birdwatching for Dummies are her two most recent titles |
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Birding with Kenn KaufmanActivity Level: Easy
Dates: Sunday May 17, 2026 Time: 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. Meeting Location: Maumee Bay Nature Center (Click for Google Maps) Fee: $50 Registration Required Limited to 20 participants NO TRANSPORTATION PROVIDED about kenn
Kenn burst onto the North American birding scene as a teenager in the 1970s hitch-hiking all over the continent in pursuit of birds, an adventure later chronicled in his cult-classic book Kingbird Highway. After several years as a professional bird tour leader taking groups to all seven continents, he transitioned to a career as a writer, editor, and illustrator. Most of his energy currently goes into book projects and painting bird portraits. His 13 books include seven titles in his own series, Kaufman Field Guides, which are designed to encourage beginners by making the first steps in nature study as easy as possible. His most recent book was The Birds That Audubon Missed, published in May 2024. Kenn is a field editor for the National Audubon Society and a Fellow of the American Ornithological Society, and is the only person alive to have received the American Birding Association’s lifetime achievement award twice. |