Displays that engage

Easttown Library created a display with books on birds and birding and a Celebrate Urban Birds display with the Celebrate Urban Birds PowerPoint  slideshow, kits, and books and videos for children about birds and birding. In addition they had a display case with bird figurines and art pieces.

 
Bird Walks and Movies

On Saturday, June 21, Easttown Library and Valley Forge Audubon Society organized a bird walk at Mill Grove in Audubon, Pa. (http://pa.audubon.org/centers_mill_grove.html). Vince Smith, president of Valley Forge Audubon Society, led the walk, and 25 people attended.  On Thursday, June 19 they held a bird-themed family movie night at the library, and 38 people attended.

Community Feedback

Easttown Library received a lot of positive feedback on the program.

Jillian Kalonick, writes,
"We appreciate being able to offer it to our community. The bird walk especially inspired that sense of wonder that makes a program particularly rewarding. It's usually difficult to draw enough people to justify a library program in the summer months, but an early morning bird walk in June was a perfect program to offer.

Vince is extremely knowledgeable, and he educated attendees not only on the birds that we saw, but on many other pressing environmental issues, including the decline in bees, the depletion of natural forests by earthworms, Lyme disease, etc. He also posted the information from our walk on eBird (which he uses frequently)." 
 

Thank you Easttown for a great program!