Gary Bogue: Wild birds help us connect with nature
If you like wild birds, you will love Native Bird Connections.
This wonderful nonprofit organization has a beautiful and beloved collection of live, tame, nonreleasable eagles, falcons, hawks and owls that it uses to educate groups of all ages. They work with these magnificent birds to bring the wonders of nature up close and personal to thousands of our children every year by visiting classrooms all over the East Bay.
Last year Native Bird Connections presented 584 programs that touched the lives of 17,792 people of all ages — including schools, scouts, senior living programs, after school enrichment, state and national park programs. As Native Bird Connections supports our children in their search for knowledge of the natural world around us, this organization also needs our financial support to help them survive these tough times.
To help us support this vital organization, Wild Birds Unlimited of Pleasant Hill, 692 Contra Costa Blvd. (across from Sun Valley Shopping Center) is holding “A Day for Mom & A Day for Mother Nature,” 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday.
Wild birds AND Gary Bogue AND the Martinez Beavers. What could possibly be better than that? We’ll be there answering questions and talking castor, so maybe you should stop by to hear the latest! Guess how many beavers we saw this morning? I’ll give you a hint. It rhymes with their favorite word.
