Birding for Life Sunrise Celebration

This is our first Birding for Life Walk of 2023. We will be celebrating the coming of Spring, the Equinox, Ostara, and Easter by greeting the sun as she rises over all the earth.

We will do about a 2 mile walk, most of it on pavement, but some along a wooded trail. If you'd like to participate but aren't sure about how you'd do, please contact me so we can make other arrangements.

Watching birds can lead to greater human satisfaction, happiness, and health. By being aware of birds, we can also grow our ability to focus and to rest in the current moment, as well as grow our compassion and justice centered behaviors to help care for ourselves, others, and the planet. Birds, humans, and the earth are in trouble and with strong connections to the living community around us, we can save ourselves and all life.

Birding for Life walks aim to grow our ability to transform ourselves and our world by watching birds as an intentional mindfulness practice. This is enhanced by an emphasis on our relationships and connections to the humans who join us for the walk and the other species with whom we will interact.

This walk will be led by renown avian conservationist, Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner, who is a community minister at the local Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation at White Plains (http://www.cucwp.org) and Co-director of One Earth Conservation ( http://www.oneearthconservation.org). We ask for a $5 donation to help cover costs of the Meetup Group - all donations will go towards bird conservation in the Americas. You can pay here or at the One Earth Conservation donation page: https://www.oneearthconservation.org/donate

To attend, please make reservations here. Bring comfortable walking shoes, binoculars if you have them, and water and nourishment as needed. Do not attend if you are ill.

We will meet in the Playland parking lot at the entrance to the Edith G. Read Wildlife Sanctuary in Rye, NY. at 6 a.m. This is not where the nature center is, but before you pass through the gates. Check back here for any updates if we need to change plans due to the weather. If you can't find us or get lost, you can contact LoraKim at: +19143259574.