LGBTQ+ and allies: Let’s Go Birding Together at Durant Nature Preserve
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LGBTQ+ and allies: Let’s Go Birding Together at Durant Nature Preserve!
Saturday, September 19, 8:15* a.m. - 10:30 a.m. (*Arrive at 8:00 if borrowing binoculars.)
RSVP to this event here on Meetup. Or off-Meetup via this form if you prefer to keep your RSVP private.
Sponsors: Wake Audubon and the LGBT Center of Raleigh.
Let’s enjoy late summer - and early fall migrants - with another affirming and inclusive bird outing. We welcome the LGBTQ+ community, allies, families, and anyone who wants to enjoy an outdoor experience that is inclusive. Why? Because the outdoors has not always been a welcoming place for persons who identify as LGBTQ+ and Wake Audubon and the LGBT Center of Raleigh seek to help change that.
The pace of this outing will be geared towards building our beginner birding skills.
We’ll take a leisurely stroll along easy-to-traverse paved and soft trails with slight grade changes, with plenty of space and time to stop, see and listen for the various birds that prefer Durant Nature Preserve's forests and thicket edges along our approximately 1.5-mile trail.
Borrow binoculars from us or bring your own. If borrowing binoculars, please arrive at 8:00 a.m. to be provided a pair and receive personalized help to focus them for your eyesight.
Note: 8:15 is a little earlier start for this event - yet, we're intentionally trying get on trail ahead of some shelter rentals possibly impacting the birds we might see.
Driving directions: NORTH entrance of Durant Nature Preserve at the end of Camp Durant Road. (Note: There is also a south entrance on Spottswood Drive; we won't be there.) Park in the paved lot. Look for others with binoculars gathered in the lot near the Park Office. Gendered restrooms are available there.
Please bring your own refillable water bottle. We'll bring plenty of snacks to share.
What bird species frequent the Park? Check out Durant Nature Preserve bird sightings ahead of us adding a checklist of our own on ebird.org.
Leader is Lynn Erla Beegle, 919-673-6136, with co-leaders along to help with optics and bird sightings.
Questions ahead? Reach your organizer and host - Wake Audubon board member and Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging co-chair Rick LaRose at [rlarose.was@gmail.com](mailto:rlarose.was@gmail.com)
We’re looking forward to birding together with you on September 19!
Wake Audubon advocates wildlife, nature and environmental conservation with a commitment to providing activities where all can safely access and celebrate nature as their authentic selves.
The LGBT Center of Raleigh envisions an inclusive world where LGBTQ+ people are thriving, equal, and valued members of society.