June Bird Language Club at Swan Lake

June Bird Language Club

Saturday June 29 2024 at Swan Lake

(lək'ʷəŋən territory)

9am–11:30am

What can birds tell us about the world around us when we listen closely? Join us for another meeting of the bird language club. After two succesful meet-ups in April and May, we will be gathering again to share teachings on the five voices of the birds and practice our sitting and mapping skills as a group. Open to complete beginners and experts alike. After we chat, sit and map there will be time for casual walking and birding around Swan Lake.

Birds are attentive to everything happening around them because their survival depends on it! When we pay attention to what they are saying, we can learn so much about the world around us, and about who else is inhabiting our surroundings.

There is a wild avian conversation happening all around us that does not take place using human-made words or language. It exists in sound, gesture, feeling and silence. It communicates a constantly unfolding story of place that we are all a part of.

—Weaving Earth

This meet-up is entirely free. We will meet at main parking lot of Swan Lake. Please bring a pad to sit on or a small camp chair, a notebook, a pencil/pen, binoculars and a field guide to birds if you have them and find them helpful.

Any questions email Julian Evans ([email protected]). Read about our first event last year and sign up for email updates through Substack.

The Swan Lake Nature Sanctuary is on the ancestral territories of the lək'ʷəŋən peoples, as represented today by the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations, and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples, including the W̱JOȽEȽP (Tsartlip), BOḰEĆEN (Pauquachin), SȾÁUTW̱ (Tsawout), W̱SIḴEM (Tseycum) and MÁLEXEȽ (Malahat) Nations. Their historical relationships to these lands and waters continue to this day.

Photos by Brad Herrit (@brads.bird.photos) and Starr Levesque.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary, 3873 Swan Lake Road, Victoria, Canada