Let’s Go Birding Together
September 14 – September 19, 2025
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Here at Hog Island, we are dedicated to creating an inclusive, welcoming, and safe space for everyone to enjoy birding and the outdoors. That’s why we are launching our first ever LGBTQIA++ birding session this summer! Come join us for a week of birding at the peak of fall migration on the coast of Maine surrounded by a safe and supportive community of fellow queer birders.
Throughout the week we will travel to birding hotspots around the mid-coast, explore Muscongus Bay by boat, and relax in the spruce-fir forest of Hog Island. You will venture to a diversity of habitats like marshes, meadows, forests, and rocky coastlines in search of a variety of migrating birds. We will discuss hosting your own Let's Go Birding Together or inclusive birding experiences in your communities back home. This will be a week filled with networking and forging new relationships with like-minded birders. While enjoying the bird migration of Maine, we hope to dive deeper into our connection to the natural world and find healing during this time of togetherness. We hope you will leave camp feeling empowered to create safe birding spaces in your own community.
Topics covered during the week will include but are not limited to: nature journaling, mindful birding, bird identification, bird migration, queer natural history, and tips on how to lead your own inclusive birding programs.
Pricing: $1625
The base registration fee includes meals, housing, instruction, and all field trips. This price is based on a standard shared room (with 2 twin beds) a shared bathroom. A limited number of upgraded accommodations are available for an additional cost. Two upgrade options are a single room for solo travelers or a room with a private bath for two people traveling together. There are no single rooms with private bathrooms available. Please see our lodging page for more information.
Participants must arrange their own transportation to and from the Audubon dock in Bremen at the start and end of the session. Please see our transportation page for more information.
There are several different scholarship opportunities available to help participants attend Hog Island sessions! Please see our scholarships page for more information about Hog Island Scholarships. You should also check with your local Audubon chapter or bird club for additional opportunities.
Requirements: Birders of all skill levels and enthusiastic partners and friends are welcome! This program is for members of the LGBTQIA++ community. Acceptance of all identities (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, asexual/aromantic ++) is required.
Director
Eva Lark fell in love with Hog Island and made it her home for nearly a decade as the Hog Island Program Manager. Though she has left full-time Audubon work, she is still the director of the Costa Rica Teen Camp and now is taking on a leadership role at Let's Go Birding Together. She has been a birder for two decades and credits the winter warblers of South Florida as being her spark birds. In her free time, she enjoys traveling with her wife, two sons, and two rescue dogs. Currently Eva works for Boulder County Parks and Open Space as the Education and Outreach Supervisor. For Boulder County, she leads bird walks for the public and has launched a new Pride in the Parks Birding program made intentionally for the LGBTQIA+ and ally community. She also runs quarterly Birding Big Sits, which provides an inclusive way for all abilities to connect with birds and nature.
Instructors: TBA
NOTE: Audubon reserves the right to alter itineraries, instructors and particular arrangements, or to substitute similar itineraries or arrangements, at no penalty. If Audubon cancels a session, it will issue full refunds of all deposits or payments to the paid participants.
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