Slow Birding Outing with Bird Diva Bridget Butler
When: October 11th, 2025 from 10am-1pm
Who: 15 years old and older
Cost: $20/person
Sign up required: Call 802-760-4061 or email BTVDH-SPO@Hyatt.com
Join Bird Diva Bridget Butler for a Slow Birding Outing that will offer up a mindful approach to birding that will connect you with birds, the land, and yourself. Bridget will lead you on an outcome-free experience that will focus on getting to know birds beyond their identification.
We’ll start by discovering who’s on the landscape that particular day and practice sharing our observations as a group in a way that uplifts each participant no matter their level of knowledge or experience birding. Next, we’ll settle into a sit spot session with prompts that Bridget will offer the group to use. We’ll wrap up by coming back together and sharing our observations, feelings, and wonderings with the whole group.
Participants should dress for the weather and at least 30 minutes sitting in place. Consider bringing a portable chair, journal, hot beverage or water, binoculars, and whatever will make you most comfortable sitting in place. Bridget will have binoculars and portable chairs for participants to borrow.
Beginners and first-time birders are welcome! Bridget will strive to make each outing as accessible as possible. If you have any accessibility needs, please let us know in the registration form and she’ll do her best to accommodate you. Birding is for everyone and Slow Birding is meant to be accessible to all!
Bio: Bridget Butler, aka The Bird Diva, has been working in conservation and environmental education for more than 25 years throughout New England. Through her business Bird Diva Consulting, she delivers presentations, leads bird outings, and brings her signature program Slow Birding to a broader audience. Bridget has worked for the Audubon Society in Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts and helped create Audubon Vermont's Forest Bird Initiative. Bridget has been a guest on a number of podcasts talking about Slow Birding, including the American Birding Podcast, Talkin' Birds with Ray Brown, and the South African podcast This Birding Life. Bridget lives in the Cold Hollow Mountains in northern Vermont with her husband and three teens.