Lincoln’s Sparrow. Image courtesy of Ned Bohman.
Join us for a morning of bird watching and writing from the senses at Tahoe Meadows! Biologist Ned Bohman from Great Basin Bird Observatory and author June Sylvester Saraceno will guide our participants in honing their observational skills and identifying local birds. This is a great location to see Williamson’s Sapsucker, Pine Grosbeak, Lincoln’s Sparrow, and many more high elevation species.
Notepads and writing utensils will be supplied for all participants. We will have limited pairs of binoculars available; we encourage participants to bring their own binoculars for this event.
Space for this event is limited and registration in advance is required.
This program is supported with funding by the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Ned Bohman has been with Great Basin Bird Observatory (GBBO) since 2015 on the Nevada Bird Count, and currently works as GBBO’s Outreach Coordinator. He grew up in Connecticut and earned a B.S in Wildlife Biology at the University of Vermont in 2012. Since earning his degree, Ned has worked on wildlife research projects all over the world, including tracking King Cobras in Thailand and banding Olive-sided Flycatchers in Alaska. Currently Ned manages GBBO’s outreach and membership programs, including coordinating the Nevada Bird-a-thon and other public events. He has helped out on a number of GBBO projects including Pinyon Jay Telemetry, restoration site monitoring at Las Vegas Wash, and point-count surveys throughout the state.
June Sylvester Saraceno is author of the novel, Feral, North Carolina, 1965, as well as the full-length poetry collections The Girl From Yesterday (Cherry Grove Collections 2020), Altars of Ordinary Light (Plain View Press, 2007), and Of Dirt and Tar ((Cherry Grove Collections, 2014). Her chapbook Mean Girl Trips was published in fall 2006 by Pudding House Press.
Her work has appeared in various journals including American Journal of Nursing, California Quarterly, The Pedestal, Silk Road, Smartish Pace, Southwestern American Literature, Tar River Poetry, The Rumpus, and others; and several anthologies including A Bird as Black as the Sun: California Poets on Crows and Ravens; Intimate Kisses: the poetry of sexual pleasure; Passionate Hearts: the poetry of sexual love, and Tahoe Blues.
June is originally from Elizabeth City, North Carolina. She is the founding editor of the Sierra Nevada Review literary magazine, and the founder, director, and fairy godmother of the Writers in the Woods literary speaker series.
