Delaware Nature Society Program Guide and Newsletter September - December 2017 | Page 28

Eco tours
FOR MEMBERS ONLY – JOIN TODAY AT
DelNature.org/BecomeAMember
Please visit DelNature.org/EcoTours for details and itinerary.
To register, call 302.239.2334.
Mon, Sep. 25, 2017 – Fri, Sep. 29, 2017 Mon, Oct. 2, 2017 – Tue, Oct. 3, 2017
Chicago’s Botanic Gardens, Birding, and Architecture Poplar Island and Blackwater Overnight
Led by Joe Sebastiani and Andrew Bunting, Chicago Botanic
Garden Assistant Director and Director of Plant Collections
See the best of Chicago’s gardens and birding. Full day at Chicago
Botanic Garden – 385 acres on nine islands, six miles of shoreline.
Visit the 1,700-acre Morton Arboretum and view their collection of a
quarter-of-a-million specimen plants.
Deposit to secure spot: $500
Price: $1,200 (double occ) | Single supplement: $499 Led by Ginger North and Matt Babbitt
Tour Maryland’s Eastern Shore and Chesapeake Bay. Visit the
Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, the “Everglades of Delmarva”,
to look for migratory waterfowl and Delmarva Fox Squirrels.
Learn about the area’s heritage at the Harriet Tubman Underground
Railroad National Historic Park and Poplar Island which is being
re-built to create a wildlife paradise.
Price: $210 (double occ) | Single supplement: $75
Thu, Nov 2, 2017 – Sat, Nov 11, 2017 Sun, Apr 15, 2018 – Fri, Apr 20, 2018
Trinidad and Tobago Wildlife and Birds Texas Hill Country Spring Getaway
Led by Judy Montgomery, Seasonal Program Coordinator
Discover birding in the tropics at the two-island nation of Trinidad
and Tobago. Easily-accessible habitats of some of the world’s most
beautiful birds. Includes world-famous Asa Wright Nature Centre
in 2,000 acres of rainforest. Price doesn’t include airfare
between your home and Port of Spain, Trinidad.
Deposit to secure spot: $500
Price: $2,850 (double occ) | Single supplement: $420
Sat, Apr 28, 2018 – Mon, Apr 30, 2018 Wed, May 23, 2018 – Wed, 30, 2018
Chesapeake Bay Excursion:
Living Life by the Tides with an extension to Glacier National Park
Led by Jim White, Matt Babbitt,
and Chesapeake Bay Foundation Staff
Travel to the Karen Noonan Center,
a sustainably renovated hunting lodge
at Tangier Sound. By boat try crabbing,
oyster dredging, and enjoy birding.
Price: $425
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Led by John Harrod and Joe Sebastiani
Discover the Edwards Plateau region, a land of gorgeous rolling
hills and steep water-carved canyons, known for its spring profusion
of wildflowers, diversity of wildlife, and rare birds. Visit natural
areas such as Pedernales Falls Lost Maples Natural Area. and the
convergence of the desert, tropics, and eastern forests.
Deposit to secure spot: $250
Price: $1,800 (double occ)
REGISTER TODAY!
Yellowstone and Montana
Led by Forrest Rowland, Rockjumper
Birding Tours, and Joe Sebastiani
Enjoy birding, wildlife, and scenery of the
prairies and mountain tops of the Rocky
Mountains. Witness the gushing geysers
and scenery of Yellowstone National Park.
Call 302.239.2334 for pricing.
DelNature.org/Programs | 302.239.2334
Thu, Jun 21, 2018 – Wed, Jul 4, 2018
The Plains of Africa
Led by Brian Winslow, Executive Director
Explore the scenic vistas, magnificent
wildlife, thriving culture, and natural
wonders of Kenya. Safari game drives to
see lions, elephants, buffalo, leopards,
rhinos. Visit Rothschild Giraffe Sanctuary.
Deposit to secure spot: $500
Price: $6,899 (double occ), $7,349 (single
occ) | Register by 11/22 & $200 off