Testimonials

 

Slow Birding

 
The most wonderful thing about birding is that it can be shaped to your individual personality. There is no right or wrong way to bird, but we are often taught a “standard” way of birding, Slow Birding opens up an entirely different and broad way to enjoy birds that may better fit the way you want to bird. Give it a try!
— Alvaro Jaramillo - Half Moon Bay, California, 2020
 
I really enjoyed the Fall Slow Birding course. Bridget is a wonderful teacher who conveys her knowledge and love of birding in easy-going, humorous, and super-informative sessions. I learned a lot from the online classes about how to better observe and listen to birds. Best of all, the course provided us with tools – both food for thought as well as online and written resources — for continued learning and improving our birding skills.
— Liz P., Bernardsville, NJ 2020

Presentation

Your passion for birds is obvious — and it’s our mission to light the fire in others — someone like you can teach us, but also excite us, and then that grows into better stewardship of our resources. So, thank you for joining our mission. You get the important things across, but because you are having such fun doing it - making self-deprecatory remarks, taking risks, flaming a bit — or a lot! — one hardly knows they are being hooked. You have won new converts, which means we have as well. Teachers like you make our job easier — and we get the treat of seeing you, learning, and laughing as well.

With warmest thanks,
Libby & Peggy
(and the rest of the Thetford & West Fairlee Conservation Commissions)
— Time to Fly Presentation, Fall 2015
What an excellent presentation to the Garden Club yesterday. The Club members are raving about your extraordinary slides and your vast knowledge
of birds and their habitat.
Thank you so much for being available and for your love and the spirit you share of birds. Your shared knowledge with others ignites our fire to go out, care for, and enjoy these lovely creatures.
Warm wishes,
Doris Van Mullen, Burlington Garden Club
— Saving the Bird in the Bush, June 2019

Science Communicator

I really appreciate the work you do. You truly are the model of a 21st-century conservationist. Combining citizen science, public engagement, an expert naturalist’s ability, and a focus on habitat conservation and connectivity, you truly bring all of the necessary parts together. And as a scientist turned science communicator, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your approach to science communication. You connect people to conservation not through information, but through a passion for wildlife and an ability to make it fun.
— Tom Rogers, Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department — Vermont Agency of Natural Resources Earth Day Keynote, 2017

Birding

Go out birding with Butler for an afternoon, and it’s easy to see how she’s turned her passion into something marketable. With apologies to Fleetwood Mac, Butler makes birding fun. Like, the kind of fun you didn’t think you’d have traipsing through the woods listening for cheeps and chirps.
— Lauren Ober, Seven Days Newpaper

Workshop

Thank you for one of the best workshops on birding by ear last Saturday at the North Branch Nature Birdfest! It was well paced, fun and included elements of listening that I have easily incorporated into my daily birding life.

Diane Brown from Middlebury
— Birdsong Tune Up Walk & Presentation, Spring 2016