Connecting People
With Nature
December 11
HOLIDAY POTLUCK at 5:30 p.m.
and Speaker Series at 7:00 p.m.
Unitarian Church 6300 A Street
Holiday Potluck and Speaker Series —
Thursday, December 11, 5:30 PM, Unitarian Church, 6300 A Street,
and also via YouTube link: https://youtube.com/live/E84QbSzNuoo?feature=share
Winter Birding &
the Importance of
Community Science
with Jason the "Birdnerd" St. Sauver
I came to Audubon in 2013 after a ten-year career with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Starting at Mitchell Lake Audubon Center and joining Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center staff in 2015, St. Sauver has been the lead Education staff at Spring Creek creating programs for all ages and audiences, like the international, Let’s Go Birding Together and more recently, the Wildlife Explorers curriculum for middle and high school-aged students. Through Wildlife Explorers, students experience field surveys as an Ornithologist, Botanist, and Entomologist on field trips and through after-school programming. He is also co-creator of community events like Return of the Thunderbirds, SparrowFest, and Wachiska’s own Tour the Wild Side.
Originally from South Dakota, “the Birdnerd” grew up loving not only birds, but the outdoors. He credits his Grandmother for introducing him to his spark bird, the Dark-eyed Junco. Jason has an over 10 year career in music and theatre before his environmental education work, performing in such off-off-Broadway musicals as Footloose and writing and directing Dracularama. St. Sauver was the 2018 winner of Audubon’s Chotzen Educator of the Year award and is locally known as a
birding-by-ear expert. Along with birds, he loves travel, reading, and horror films.
Join Jason “the Birdnerd” St. Sauver, Sr. Education Manager at Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center, to learn about some of your favorite local winter resident and migratory birds like woodpeckers, creepers, longspurs, and snow buntings.
Explore what birds may be around your feeders this winter and fun facts about them and let’s connect all of our love of birds to the importance of community science like the Christmas Bird Count, Great Backyard Bird Count, and using eBird and Merlin.
Please bring your questions and requests for bird sounds and trivia to our holiday potluck and Speaker Series and join Wachiska on Thursday, October 9 at 7:00 PM at Lincoln’s Unitarian Church, 6300 A Street. This will also be live-streamed on YouTube at: https://youtube.com/live/E84QbSzNuoo?feature=share
No registration needed. Check Wachiska’s website for past programs.
December 2025 Calendar of Events
December 10 Conservation Committee via zoom, 6:30 p.m.
December 11 Holiday Pot Luck at 5:30 p.m. and Speaker Series
with Jason "the Birdnerd" St. Sauver, 7 PM
Unitarian Church, 6300 A St. Lincoln
December 15 Newsletter Deadline: Noon
December 16 Board Meeting via Zoom, 7:00 p.m.
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In September 2021, the Wachiska Board adopted the National Audubon’s Statement on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion as the Chapter’s own goals:
The birds Audubon pledges to protect differ in color, size, behavior, geographical preference, and countless other ways. By honoring and celebrating the equally remarkable diversity of the human species, Audubon will bring new creativity, effectiveness and leadership to our work throughout the hemisphere.
Wachiska Audubon Society's vision is to share the experience and love for nature and help protect its diversity.
NEW! Wachiska is on YouTube
Join friends and neighbors to show your concern about our climate and our elected officials. Stop by the Wachiska office and pick up your Climate yard sign.
Signs that say “VOTE with CLIMATE in Mind” are available for $10 each. They are made of material that will hold up well to the elements and come with a metal holder to push into the ground. You are encouraged to put your signs out now for the fall elections. Since they are so durable, they could easily last three or four years even if kept out all year.
The photos on this website were taken by Wachiska members. Many thanks to Bruce Wendorff,
Linda Brown, Paul Johnsguard, Tim Knott, Stu Luttich, John Carlini and Elizabeth Nelson.