Backyard Bird Feeding: Trevor Herriot Reading and Bird Feeder Workshop with Nature Saskatchewan

Nature lovers and avid bird watchers can attend an outdoor and distanced reading of Backyard Bird Feeding: A Saskatchewan Guide with Trevor Herriot on September 29th, followed by a bird feeding workshop with Nature Saskatchewan at the Lady Slipper Courtyard at Wascana Place in Regina.
Trevor Herriot will bring some bird feeders and discuss backyard feeding and habitat landscaping. Following the reading, Nature Saskatchewan will lead a workshop on how to make your own bird feeder!

There is limited space to attend this event. To register email bookweek@saskbooks.com or call 306-780-9811.

Attendees will be required to maintain social distancing, wear masks and follow all provincial COVID-19 protocols.

BACKYARD BIRD FEEDING: A SASKATCHEWAN GUIDE is a new full-colour guide to the art and science of attracting and feeding birds. Backyard Bird Feeding provides the Saskatchewan perspective in order to adapt the very successful Backyard Bird Feeding: An Alberta Guide, by Myrna Pearman (published by Ellis Bird Farm in 2015) for our province. The combined knowledge and talents of Pearman and Herriot writers has produced an engaging and fascinating handbook that covers everything you need to consider, from habitat, migration, bird behaviour and the basics of offering food and water to dealing with a wide range of problems that may arise. Whether new to the idea of feeding birds or a veteran with extensive experience, any reader is bound to encounter information of value, not to mention delightful images to relish!

TREVOR HERRIOT is a prairie naturalist, activist, and writer living on the northern edge of the Great Plains in Regina, Saskatchewan. Author of more than six books, Herriot has been nominated for three Saskatchewan Book Awards and has been shortlisted for the Writer’s Trust Non-Fiction Prize, the Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction, and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing (non-fiction). His first book, River in a Dry Land: a Prairie Passage (2000), received several national awards and a nomination for the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction. His writing has appeared in the Globe & Mail and Canadian Geographic, as well as several anthologies. He has written two radio documentaries for CBC Ideas and is a regular guest on CBC Radio Saskatchewan’s Blue Sky.

There is no cost to attend this reading or any other Saskatchewan Book Week 2021 events! To see the full 2021 schedule visit https://bookweek.skbooks.com/book-week-schedule-2021/.

SaskBooks is the provincial creative industry association for Saskatchewan book publishers. SaskBooks is grateful for the support of Creative Saskatchewan, the Department of Canadian Heritage Canada Book Fund, and the Canada Council for the Arts.