2025 Trips, Excursions and Camps

 2025 Camps

Hearing the cries of a hatching gull chick is the kind of once-in-a-lifetime opportunity you find at Hog Island. ©Scott WeidensaulHog Island Audubon Camp, Maine

Summer sessions at Hog Island usually include visits to the restored puffin colony on Eastern Egg Rock. (©Scott Weidensaul)June 15-20, 2025

Sept. 7-12, 2025

Join Scott Weidensaul and an exceptional faculty of instructors at Hog Island, the National Audubon Society's oldest educational center -- a spectacular 330-acre island in Muscongus Bay, on the beautiful mid-coast of Maine.

Scott will be directing two sessions at Hog Island in 2025:

Adult Field Ornithology, June 15-20

Join some of the top ornithologists in the country for a week-long exploration of the science of birds, hands-on and in the field. We'll explore the region's boreal forests, hardwoods, offshore islands and open bay, with instructors that include Dr. Sara Morris, president of the American Ornithological Society; acclaimed bird artist Catherine Hamilton of California; birding whiz Corey Husic and master bander Anthony Hill.  All that, and puffins, too! 

Living on the Wind: Migration and Monhegan, Sept. 7-12

This special, small-group session is devoted to fall migration, and includes an overnight birding excursion to Monhegan Island, a world-renowned Monhegan Island isn't just ruggedly beautiful, it is one of the best migrant traps in the East. (©Scott Weidensaul)migratory hotspot and beautiful island village. 

This intensive week of birding will take participants from tidal marshes and beaches to hawk watches, spruce forests, and the outer islands and waters of Muscongus Bay, depending on where the birding is hottest. The highlight will be an overnight trip to Monhegan Island, one of the best "migrant traps" in the Northeast -- a place justly famous for its birding and dramatic rocky coastline, which has inspired artists for more than a century. Learn about how and why birds migrate and the conservation challenges facing them.  

 2025 Excursions

©Scott Weidensaul

Spring Birding Days, Lodge at Little St. Simons Island, GA

April 18-23, 2025

Join Scott Weidensaul on perhaps the loveliest of Georgia's spectacular "Golden Isles" -- Little St. Simons Island, an unspoiled gem managed for conservation and wildlife. Covering 11,000 acres, with seven miles of stunning beach, there are never more than 32 guests on LSSI at any time, staying in the justly famed Lodge at Little St. Simons. Go birding with Scott and the island's renowned team of naturalist-guides at the peak of the spring bird migration, searching for newly arrived songbirds, watching nesting roseate spoonbills and egrets, sifting through northbound shorebirds for rare migrants -- or, if you choose, trying fishing, biking, kayaking, beachcombing, exploring the Spanish moss-draped live oak forests. You may just want to sit on the veranda and watch painted buntings swarm the bird feeders.