Join Whidbey Audubon Society’s Patty Cheek on the first field trip of the season on Saturday, Sept. 2 at South Whidbey State Park for a free two-hour field trip. Please meet at the back parking lot at 8:50 a.m. Drivers must have a Discover Pass or a day pass. The park is located at 4128 South Smugglers Cove Road in Freeland.

Participants will only walk a short, easy distance — just listening and looking for birds among the trees. Although the warblers and sparrows are gone, one can still hear and see Anna’s hummingbirds, killdeer, pigeon guillemots, great blue herons, bald eagles, Cooper’s hawks, belted kingfishers, red-breasted sapsuckers, hairy woodpeckers, pileated woodpeckers, northern flickers, Hutton’s vireo, Steller’s jays, American crow, common ravens, black-capped chickadees, chestnut-backed chickadees, golden-crowned kinglets, red-breasted nuthatches, brown creepers, Pacific wrens, Bewick’s wren, varied thrushes, American robins, cedar waxwings, house finch, pine siskins, red crossbills, dark-eyed juncos, song sparrows and spotted towhees.

Please register on the Whidbey Audubon Society website events page: whidbeyaudubonsociety.org/events-list/field-trip-listening-and-looking-for-birds-with-patty-cheek.