Thursday, September 12, 2013 | 6:30pm
Neil Balkwill Centre, 2420 Elphinstone Street (map)
Meet at the front entrance.
Trevor Herriot, of CBC Radio's Birdline, will lead us on a short walk from the Neil Balkwill Centre across Rotary Park to his home to talk about backyard bird feeding. Returning to the Balkwill Centre, he will show slides and talk about common back yard birds for people who live in Regina and area. Bring binoculars if you have them.
Join us for this three part session! 1) Short walk and talk. 2) Tour of Trevor's backyard feeders. 3) Short presentation.
Trevor Herriot is a prairie naturalist, illustrator and award winning writer. His new book is Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds. It won two Saskatchewan Book Awards, and was short-listed 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, won the Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Best First Book, as well as the Writer’s Trust Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, and two Saskatchewan Book Awards. It was also short-listed for a Governor’s General Award. His second book, Jacob’s Wound: a Search for the Spirit of Wildness, was short-listed for the Writer’s Trust Award for Non-Fiction.
His writing has appeared in the Globe & Mail, Canadian Geographic, Nature Canada, and several anthologies. He has written two radio documentaries for CBC Ideas and is a monthly guest on CBC Radio Saskatchewan’s Blue Sky.
Trevor’s blog, Grass Notes, discusses many of the stories and issues raised in Grass, Sky, Song.
He lives in Regina with his wife Karen and their four children. They spend as much time as possible at a piece of prairie south of Indian Head, which they share with two other families.
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