Friends of Jocassee announce Spring Quarterly Talk Speaker

Late April and early May is peak season for the migration of songbirds from parts further south to the Jocassee Gorges. Some stay for the summer breeding season, and some head farther north before settling in for the summer. It’s a dynamic, colorful, musical time for a few short weeks in the Jocassee Gorges each spring, and there is nobody better to tell the story of this avian season of wonder than Tim Lee, South Carolina Park Naturalist for the Mountain Bridge Wilderness Area, and regional songbird expert. As the speaker for the Friends of Jocassee Spring Quarterly Talk on May 5, Lee will deliver a fact-filled, entertaining explanation of what’s going on just outside your door this time of year. The talk is free and open to the public. Preceding the talk, Friends of Jocassee is offering an early morning birding tour on the lake, led by Tim Lee and Heyward Douglass, Executive Director of the Foothills Trail Conference. This tour is available by reservation only, to those who are new or renewing members of the Friends of Jocassee. There is a fee of $10 for the lake tour portion of the program. The lake tour runs from 7-9:30am and the public talk is from 10-11am in the Holcombe Room of Devils Fork State Park, 161 Holcombe Circle in Salem.