iPhone Tour at NC Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill

 Hi all,
This isn't in the Cape Fear Region, but it seems mighty cool.  I wonder if we could do something like this here closer to home.

-Newman

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

North Carolina Botanical Garden Partners with GPTrex to Offer Interactive Mobile Adventures
Botanical Garden visitors have more to explore with interactive app for Apple mobile devices

Chapel Hill - The North Carolina Botanical Garden has partnered with GPTrex, a Chapel Hill-based company founded by parents and educators, to produce interactive, family-friendly adventures for visitors with an iPhone or iPad with 3G capabilities.  Using the devices' built-in technology and intuitive touch screen interface, the mobile adventures offer families a whole new experience when visiting the Botanical Garden.

A unique look at the North Carolina Botanical Garden, the "Garden Explorer" adventure is like having your own naturalist guide.  Visitors learn about the Botanical Garden's work with rare plants, unique amphibian habitats that are found in the display gardens, and the role of prescribed fire in land management.  They will even get a chance to hear a frog call and watch video of a prescribed fire.

To play this and future interactive adventures at the North Carolina Botanical Garden, visitors need to download the free GPTrex application from the Apple App Store.  From within the application, families can easily access "Garden Explorer" by visiting or searching for "North Carolina Botanical Garden."  The application houses a growing collection of place-based adventures at cultural, community, and tourism destinations nationwide.

The North Carolina Botanical Garden, part of the University of North Carolina, has been a leader in native plant conservation and education in the southeastern United States for more than 30 years. It is located off of the US 15-501/NC 54 bypass (Fordham Blvd.) in Chapel Hill. Admission is free and visiting hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays and, for the summer (June - August) 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays, and 1 to 6 p.m. on Sundays.  More information: http://ncbg.unc.edu

Contact:
Grant Parkins
Natural Science Educator, North Carolina Botanical Garden
parkins@unc.edu

International Migratory Bird Day Events

10 Year Anniversary Open House: International Migratory Bird Day Events

$5 donation per vehicle

Space limited, please call or email to sign up!

Balsam Mountain Trust, Sylva NC 828-631-1061

May 14, 8:30am - 3pm



8:30-9:30am Bird walk with Blair (Intermediate
level, walk through fields, woods, and along creek)

9:00-9:45am Birding 101 for families with
Michael on nature center grounds

10am-noon Craft table with Lindsey, bird ID games in and
outside

10:00 - 11am Owls: with Jackson and Blair (on nature center
deck) and photo shoot

11:30am-noon Fly and feed a hawk (Michael &
Lindsey)

12-12:30pm Lunch break all: please bring your own food &
drink and picnic here if you would like

12:30-2pm Crafts & bird ID in garden with Blair

12:45-1:30pm Meet some falcons, fastest birds
in the world! Becky

1:00-1:30pm Eagle feeding demonstration with Michael
(discussion of eagles)

2:00pm Kid's bird walk with Blair
(all welcome, up nature center trail and towards stables)

2:00pm Bird of prey photo shoot
(Michael & Becky)

3pm Done!



from: www.bmtrust.org

BIRDING BY EAR at The Agape Center for Environmental Education

BIRDING BY EAR at The Agape Center for Environmental Education- Rural
Duncan (near Fuquay-Varina)



Join Mike Campbell, NC Wildlife Resources Commission Education Specialist
for this 4-hour workshop.



This workshop will offer information to learn the songs and calls of
resident and neo-tropical migratory songbirds, and match these vocalizations
with field marks to identify these birds. Useful tips, tricks and mnemonics
will be provided to help with identification. Weather permitting, this
entire workshop will be held outdoors and will cover several habitats, which
will include some hilly terrain.



This workshop will qualify for public school CEU credit, as well as NC OEE
Certification.



Bring your own lunch to enjoy. Picnic space is available.



Reservations required; space limited to 24 participants.



When? May 24, 2011

Time? 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Cost? $15.00 ? includes refreshments

Where? Agap? Center for Environmental Education, Fuquay-Varina, NC
(www.agapekurebeach.org/aceabout.htm )



To REGISTER contact:

Mir Youngquist-Thurow

Environmental Education Director

Agap? Center for Environmental Education

ACEed@agapekurebeach.org

919-552-9421 x 210

Sail Wilmington NC : Sailing Tours and Charters on the Cape Fear River

Sail Wilmington NC : Sailing Tours and Charters on the Cape Fear River: "Sailing trips on 'Jammin’ will glide upriver along the river front and head downriver past the state ports towards the Brunswick River southern entrance.

Motorboat trips will cruise into the waterways and salt-marshes near Carolina Beach, and Wrightsville Beach.

Capt. Alan Held makes sailing a breeze."

I met Alan at the Cape Fear RiverWatch. He's the one next to the pancake grill with a big smile on his face. He is an "Energy Smart" home builder and contractor part time and a sailing charter boat captain part time. Very interesting and fun guy. I hope to get out on the cape fear river with him this Summer.