Our fifth annual family festival, A Day of Merrymaking, is coming up this Saturday, June 3! Meet us on the Greensward from 10:00 – 3:00 for food, beer, music, dancing, games, and lots of local businesses. Whether you’re attending for the first time or you’re
With about three weeks left before our June 11 deadline to raise $1 million, we’re excited to announce a $250,000 pledge from a generous friend of Overton Park Conservancy! This brings our total to date over $813,000. With your help, we can raise the remaining funds
This year’s Day of Merrymaking family festival heats up the Greensward on Saturday, June 3 from 10:00AM to 3:00PM. Because it’s June in Memphis, we’re expecting a warm day and loading up with features to help you beat the heat: a water tag maze, a
Now that Bucks for Birds is over, I wanted to share my favorite photo of each species that I captured over the past few weeks. In many cases, my favorite photo was not the one I initially posted (thanks for coming through, summer tanager!). I’ve
We’re happy to announce that we have reached the halfway point in our goal of raising $1 million by June 11 to end Greensward parking! Gifts have come in from the 16 states highlighted above, and we’d love your help to make that map even
Three weeks into our campaign to take back the Greensward, we’re happy to report that we’ve raised more than $450,000 toward our million-dollar goal! With your help, we can hit the halfway point quickly. An anonymous donor has stepped up with a $25,000 challenge: every
It’s time for the final set of birds in our April Bucks for Birds promotion, and we saved our most fascinating visitors for last. Over the past couple of weeks, I spotted nine different warblers, which brings our final tally to 54 species photographed in
We’ve officially reached the end of April’s Bucks for Birds campaign! Spring migration continues, so I’ll be doing a wrap-up with some of my favorite photos in a few weeks, most of which are quite different than the ones I’ve posted so far. (The wood
This has been the most productive week of Bucks for Birds so far, so much so that I’m going to split it into a couple of posts. We’ll save the warblers for next time and just dive right in to the less-flashy migrants and some
This has been the most challenging week yet of Bucks for Birds. For one thing, working to raise a million dollars in two months has confined most of my bird-spotting to my spare time! But when I do get out, I can hear so many
