The Arts Council Windsor & Region’s Senior Community Arts Program is a free monthly program for adults aged 50+ that encourages creativity, learning, and community connection through workshops and Tea & Chats.

Join us on Sept 23rd for a Tea & Chat with Paul Pratt!

Paul will be speaking about birding as a wonderful lifelong hobby and highlighting how the Essex region is an exceptional place to discover and observe a diverse variety of bird species.

Wednesday, Sept 23rd, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

ArtSpeak Gallery, 1942 Wyandotte St E.

This Tea & Chat is free and does not require registration. If you have any questions please email Lupita, Senior Community Coordinator at [email protected].

The Senior Community Arts Program runs monthly from June–December 2026 and is funded in part by the Government of Canada’s New Horizons for Seniors Program.

About the facilitator:

Paul Pratt

I have been an active birder and naturalist for over sixty years, recording 3,800 species and traveling throughout Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central & South America, Africa and Australia in pursuit of my passion for birds and wildlife.

For ten years straight I was the co-holder of the World Series of Birding out-of-region “Big Day” record and overall winner for three years. This event is held in New Jersey each May and is the largest one-day fundraiser for conservation in North America. Teams from across North America and Europe compete to see which team can record the largest number of species in a single day. In Canada, our team has set Canadian Big Day records in 10 provinces and territories I am a permitted bird bander for hummingbirds, northern saw-whet owls and all song birds. I currently hold a banding station permit with banding conducted in Wheatley and Holiday Beach Conservation Area.

My photography has appeared in national and international nature publications, books, newspapers, scientific journals, interpretive signs, web pages, advertisements and as references for works of art. Photographs have been published in magazines such as Equinox, Seasons, Ontario Nature, Nature Canada, Les Débrouillards as well as publications in France and New Zealand; in books such as Islands of Green, Wildflowers of Canada, The Natural Treasure of Carolinian Canada, Robert Bateman Naturalist Diary; in television such as National Geographic Channel Presents.

September 23 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Artspeak Gallery

1942 Wyandotte Street E
Windsor, N8Y1E4
Phone: 5199916350