This four-week, online course is Tuesday evenings on January 7, 14, 21 and 28 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The cost is $100. Each session will be recorded, so that those registered may review it. Please register here.

Fish have been a rich source of food for birds for millions of years — certainly long enough for avians to have evolved many styles of fishing. In this series of four classes, master birder Constance Sidles will show you the strategies different species of birds use to go fishing. They are by turns ingenious, persistent, patient, aggressive, cooperative and altogether wondrous. Come to the sea, the rivers, ponds and lakes with Connie as she tells you about the plungers and the pickers; the snatchers and the stalkers; the chasers and the scoopers— including her favorites, the pelicans.

Connie Sidles, Master Birder

Constance Sidles is the founder and president of Constancy Press, LLC. Before beginning Constancy Press, Sidles was a production consultant with more than 30 years of experience in print production. She has been production editor and/or managing editor for many publications, including the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Adventure Travel Association, Teleflora and Pacific Northwest Magazine. She has operated her own production consultancy for 25 years, specializing in production planning, color printing, and troubleshooting for commercial clients and publications. In addition, she serves as a judge for Sappi Paper’s International Printer of the Year Award (Sappi is the world’s largest producer of publication papers).

Sidles has written more than 550 feature articles in 65 different publications and has been a contributing writer to How Magazine, Magazine Design & Production and Adobe Magazine. Sidles has authored four print production and design books. Her latest book is In My Nature, a book about the relationship between wild nature and human nature.

Sidles has served on several boards of directors, including the Seattle School Board (elected in 1987; served four years), the Advertising Production Association of Puget Sound, Friends of the Washington Commission for the Humanities and the Institute for Soldier Healing. She also served for many years on the Graphics Advisory Committee and the Vocational Education Advisory Committee of the Seattle Public School District.

Sidles graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Chicago with a degree in Egyptology. She is a master birder with more than 600 North American birds on her life list. She has led several trips for Seattle Audubon Society and currently serves as chair of Seattle Audubon’s Publications Committee. While serving on this committee, she helped produce revised and/or reprinted versions of Amphibians of the Pacific Northwest, Reptiles of Washington & Oregon, Butterflies of Cascadia, A Field Guide to the Common Wetland Plants of Washington and NW Oregon and Dragonflies of Washington.