Join Amy for free, kid-friendly nature activities in our community!

PVAS Host: Amy Thomas

Free and open to the public. All ages are welcome, though youth must be accompanied by an adult. Registration is not required

PVMN Volunteer Credit Eligible. PVAS education volunteers and Master Naturalists may sign up to volunteer at these events here. 

Join Amy Thomas from the Potomac Valley Audubon Society for a family-friendly bird walk around the Ranson Community Garden and a short trail along Evitt’s Run. Bring your own binoculars or borrow a pair of ours! You’ll leave the program ready to look for birds in your own backyard!

About our Host:

Amy is our Lead Teacher and Naturalist. She first worked for PVAS starting in 2012 as a camp counselor for three summers and then as camp director in 2015.

While studying at Towson University, Amy interned with the National Aquarium and Irvine Nature Center and worked for the University’s Office of Sustainability as a Compost Educator. Amy was also very involved in her university’s Outdoor Adventure program where she worked as an Outdoor Trip Leader, Kayak Clinic Instructor, Challenge Course Facilitator and Climbing Gym Supervisor. After earning her BA in Environmental Studies with a concentration in Informal Environmental Education in 2015, she served as a Chesapeake Conservation Corps member, working as a naturalist at Meadowside Nature Center in Rockville, Maryland. Most recently, Amy worked as a field instructor at the Mountain Institute at Spruce Knob, West Virginia, where she led students on backpacking trips and taught Watershed Education programs.

In her free time, Amy enjoys backpacking, biking, rock climbing, kayaking and cross-country skiing.