PHOTOS: First Friday Bird Walks brings together a community of Columbia area bird watchers
As the weather warms and summer vacation begins, Columbia bird watchers continue to gather on the first Friday of every month for the city Audubon ...
As the weather warms and summer vacation begins, Columbia bird watchers continue to gather on the first Friday of every month for the city Audubon Society's monthly bird walks. Edge Wade awaited her fellow birders in the parking lot of Songbird Station, a wild bird supply shop off Forum Boulevard. Wade is president of the Missouri Birding Society and member of the Columbia Audubon Society. The Missouri Birding Society is the oldest organization of its kind in the state. She is filling in for the usual birder that leads the walk, but Wade has 30 years of experience that made this particular bird walk one to remember for newcomers, as well as veterans.