

Owners of properties of all sizes can attract more birds and a greater variety of birds by planting vegetation in a manner that mimics natural plant communities.

His talk will emphasize inter-relationships between wild birds and native plants that offer vital food, shelter and nesting habitats. He will discuss the parallels between establishing island seabird populations and backyard bird habitat – which is often an island among sterile landscapes of neighboring properties. Kress, founder of Project Puffin and author of the recently published second edition of The Audubon Society Guide to Attracting Birds and many other books on creating bird habitat. Project Puffin continues its summer Wednesday Night Lecture series with a presentation by Stephen W. at Project Puffin Visitor Center, 311 Main Street. Bird Expert to Speak in Rockland, 5 to 7 p.m.

Kevin Johnson, photo archivist for the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, will show Rockport photographs from the vast photography archives of the Penobscot Marine Museum and talk about the town’s nautical history. To register for the free program, call Wendy Roberts at 691-0833 or email Guided Photographic Tour of Rockport, 6:30 p.m. He will describe how sitcoms have evolved over the decades and impart trivia and other information. It will include snippets of familiar shows as well as a historical survey of the genre. Historian Marty Gitlin gives an affectionate ranking of the diverse world of TV situation comedies, including I Love Lucy, Mary Tyler Moore, All in the Family, Cheers, Andy Griffith, Seinfeld, The Big Bang Theory and others. A Program about Funny Programs: The Greatest Sitcoms of All Time, 6:30 p.m.
