KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – Redbud Audubon Society is welcoming everyone to its first program of the season on Thursday, Sept. 19, when outstanding speaker, Dr. Norman Kikuchi returns.

Everyone is invited to gather at 7 p.m. at the Kelseyville Presbyterian Church Social Hall, 5430 Third St., to enjoy refreshments.

Announcements and the program will start between 7:15 and 7:30 p.m.

Last September Dr. Kikuchi spoke on birds of Alaska. This new program features a glimpse into the lives of iconic birds of the Western United States. Dr. Kikuchi selected photographs he has taken at birding hotspots in New Mexico, Oregon and California.

As well as featuring interesting birds from those areas, Dr. Kikuchi has beautiful photographs of the Western and Clark’s grebes on Clear Lake as they exhibit their unique breeding behaviors.

Norman Kikuchi’s childhood interest in birds began while stalking ring-necked pheasants in the foothills of Mt. Diablo, but his real bird epiphany occurred during his college days when he witnessed the impalement of a western fence lizard by a loggerhead shrike on a Joshua tree spine.

He was transfixed by the moment! Dr. Kikuchi graduated from the University of California, Davis with a degree in zoology and a minor in herpetology. He completed medical school and family practice residency at the University of California, Irvine.

In 1997, Kikuchi’ acquired the super telephoto Canon lenses. He switched to his present obsession, avian photography, and his ultimate goal, photographing all the breeding birds in the U.S. and Canada.

He practices urgent care and occupational medicine in Redding, is a Santa Cruz Bird Club lifetime member, and a field trip leader for Santa Clara Valley Audubon.

The public is cordially invited to this event.

For more information go to www.redbudaudubon.org .