Quittapahilla Audubon Society has scheduled two activities, which are free and open to the public. For more information, visit http://www.qasaudubon.org.

The group will host a program titled "Hummingbirds: Jewels of the Air" on Wednesday, Jan. 24, at 7 p.m. at the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 723 Lehman St., Lebanon. Attendees are asked to enter the building from the parking lot behind the church off of Spruce Street.

Sandy Lockerman, a licensed bird bander, will discuss hummingbirds, including their adaptations and migration mysteries. In addition to her ongoing ruby-throated hummingbird project, she will update attendees on the documentation efforts being made of Western hummingbirds in Pennsylvania.

Lockerman has been a bird bander for 27 years and spent 15 of those years traveling annually to the large Fort Morgan, Ala., bird banding station where banding hundreds of Gulf of Mexico migrating songbirds and hummingbirds was an everyday occurrence. She began researching songbird migration in Pennsylvania at Wildwood Park in Harrisburg, where she spent two decades as a full-time environmental educator. In 1996, she became involved with Project Owlnet and the Ned Smith Center, where she bands and studies Northern saw-whet owls during their autumn migration in northern Dauphin County. For the past 32 years, she has been an education volunteer at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary. Hummingbirds entered Lockerman's life at Fort Morgan, and she began to assist a master bander with his research of the ruby-throated hummingbird and vagrant Western hummingbirds in Pennsylvania. After his relocation to New Hampshire, Lockerman has continued this migration study and documenting of the Western hummingbirds seen in Pennsylvania.

The Audubon Society will offer a field trip on Saturday, Jan. 27, to the Barnegat Lighthouse and Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey. This is an all-day trip dependent on weather conditions. Space is limited. To learn more, contact Jim Fiorentino at 717-269-0675.