Lyanda Lynn Haupt, a Seattle-based award-winning author, naturalist and ecophilosopher, will speak to the Whidbey Audubon Society on connection with the earth at the society’s first hybrid meeting March 10.

The program begins at 7 p.m. and is free and open to the public. It will take place at the Bayview Cash Store at 5603 Bayview Road in Langley.

The society will allow 24 people to attend in-person. Anyone wishing to attend in person may register at www.whidbeyaudubonsociety.org. Those who attend in person must wear a mask and be vaccinated against COVID-19 with a booster.

Those who wish to attend via Zoom should register by noon on March 10.

Haupt’s writing is at the forefront of the movement to connect people with nature and wilderness in their everyday lives.

Haupt is an Audubon master birder. She has created and directed educational programs for Seattle Audubon, worked in raptor rehabilitation in Vermont and been a seabird researcher for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the remote tropical Pacific. Her writing has appeared in a variety of publications such as Orion, Discover, Utne, LA Times Literary Supplement, Wild Earth and others.

She has written several books, including “Mozart’s Starling,” “The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild,” “Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness,” “Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent” and “Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds.”

Her highly personal new book, “Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature and Spirit,” invites readers to live with the earth in ways that are both simple and profound.

Haupt will be signing copies of her book at the Kingfisher Bookstore in Coupeville on the afternoon of March 10 from 1 to 3 p.m. and at the Audubon Society’s meeting. She lives in Seattle with her husband and daughter and a mixed backyard chicken flock.