LOWER LAKE, Calif. – On Thursday, Jan. 17, the Redbud Audubon Society will host local nature photographer Lyle Madeson who will be speaking and showing slides of birds and animals of Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa.

The program will be presented at the Lower Lake Schoolhouse Museum on Morgan Valley Road in Lower Lake starting at 7 p.m. The public is invited.

Lyle Madeson and his wife, Deanna, took a 24-day, fly-in trip to Kruger National Park, South Africa last summer.

They also visited many other fascinating locations, including Victoria Falls, one of the seven wonders of the natural world.

Lyle Madeson will share his and Deanna’s photos of sunbirds, lovebirds, numerous African eagles, superb starlings, hornbills, and a stork rookery, to name a few, relates Redbud Audubon president, Marilyn Waits.

He also will show many mammals of Southern Africa including baboons with their infants, and lions and leopards with their prey.

Be sure not to miss this interesting program with beautiful images by two of Lake County’s finest photographers.

For information about the Redbud Audubon Society, go to www.redbudaudubon.org .