LAKEPORT – Redbud Audubon is sponsoring a special free event on Tuesday, Nov. 3, at the Soper-Reese Community Theatre in Lakeport.

Paul Bannick, an award-winning nature and bird photographer from Seattle and author of the book “The Owl and the Woodpecker,” will lecture and present his stunning photographs.

The event is free and open to the public, starting at 7 p.m.

Bannick’s stunning photographic studies are a visual journey to enjoy the 41 North American species of owls and woodpeckers, relates Redbud Audubon president, Marilyn Waits.

The Soper-Reese Community Theatre is located at 275 S. Main St., Lakeport.

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