A small but select group of current COG field trip leaders and prospective leaders joined Anthony Overs and me in this “workshop” held in the Crosbie Morrison Centre at the Australian National Botanic Gardens. This consisted of about 90 minutes worth of presentations/interactive discussions on the current field trips program (see elsewhere in this issue of Gang-gang), on the principles for leading COG bird walks, and COG’s draft Guidelines for the Advertising and Conduct of COG Field trips (also see elsewhere in this issue). This was followed by an outdoor activity to put some of these into effect. As the presentations/discussions took longer than expected there wasn’t much time for this, but participants did manage to find the Satin Bowerbird bower, the male Crescent Honeyeater calling loudly, and a recently fledged New Holland Honeyeater being fed by its parents.