Louise Zemaitis is an artist, naturalist, and leader for Victor Emanuel Nature Tours living in Cape May, New Jersey where she is a popular field trip leader teaching birding workshops as an Associate Naturalist with New Jersey Audubon’s Cape May Bird Observatory. She also enjoys leading birding groups at birding festivals and is known for her enthusiasm for all natural history subjects. Louise and her husband, Michael O’Brien, have been guiding young birders at birding events and conferences for many years. In addition to leading, Louise spent 28 years as field coordinator of the Monarch Monitoring Project in Cape May and 22 years as compiler of the Cape May Christmas Bird Count. An honors graduate of Temple University’s Tyler School of Art, she enjoys working as a freelance artist and her illustrations have been widely published. Her proudest accomplishment has been the raising of her two sons, Bradley and Alec.