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Winter Wings draws crowds
February 18, 2007
Lots of birds provided lots of enjoyment for participants in the third annual Winter Wings Festival.
“Everybody has been having a good time,” said Anne Wenner, one of the festival's organizers.
More than 350 people registered for various workshops, including a surprisingly large number of Saturday registrants who signed-up for a variety of workshops and pick ‘n choose classes.
“That is more than we've had in recent years by a long shot,” Wenner said of the registrants, which included 78 students and adults making an annual trek from Redding, Calif.
Those numbers don't include the several hundred people who circulated through Oregon Institute of Technology's College Union Saturday to view vendor displays, see entries in the annual photo contest, get up-close sightings of live birds, participate in children's activities and admire winning entries in the youth art contest.
Though early morning fog
limited views at the bald eagle fly-out as the raptors flew from roosts in the Bear Valley National Wildlife Refuge across Highway 97 south of Dorris to ponds and fields in and near the Lower Klamath and Tule Lake National Refuges, Wenner said birders were mostly satisfied with their sightings.
People attending Saturday morning's Bear Valley Buffet saw nearly 30 bald eagles, while hardcore birdwatchers participating in the first-ever, day-long “Loonatic Birding” event saw more than 20 different bird species. Sightings of an unusual leucistic eagle, a bald eagle that is partially albino, also were reported off Chin Road near Merrill.
Based on recent surveys, there are more than 200 bald eagles in the Klamath Basin and more than an estimated 30,000 tundra swans have been seen along tour routes in the Lower Klamath refuge.
Many birders participated in Saturday evening's “Snacks on the Wing,” where they traded reports and photographs of birds seen during Saturday's outings.
Activities wind up today with various day-long and afternoon workshops and outdoor tours. Workshops include a sold-out special program for children and their families, “Knowing the Birds: A Workshop for the Young,” along with programs on falconry, pine needle basket making and digital photography.
Outdoor tours include snowshoeing at Crater Lake National Park, a photography workshop, rock art and caves tour at Lava Beds National Monument, and banding and birding at the Klamath wildlife refuges.
“This has been a wonderfully successful festival,” said coordinator Leslie Lowe.
- By Lee Juillerat
Lots of birds provided lots of enjoyment for participants in the third annual Winter Wings Festival.
“Everybody has been having a good time,” said Anne Wenner, one of the festival's organizers.
More than 350 people registered for various workshops, including a surprisingly large number of Saturday registrants who signed-up for a variety of workshops and pick ‘n choose classes.
“That is more than we've had in recent years by a long shot,” Wenner said of the registrants, which included 78 students and adults making an annual trek from Redding, Calif.
Those numbers don't include the several hundred people who circulated through Oregon Institute of Technology's College Union Saturday to view vendor displays, see entries in the annual photo contest, get up-close sightings of live birds, participate in children's activities and admire winning entries in the youth art contest.
Though early morning fog
limited views at the bald eagle fly-out as the raptors flew from roosts in the Bear Valley National Wildlife Refuge across Highway 97 south of Dorris to ponds and fields in and near the Lower Klamath and Tule Lake National Refuges, Wenner said birders were mostly satisfied with their sightings.
People attending Saturday morning's Bear Valley Buffet saw nearly 30 bald eagles, while hardcore birdwatchers participating in the first-ever, day-long “Loonatic Birding” event saw more than 20 different bird species. Sightings of an unusual leucistic eagle, a bald eagle that is partially albino, also were reported off Chin Road near Merrill.
Based on recent surveys, there are more than 200 bald eagles in the Klamath Basin and more than an estimated 30,000 tundra swans have been seen along tour routes in the Lower Klamath refuge.
Many birders participated in Saturday evening's “Snacks on the Wing,” where they traded reports and photographs of birds seen during Saturday's outings.
Activities wind up today with various day-long and afternoon workshops and outdoor tours. Workshops include a sold-out special program for children and their families, “Knowing the Birds: A Workshop for the Young,” along with programs on falconry, pine needle basket making and digital photography.
Outdoor tours include snowshoeing at Crater Lake National Park, a photography workshop, rock art and caves tour at Lava Beds National Monument, and banding and birding at the Klamath wildlife refuges.
“This has been a wonderfully successful festival,” said coordinator Leslie Lowe.
- By Lee Juillerat
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I Love You Bobby
May your soul Rest In Peace
-Deems "