Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Great Salt Lake Bird Festival


This weekend is the Great Salt Lake Bird Festival. I am very excited to be participating this year in a couple different ways. First, Greg Miller, of The Big Year fame, with whom I had a ton of fun birding last year at the Midwest Birding Symposium, is coming to lead a couple trips and to be our keynote speaker. I am in charge of The Big Stay at Farmington Bay, a 24-hr bird-a-thon similar to The Big Sit. Pledges for each species will go toward the Great Salt Lake Nature Center at Farmington Bay. If you would like to do a one-time donation, click here! Saturday morning, I will also be team teaching the Bird Study Merit Badge to Boy Scouts. It's gonna be lots of fun! Hope to see you there.

2 comments:

  1. I'm putting this festival on my 'some day' dream list! I teach the book "Refuge" by Terry Tempest Williams in my college writing class, and it's given me a real yen to get out there. Good birding to you this weekend! (And yes, I bet I could set a Birder Murder at the festival...hmmm)

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  2. My wife and I are looking forward to the big sit! I've been to Farmington Bay a few times this week to see what surrounding areas we should be scanning to maximize our species count... apparently, that area would be EVERYWHERE! This is gonna be a fun one.

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