What are you doing on MY Turf??

If you give me plenty of room you will be allowed to pass unharmed...

Photo by Donna Smith

Photos by Our Oregon Coast

Photos by OurOregonCoast.com

Photos by OurOregonCoast.com

The Oregon Shorebird Festival, one of the longest running bird festivals in Oregon, will  be celebrating the 24th annual Oregon Shorebird festival on August 27-29, 2010. A full weekend of activities planned for birders of all skill levels.

The festival is headquartered at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology in Charleston, OR. Activities include expertly guided land based field trips to Bandon Marsh National Wildlife Refuge, New River and the Coos Bay area. And for those who want to experience birding on the water, The Bird Guide, Inc. will offer a pelagic trip on Saturday. Expected seabirds include Black-footed Albatross, Parasitic Jaeger, Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel, Sooty & Pink-footed Shearwater, Pomarine Jaeger, Red-necked Phalarope, Cassin's Auklets, and more.

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By Lynne Terry for The Oregonian

A brown pelican regains freedom after months in rehab at the Wildlife Center of the North Coast near Astoria. Nearly a dozen were released this month and about 20 more will be freed in the weeks ahead. They washed up on Oregon beaches in January and February at a time when they should have been in California and Mexico.Nearly a dozen brown pelicans that bewildered scientists by lingering this winter on the Oregon coast instead of flying south have been returned to the wild.