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Oregon Tide Tables
| Birding and Blues Festival - April 9-11, 2010 |
| Pacific City |
Celebrate Nature with Your Head, Heart and Soul
Learn Experience and Celebrate LifeFor three days discover secrets about the intriguing bird life and wildlife along our spectacular Oregon coast. There will be morning guided field trips and interactive daytime seminars. Then, each evening after an ocean sunset, try some fine restaurant fare, check out the art galleries, and warm your soul with blues in the night. Expect dancing and concerts both Friday and Saturday night plus music around town. The festival is scheduled for April 9-11, 2010 in Pacific City. April sits at the front door of the migratory season when birders ready themselves for the wildlife's seasonal awakening. The weather is starting to include many spring-like days and the birds are become more lively. Back by popular demand - Nestucca River Boat Tours & Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge Twenty miles north of Lincoln City, at Pacific City, begins Three Capes Drive. It is a scenic route that runs along the ocean starting running from Pacific City north 22 miles to Tillamook. It includes Cape Kiwanda, Cape Lookout, and Cape Meares. Birders have discovered that Pacific City is surrounded by diverse habitats: ocean shore, marine headlands, coastal rocks and islands, bays, rivers, wetlands, dunes, coastal rainforests, and farmland. Traveling north on the scenic route you will first find the Nestucca River and wildlife refuge, then the Sandlake estuary, Whalen Island, Cape Lookout State Park, Netarts Bay, Oceanside, Three Arch Rocks, Cape Meares, Bay Ocean Spit, and Tillamook Bay. Pacific City boasts of Haystack Rock, home to the roosting Semedi Island Cackling Goose and the shy Tufted Puffin. Binoculars are a necessity in this entire Three Capes region as each turn brings new wildlife surprises. Proceeds from this annual event are used by the Pacific City Birding and Blues Foundation to develop wildlife education, brochures, maps, trails and interpretive signs for this wonderful stretch of the Oregon coast. Check out the two large wildlife interpretive panels erected on our Cape Kiwanda kiosk near the Pelican Pub! (A gift to the community from the Birding and Blues Foundation, the Tillamook PUD, and with the cooperation of the Pacific City/Nestucca Valley Chamber of Commerce.) 2010 Featured Speaker - Paul Bannick
An experienced naturalist and outdoor educator, Paul creates most of his images while kayaking, hiking or snowshoeing in the Pacific Northwest . After graduation from the University of Washington, Paul worked successfully for 15 years in the computer software industry beginning as one of the original 75 employees of the Aldus Corporation, and then for Adobe Systems, and Microsoft. Paul, wishing to combine his passion for wilderness conservation with his career, focused his attention to non-profit work and currently serves as the Director of Development for Conservation Northwest (www.ConservationNW.org). Saturday Headliner Concert: Kolvane
o Guided Field Trips Register for your passes early as tickets go fast. Limited spaces will be available for walk-ins during the events, so pre-registration is strongly recommended! More Info Learn secrets about local nature from highly credentialed naturalists and birders. Meet like-minded nature-lovers as you take field trips at some of our area's best birding sites. In the evenings kick it up and enjoy dancing with some of the Northwest's best blues performers. 2010 Birding and Blues Festival Program-Raptors on The Rise
This year will feature two different wildlife rehabilitation groups showcasing birds from eagles to hawks to owls and the stories behind them. Badger Run will present a Friday evening demonstration at 5:15 p.m. Wildlife Images will showcase their raptors at 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 10. Both presentations are geared with children in mind, but also offer more seasoned birders the chance to get a close look at these birds that are so crucial to the ecosystem in Pacific City and beyond. A non-profit that aims to provide for the care and treatment of sick, injured and orphaned wildlife, Wildlife Images also specializes in educational programs on wildlife, conservation and the environment. The organization's clinic, animal sanctuary, and education center are located on 24 acres of land adjacent to the wild and scenic section of Oregon's Rogue River. Based in Klamath Falls, OR, Badger Run is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the care and treatment of injured and orphaned wildlife. Though their goal is to return these creatures back to the wild, for those unable to live free, yet able to live without pain or suffering, Badger Run provides life-long care at their facility and uses some of these birds and animals as ambassadors to help educate the public. Friday April 9, 2010 Native Prairie Restoration
Kid Activity: Painting Bird Banners
Birds of Prey Exhibit
Saturday, April 10. 2010 Spring Shorebird Migration
Featured Presentation: The Owl and the Woodpecker
Birds of Prey
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Do you love wildlife? Do you watch for new birds at your feeder? While traveling, do you linger to get a good look at an unusual bird? Maybe you are even recording a life bird list.Then perhaps you know why birding is one of Oregon’s most popular outdoor activities (just behind gardening). So what would be more natural than to gather wildlife lovers like you for a most unique, stimulating, and fun nature festival? Come on. You are invited to join our Seventh Annual Pacific City BIRDING AND BLUES FESTIVAL.
-The sights and sounds of birders' favorite raptors will swoop down to Kiawanda Community Center Friday and Saturday, April 9-10, 2010 during the Pacific City Birding & Blues Festival.
2:30-3:30 p.m., Kiawanda Community Center. Learn about efforts to return the Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge to its native coastal prairie state in this seminar by Rebecca Chuck, deputy project leader for the USFWS's Oregon Coast National Wildlife Refuge Complex. Chuck will share how the USFWS is introducing early blue violet to the Refuge in hopes of attracting the endangered Silverspot Butterfly, a species that exists in similar habitats at Cascade Head and Mt. Hebo and likely existed here before the area was settled.
3:45-5 p.m., Kiawanda Community Center. In this work session led by Mark and Kim Cavatorta, children 8-18 will have the chance to help create a series of banners that will adorn the Birding and Blues Festival. Each banner will feature a 22- by 30-inch painting of a local bird using bright colors on black paper. Mark Cavatorta teaches art at Nestucca Jr./Sr. High School, while his wife Kim serves as the director of the Community Arts Project, which brings art education to kids via Slug Soup, a summer enrichment program and the Art Literacy program, which presents monthly art lessons to area elementary students. The class is limited to the first 12.
5:15-6:15 p.m., Kiawanda Community Center. Why do owls hunt at night? What's the difference between a hawk and a falcon? How can I help a baby bird that has fallen out of the nest? Come get up close and personal with some of the Animal Ambassadors from Badger Run Wildlife Rehab and learn the answers to these and many more questions. Badger Run Badger Run Wildlife Rehab is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the care and treatment of injured and orphaned wildlife. For wildlife unable to live free, yet able to live without pain or suffering, the organization provides life-long care at its facility and uses some of these birds and animals as ambassadors, to help educate the public.
9:30-10:45 a.m., Kiawanda Community Center. Join author and guide John Rakestraw in this program designed to help you find and identify the many species of shorebirds that pass through Oregon in the spring. Champions of long-distance migration, shorebirds make their way each spring from their wintering grounds in South America to breeding grounds in the arctic. Separating the different species may seem daunting at first, but once you learn to use clues of size, shape, plumage, habits, and habitats, you will soon be identifying shorebirds like a pro. The author of Birding Oregon, Rakestraw teaches classes for the Audubon Society of Portland and serves as a guide for Paradise Birding.
11 a.m.-noon, Kiawanda Community Center. Paul Bannick will share images from “The Owl and the Woodpecker,” his book that was singled out as one of five finalists for the 2009 Washington State Book Awards in the General Non-Fiction category. Based on thousands of hours in the field photographing these fascinating and wily birds, Bannick evokes all 41 North American species of owls and woodpeckers, across 11 key habitats. “The Owl and the Woodpecker” showcases a sense of these birds’ natural rhythms, as well as the integral spirit of our wild places. Bannick specializes in the natural history of North America, with a special focus on his beloved Pacific Northwest with a goal of creating images that foster intimacy between the viewer and subject in order to inspire education and conservation. Sponsored by Oregon Coast Bank.
1-1:45 p.m., Kiawanda Community Center. Learn about the natural history and personal stories behind raptors presented by Wildlife Images, an animal sanctuary, and education center located on 24 acres of land adjacent to the wild and scenic section of Oregon’s Rogue River. In this 45-minute presentation geared towards kids and adults, Wildlife Images will present birds of prey including a bald eagle, great-horned owl, redtailed hawk, and American kestrel. Attendees will also learn about Wildlife Image’s mission to provide for the care and treatment of sick, injured and orphaned wildlife. A question and answer session will follow. Birds at the presentation are subject to change.