Text Box: Clinch Mountain Trails
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Migratory Birding Festivals

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Text Box: Fall Festival Schedule COMING SOON!!
For Ticket Holders:
Friday – May 12:  
Owl Hoot - 8 - 10:00 pm at Hungry Mother State Park
 
Saturday – May 13: 
Bird Walk in Saltville Well Fields - 7:00 - 9:30 am                          Guide: Wallace Coffey
This inland saline marsh attracts migrating warblers & the occasional shorebird.               
                 
Bird Walk in Elk Garden - 7:00 - 9:30 am                                                  Guide:  Dave Worley
Featuring the bobolink!
       
Great Blue Heron Rookery – 1:00 - 2:00 pm                                       
The rookery currently has over a dozen pairs of birds sitting on nests.
 
Sunday – May 14:  
Bird Walk at Raven Ridge on Clinch Mountain - 7:00 - 9:30 am
                                                                                                                     Guide:  Richard Kretz
 
Wild Anything Walk at Raven Ridge on Clinch Mountain – 9:45 – 11:00 am 
Guide:  Charles Kennedy
 
Note:  All walks are limited to 25 people.

Text Box: Here are more photos from the 
Spring Festival

Orphan Groundhog
 

Wynn-Wood Rehabilitation Center
 
For Non-Ticket Holders:
 
Saturday – May 13:
Hike to the Great Channels - 10:00 - 2:00             Guide:  The Nature Conservancy
 
Presentation: How to Photograph Birds - 10:30 - 11:30                  
Speaker: Richard Kretz
 
Nature Art Contest (Youth) Prize Ceremony - 12:00
 
Goose Control with Collies – 11:30 - 12:00        Demonstration by Tom Totten & his dogs
 
Bird Rehabilitation Display – 12:00 – 2:00                        Wynn-Wood Rehabilitation Center
 
Birding Basics Class - 1:00 – 1:45                      Allen Boynton, Regional Wildlife Manager
      Department of Game & Inland Fisheries
 
Presentation:  Banding Birds - 2:00 - 3:00           iddle Appalachians - 2:00 - 4:00      Open to the Public
                        
Hands-on Exhibits from 10:00 to 2:00 
 
 
Saturday evening activities:
Raven Ridge Campground Guests – Dinner & special viewing of the sawwhet owl
Backcountry Guests – Cook out

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