12th Annual Flyway Festival
12th Annual Flyway Festival Celebrates the Return of Millions of Migrating Birds to San Francisco Bay Area
The 3-day event celebrates the return of over one million shorebirds and hundreds of thousands of ducks, geese, hawks and even monarch butterflies, which migrate through or winter in the San Francisco Bay Area.
This year the Festival will be held Friday, Feb. 1st through Sunday, February 3rd in Building 897 on Mare Island. Admission is free. Festival-goers will be able to choose from hundreds of fun activities, including a Family Wildlife Exploration and Birding Expo, guided nature walks, boat tours, birding and wild bird demonstrations, and art and photography exhibits.
The event is expected to include more than 60 regional outings throughout the Bay Area. Details of outings are being finalized for this year, but a sample from last year's event included: morning and evening boat tours of the Napa Marsh from Kennedy Park; a challenging 7-mile hike to Devil's Well, the Bay Area's most dramatic waterfall; a sunrise bald eagle and osprey boat tour at remote Lake Hennessey; daily rides aboard a 100 passenger ferryboat into the Suisun Marsh in search of a migrant Snowy owl, rarely seen in this State; a guided birdwatching trip in Bahia in eastern Marin County; a morning of birding at Viansa Winery's wetlands in Southern Sonoma County; daily outings to Skaggs Island, in Sonoma County, the north bay's premiere hawk viewing property with as many as 19 species sighted in past Festival visits; and a habitat hike at the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge Environmental Education Center in Alviso.
See the provided link for more details!
The 3-day event celebrates the return of over one million shorebirds and hundreds of thousands of ducks, geese, hawks and even monarch butterflies, which migrate through or winter in the San Francisco Bay Area.
This year the Festival will be held Friday, Feb. 1st through Sunday, February 3rd in Building 897 on Mare Island. Admission is free. Festival-goers will be able to choose from hundreds of fun activities, including a Family Wildlife Exploration and Birding Expo, guided nature walks, boat tours, birding and wild bird demonstrations, and art and photography exhibits.
The event is expected to include more than 60 regional outings throughout the Bay Area. Details of outings are being finalized for this year, but a sample from last year's event included: morning and evening boat tours of the Napa Marsh from Kennedy Park; a challenging 7-mile hike to Devil's Well, the Bay Area's most dramatic waterfall; a sunrise bald eagle and osprey boat tour at remote Lake Hennessey; daily rides aboard a 100 passenger ferryboat into the Suisun Marsh in search of a migrant Snowy owl, rarely seen in this State; a guided birdwatching trip in Bahia in eastern Marin County; a morning of birding at Viansa Winery's wetlands in Southern Sonoma County; daily outings to Skaggs Island, in Sonoma County, the north bay's premiere hawk viewing property with as many as 19 species sighted in past Festival visits; and a habitat hike at the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge Environmental Education Center in Alviso.
See the provided link for more details!