On the Road: Snow goose festival
Port Susan Snow Goose and Birding Festival
WHAT: The 11th annual festival includes seminars, speakers, tours and children’s activities. There are 12 parks on Camano Island that offer locations to view birds.
WHEN: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Feb. 27 and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Feb. 28.
WHERE: Festival headquarters at the Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center, 27130 102nd Ave. NW, Stanwood.
TOURS: Among the activities are guided tours of birding locations in the area. They include a birding and hiking tour on Camano Island, a tour of the Nature Conservancy’s Port Susan Bay Preserve and a tour looking for snow geese, swans and bald eagles. There also are self-guided tours of Iverson Spit and English Boom on Camano Island and of the Big Ditch in Stanwood.
OTHER ACTIVITIES: There also will be classes, speakers and a chance to see live raptors. They include a shorebird identification class, a program on the snow geese that migrate from Russia to the North Puget Sound and a review of the Fir Island Farm estuary restoration.
COST: Admission is free. Some areas on self-guided tours require a Washington Discovery Pass for entrance.
INFORMATION: For maps and lists of sites and what to bring and special event announcements, go to sahs-fncc.org. For festival information, go to snowgoosefest.org.
Jeffrey P. Mayor, jeff. mayor@thenewstribune.com
This story was originally published February 17, 2016 at 6:55 PM with the headline "On the Road: Snow goose festival."