"A Celebration of Nature"
Kirtland's Warbler Festival 2004 Schedule of Events
Saturday, May 15, 2004

Chart indicates beginning times.  Presentations run from 45 minutes to 1 hour.

There is NO pre-registration required to attend the festival.  If you wish to attend the festival, just come to the Kirtland Community College campus on the days of the festival.  A registration fee of $5 for the purchase of a Kirtland's Warbler Festival button is required for entry to presentations and for the guided bus tour and is good for both Saturday and Sunday.

Time Campus Grounds Campus Grounds Conference Center INS Building Room 123 INS Building Room 11 Performing
Arts Center
Portables Student Center
7:00

Kirtland's Warbler Tour
(7:00)

Pancake Breakfast Hosted by
Fairview Lions

(6:30-11:00)

           
8:00 Kirtland's Warbler Tour
(8:00)
9:00

Kids'
Activity
Tent

(9:00-4:00)

Kids'
Fishing
Pond

(9:00 'til worms run out)

Silent Auction
(9:00
'til mid-afternoon)

Horse-dawn
Nature
Tours

(10:00-3:00)

Campus
Nature
Walk

(12:30-1:15)

Whispering Pines
Animal Kingdom

(all day)

Nature
Arts & Crafts
(all day)

Juried Nature
Fine
Arts
Show

Mikenauk Rock
&
Gem Society
 
(all day)

Kids'
Rock
Hunts

scheduled
for
11:00 & 2:30

 

Featured Artist: 
Chuck Forman

Feature Photographer:
Brian Faulstich

Mio Post Office
 - Get your mail
 stamped with
special festival
 cancellation

Displays
 by
:DNR, US
 Forst Service,
 US Fish &
 Wildlife Service,
 Huron Pines
 RC&D

Displays by a
 Biodiversity of
 Conservation
 Organizations

Music by
Blue Water
 Ramblers

Cafeteria:
 
9:30- 2:00 
B
ookstore:
 9:30-2:00

10:15 "Becoming a Better Birder"
Eldon Greij
(10:15)
"Warbler's World"
Wildlife Biologists
(10:15)
11:30 BBQ Chicken Lunch Hosted by West Branch Masons
(11:30-2:30)
"Michigan's Wild Woodlands"
Jenny Scullon
(11:30)
"Ancient Indian Pathways to Modern Hiking Trails"
Joe Bevirt
(11:30)
 
"Birdwatchers as Amateur Naturalists" 
Jim Davis
(11:30)
12:30      
1:30 "Exciting and Intriguing Bird Courtship"
 Eldon Greij
(1:30)
"The Birds
of the
Jack Pine
"
Ron Austing
(1:30)
 
"Rulers of
the Sky
"
Joe Rogers
Joe Rogers
(1:30)
3:00   "Ancient Indian Pathways to Modern Hiking Trails"
Joe Bevirt
(3:00)
"The Birds
of the
Jack Pine
"
Ron Austing
(3:00)
 
"The Art of
Interpretive Birding
"
Jim Davis
(3:00)
4:15 "Michigan's Wild Woodlands"
 Jenny Scullon
(4:15)
  "Rulers of
the Sky
"
Joe Rogers
(4:15)
OFF-CAMPUS NATURE & BIRDING FIELD TRIPS (meet at site):
Gahagan Nature Preserve - Friday 5:00pm
Houghton Lake Marsh Birding Field Trip - Saturday 6:00pm 
Wakeley Lake Owl Prowl and Bird Hike - Saturday 7:00pm
Birding Field Trip to Lois and Jeremy Jones Farm - Sunday 8:00am

TOUR GUIDES:
Chris Mensing-USFWS, Mike DeCapita-USFWS, Mike Petrucha-MDNR, Jerry Weinrich-MDNR (Ret),
Eve Rolandson-MDNR (Ret)