"A Celebration of Nature"
Kirtland's Warbler Festival 2007 Schedule of Events
Saturday, May 19, 2007

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

Time Campus Grounds Campus Grounds Kirtland House Performing
Arts Center
INS Building Room 123 INS Building Room 11
7:00

Kirtland's Warbler Tour
(7 a.m.)

Whispering
Pines
Animal
Kingdom

(all day)

Nature
Arts & Crafts
(all day)

Warbler Wobble
 5-10k Run

BBQ
Chicken
Lunch
Hosted by
West Branch Masons

(11:30-2:30)

Shadow-Puppet Theater

Kids' Rock
Hunts

       
8:00 Kirtland's Warbler Tour
(8 a.m.)
9:00

Kids'
Activity
Tent

(9 - 4)

Kids'
Fishing
Pond

(9 - 'til mid-afternoon)

Silent Auction
(9 - 'til mid-afternoon)

Dedication of Kirtland's Warbler Management Units as an Important Bird Area (IBA)
(9:30 Festival
Main Tent)

Horse-drawn
Nature
Tours with
Karefree
Riding
Stable

(10 - 3)

Campus
Nature and Bird
Walk

(12:30-1:15)

Music by
Blue Water
 Ramblers

Juried
Nature
Fine
Arts
Show
(all day)

Meet-the-Artists Reception
at noon

Awards
presented at
1 p.m.

 

View the
Young
Artists
Calendar
Contest

entries
all day

10:15 Michigan Butterflies
and Moths

The Nature Discovery
(10:15)
The Kirtland's Warbler Winter Research and Training Project
Montara Roberts
 &
Dave Ewert
(10:15)

 

11:30 Warbler's World
Agency
Biologists
(11:30)
Global Warming and Potential Impacts on Birds
Eldon Greij
(11:30)
Creatures of the Shadows, Michigan’s Salamanders and Lizards
Jim Harding
(11:30)
1:30 FEATURED PRESENTATION
This & That
Bio-Chat
Al Batt
(1:30)
   
3:00 The Marvels and Mechanics of Avian Flight
Eldon Greij
(3:00)
The Kirtland's Warbler Winter Research and Training Project
Montara Roberts
 &
Dave Ewert
(3:00)
Creatures of the Shadows, Michigan’s Salamanders and Lizards
Jim Harding
(3:00)
4:15   Michigans Eagle Overview
Jerry Weinrich (4:15)
Michigan Snakes
The Nature Discovery

(4:15)
OTHER FESTIVAL-DAY ACTIVITIES IN THE STUDENT CENTER:
Early Bird Breakfast in the KCC Cafe 6-11 a.m.
Mikenauk Rock and Gem Society
Featured Photographer - Geary Hoffman
Mio Post Office  - Get your mail  stamped with special festival cancellation
Displays by: DNR, US Forest Service,  US Fish & Wildlife Service, Huron Pines RC&D
Displays by a Biodiversity of  Conservation Organizations
Cafeteria will be open: 6 a.m.- 4 p.m.
Bookstore will be open:  9:30 a.m. - 2 p.m.

OFF-CAMPUS NATURE & BIRDING FIELD TRIPS (meet at site:
Gahagan Nature Preserve - Friday 5 p.m.
Houghton Lake Flats Field Trip - Saturday 6 p.m
Wakeley Lake Wildlife Walk - Saturday 7 p.m.
Jones Farm Tour; Grassland and Wetland Bird Walk - Sunday 8 a.m.