Hello Birders! Wildlife Weekend is here! We are having 4 birding events this weekend. They start tonight with a campfire program featuring live owls at 7:00 pm. These owls will be coming from Warriors Path State Park in Kingsport, TN. Marty Silver will be doing the program, and if you have never met him, then this will be a real treat for you. Warriors Path is home to several recovering non-releasable raptors, which are used for educational programs. This will be followed at around 8:00 pm by an Owl Prowl Hike, led by Tom McNeil of Northeast State Technical Community College. This is always a fun program, and we will have a great chance to see or hear some of our common owls here. The most common owls in the park are Great Horned Owls and Eastern Screech-owls. The attached photo shows the two color morphs of the screech-owl, which we saw during our last Owl Prowl last January. Bring your flashlight. Saturday will start at 9:00 am with a bird hike led by Wallace Coffey. This is about the time that we began to see migrating waterfowl in the park last year, and there are a variety of birds that we could see during this trip. At 10:00 am Richard Lewis will be conducting a Bird Banding Program in the Grassland near the Civitan Shelter. Last year we banded Goldfinches, Song Sparrows, Cardinals, as well as other species. There was a lot of bird acitivity in the Grassland yesterday when I was cutting the lanes out for the nets. There is another picture attached to this email of a participant in last year's bird banding. He is releasing a Goldfinch after it had been measured and banded. The rest of the day Saturday will be filled with a variety of hikes and presentations on other subjects such as the Gray Fossil Site, an Ecology Hike, a hike to Slagle Hollow, Nature Photography, as well as many other great events. So come join the fun this weekend at Steele Creek Park. Kevin Elam Steele Creek Park Nature Center Manager (423)989-5616 <span id=m2wTl><p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" style="font-size:13.5px">_______________________________________________________________<BR>Get the FREE email that has everyone talking at <a href=http://www.mail2world.com target=new>http://www.mail2world.com</a><br> <font color=#999999>Unlimited Email Storage – POP3 – Calendar – SMS – Translator – Much More!</font></font></span>
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