7th Annual Snow Goose Festival, Jan. 27-29, 2006:
Events

Saturday Night, Jan. 28th:
Gathering of Wings Banquet & Silent Auction

Featured Speaker
Walt Anderson, master naturalist and author of Inland Island: The Sutter Buttes

Field Trips

6:45am - 3pm	Sacramento Valley Wetlands & Wintering Waterbirds
7am - 5pm	Refuge to Refuge
7:30am - 1pm	Dye Creek Preserve
7:30am - 1pm	Foothill Birding and Mist Net Demonstration
8am - 10am	Birding Dog Island Park
8am - Noon	USFWS Llano Seco & Beginning Birding
8am - 12:30pm	Vina Plains to Pine Creek & The River
8am - 4pm	Sutter Buttes Hike:Dean Ranch
8am - 4pm	Sutter Buttes Hike: Peace Valley
8:30am - noon	Feather River Region & Nature Trail
8:30am - 12:30pm	Rancho Esquon
8:45am - 2pm	Gray Lodge Wildlife Area
9am - 10:15am	Beginning Birding for Kids
9am - 11:30am	Beginning Birdwatching with Field Trip to Genetic Resource Ctr
9am - 11:30am	Explore the SRDC and the Red Bluff Recreation Area
9am - Noon	Book Family Farm
9am - 3pm	Herbivores Sustaining Working Landscapes
10am - 2pm	Sacramento River Management Area
12:30pm - 4:30pm	Birding in Paradise
1pm - 4pm	Lundberg Family Farms
1pm - 4pm	Birding in Bidwell Park
1pm - 4:30pm	Del Rio Wildland Preserve
1pm - 4pm	Rancho Esquon

Workshops

9am - 10:30am	All About Bats
9am - 10:30am	Amazing Migrations
10:30am - Noon	Bat Box Building
10:30am - Noon	Children's Raptor Program
11am - 12:30pm	Introduction to Slow Foods
11am - 12:30pm	Armchair Tour of Black Butte Lake
1pm - 2:30pm	Attracting Birds & Butterflies to your Backyard
1pm - 2:30pm	A Celebration of Wild … Here and There - Wetlands & Alaska
3pm - 5pm	Basic Nature & Wildlife Photography Workshop

Field Trips

7:30am - noon	Oxidation Ponds & Indian Fishery
7:30am - 2pm	Bird the Shores of Black Butte Lake
7:45am - 3pm	Birding Lake Red Bluff Rec Area & Environs
8am - noon	Photography at Sacramento Refuge
8am - 4pm	Sutter Buttes Hike: Mid-Mountain
8am - 4pm	Sutter Buttes Hike: Summit Ascent
8:30am - 4:30pm	Sutter Buttes Hike: With Walt Anderson
8:30am - 12:30pm	USFWS Llano Seco & Beginning Birding
8:30am - 12:30pm	Kayaking the Forebay
8:30am - 12:30pm	Feather River's Bedrock Park
10am - 2pm	Bike and Bird with Chico Velo
11:45am - 4:30pm	Gray Lodge Wildlife Area
12:30pm - 4:30pm	Hiking Tour of Riparian Restoration Sites
12:30pm - 5pm	Wing-It to the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge
1pm - 4pm	Birds, Plants and Indian Shelter

Workshops

9am - 10am	Raptor Identification
9am - 10am	Birds of Bidwell Park
10:30am - Noon	Falconry: The World's Oldest Field Sport
11am - Noon	Wide Wonderful World of Birds
11am - Noon	Armchair Tour of Feather River Canyon Wildlife
1pm - 2:30pm	Build Your Own Bamboo Birdbath & More