Schedule:

6:30 pm - Nature Through Art: Level Up Your Bird Photography

FREE

Western Sports Park

Attend our FREE Nature Through Art workshop with local photographer Mary Anne Karren

6:30 pm - Nature Through Art: Watercolor Bird Illustrations

FREE

Western Sports Park

Attend our FREE Nature Through Art workshop with local artist Lyra Zoe Smith.

Wings & Things Vendor Fair

FREE

Western Sports Park

Explore our new vendor booths for a unique shopping experience!

1:00 - 1:50 pm - Utah Butterfly Basics

FREE

Western Sports Park

This presentation explores the life histories, habitat, and distribution of several Utah butterflies from varying geographic regions.

2:00 - 2:50 pm - How to Help Injured Wildlife

FREE

Western Sports Park

In this presentation, we will cover bird species commonly found injured, ill, or orphaned in our urban environments and frequent injury types.

4:30 - 5:00 pm - Owl Pellet Dissection

FREE

Western Sports Park

Embrace your inner scientist with this fun family activity. Dissect a real (sanitized) owl pellet to discover what the owls have been dining on!

4:30 - 6:00 pm - Live Birds with Long Wing Inc.

FREE

Western Sports Park

In this meet and greet program for all ages, people can ask questions, observe wild birds up close, and take photos with the birds.

6:00 am - 12:00 pm - Fairfield Birding Oasis

$95

Western Sports Park

Enjoy exclusive access to a special project on private land – a habitat that has been carefully developed and curated over the past 20 years.

6:00 am - 4:00 pm - Mountains in May

$79

Pitta Tours

Join us for a day exploring the Wasatch Mountains and the incredible birds that inhabit the west fringe of the Rocky Mountains. Visit Pitta Tours to register.

7:00 am - 9:00 am or 9:00 am - 11:00 am - Mist Netting & Bird Banding at Farmington Creek

$25

Eccles Wildlife Education Center

Learn how and why biologists use fine “mist” nets for trapping small birds and so much more.

7:00 - 11:00 am - Buffalo Ranches Pond near Farmington Bay

$30

1954 W Glovers Lane, Farmington

Buffalo Ranches Ponds, on the eastern shore of the Great Salt Lake flyway, is a migrant trap where 200+ bird species have been observed.

7:00 am -1:00 pm - Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge - Guided Auto Tour and Walk Behind the Gates

$80

Western Sports Park

Spend a day with expert birders on a birding adventure at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge.

7:00 am - 3:00 pm - Sage-Steppe Birding at Promontory Point

$95

Western Sports Park

See birds associated with many habitats in sagebrush and upland communities

7:30 am -12:00 pm - Digiscoping at Farmington Bay

$95

Eccles Wildlife Education Center

"Digiscoping" is a method of telephoto photography, often used by placing a digital camera to the eyepiece of a spotting scope or binoculars to take photos.

8:00 am - 12:00 pm - Photography at Farmington Bay
 
$30

Eccles Wildlife Education Center

We’ll have hands-on sessions at each stop for photographing birds with a tripod as well as hand-held shooting and shooting from a car.

4:00 PM - Cassia Overnight

$399

Pitta Tours

Join our guide in search of Cassia Crossbill, Flammulated Owl, and up to 100 more species! Expect to see around 75-100 species of birds.

4:00 - 7:00 pm - Evening Photography in East Farmington

$30

Farmington Bench

Join award winning photographer Elizabeth Moon as she takes you birding along the Farmington mountainside.

5:30 - 8:00pm - E-Bike at Farmington Bay

$90

Eccles Wildlife Education Center

This trip is for the adventurer who wants an easy biking tour of Farmington Bay. Experience sunset at one of the best birding spots in the state.