The Fourth Annual Sussex County Birding and Nature Festival
Saturday and Sunday, June 6 and 7, 2009
The New Jersey Audubon Society, County of Sussex and the Nature Conservancy have partnered to sponsor this annual birding and nature festival featuring a weekend of bird, butterfly and dragonfly walks and the Green Marketplace with displays by local vendors with products and services for a healthy earth. The festival is headquartered at the beautiful Appalachian at Mountain Creek resort in Vernon. Sussex County features many varied habitats and beautiful scenery with well over 120 nesting species of birds and a myriad of butterflies and wildflowers. Late spring migrants including Mourning Warbler and Olive-sided Flycatcher are also possible as well as 25 plus species of warblers. Sussex County features more species of dragonflies than any other county in the United States. Many of New Jersey’s premier field naturalists will be our guides for the weekend.
The weekend’s field trips will be followed by a luncheon featuring keynote speaker renowned author, magazine columnist and birder Pete Dunne with his program “25 Things That Changed Birding.” The luncheon will take place at the Appalachian on Sunday at 1 p.m. Come for the field trips or come for the luncheon or both. All trips will originate and depart from the Appalachian by car caravan or an arranged transit bus. There is not a better place in New Jersey to view natural history in June than in Sussex County.
Lodging, box lunches and luncheon only reservations are available. For more information please call the Sandy Hook Bird Observatory at 732-872-2500 or check our website at
http://njaudubon.org/Centers/SHBO/SussexWeekend.html
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http://njaudubon.org/Centers/SHBO/SussexWeekend.html
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