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Bird Festivals

• Brackendale Winter Eagle Festival  (January 3-31, 2004)
  
Squamish and Howe Sound Chamber of Commerce 
Box 1009, Squamish, BC V0N 3G0 Canada
604-892-9244 

• Comox Valley Trumpeter Swan Festival  (early February)
  
Trumpeter Swan Sentinel Society
#3-2401 Cliffe Ave., Box 169, Courtenay, BC V9N 2L5 Canada
250-334-3234

• Brant Wildlife Festival  (April 2-4, 2004)
  
Parksville - Qualicum Beach, Vancouver Island
Contact: Mid Island Wildlife Watch Society, Brant Wildlife Festival
174 Railway Street, Qualicum Beach, BC V9K 1K7 Canada
250-752-9171

• Great Blue Heron Festival  (April 18-20, 2003)     (last held in 2002)
Pitt Meadows Family Recreation Centre
12027 Harris Road, Pitt Meadows, B.C. (near Vancouver)
604-460-8300

• Osprey Festival  (June 14-15, 2003)
  
Creston, BC 
Contact: Creston Valley Wildlife Management, Osprey Festival
Box 640, Creston, BC V0B 1G0 Canada
250-428-3260

• Wood Duck Wilderness Festival   (May 3-4, 2003)     New URL 11/29!
  
Ruby Lake Resort, Site 20, Comp 25, RR#1, Madeira Park, BC, V0N-2H0 Canada
604-883-2269

• Ruby Lake Lagoon Nature Reserve Society 

• Wings Over the Rockies, The Columbia Valley Bird Festival  (May 309, 2004)
  
RR 4, #2, 1535 - 14st, Invermere, BC V0A 1K4 Canada
250-347-2207  or  1-888-933-3311

• Golden Wildlife Festival of Birds and Bears  (May 14-16, 2004)
  
Box 1320, Golden, BC V0A 1H0 Canada 
800-622-GOLD (4653)

• Salmon Arm Grebe Festival  (May)     New URL 11/29!  
  
(held at Marine Park at the Wharf in Salmon Arm) 
Contact: Carole Lee/Mary Regier
250-832-1389  or  grebe@shuswap.net

• Meadowlark Festival  (May 15-19, 2003)
  (Features naturalists, educators and scientists leading tours from Antelope Bush-Grasslands to alpine meadows at high elevation -- plus art show, nature expo, banquet, speakers, and Big Day Challenge Birdathon )
  P. O. Box 20133, Penticton, BC V2A 8K3 Canada
  250-492-LARK (5275)

• Wildlife Festival for Youth   (June 5-6, 2003)
  212-1708 Dolphin Avenue, Kelowna, BC V1Y 9S4 Canada
  250-861-9474
  

• Return of the Osprey    (June 10, 2001)
  North Vancouver, BC
  
Contact: WBT Wild Bird Trust of British Columbia 
#124 - 1489 Marine Drive, West Vancouver, BC V7T 1B8 Canada
604-924-2581

• Fraser Valley Bald Eagle Festival  (Nov 22-23, 2003)
  
Harrison and Fraser Rivers (from Mission to Harrison Hot Springs) 
Contact:  Mission Regional Chamber of Commerce
34033 Lougheed Highway, Mission, BC, Canada, V2V 5X8
604-826-6914

• Snow Goose Month
  Reifel Migratory Bird Sancturay
  Goose  or  604-946-6980
  

Pacific Rim Whale Festival  (March 12-21, 2004)
Tofino and Ucluelet
Box 428, Ucluelet, BC V0R 3A0
Gray Whale  or  250-726-464  or  250-725-3414

• Mountain Wildflower Festival  (August 5-7, 2002)  
  (may just have guided wildflower tours now)
  
c/o Silver Star Mountain Resort 
Vernon, BC Canada 
250-542-0224