ANSTED, WV - a the Hummingbird and the butterfly is at the heart of a Festival scheduled for August 12-14 in the hawks nest State Park near the town of Ansted in Fayette County. Hummingbird weekend is supported by a variety of companies and it promises a fun outdoor event, according to Megan Flinn, hawks nest naturalist and host of the event website. "People are fascinated with hummingbirds and butterflies and weekends will good information, bird banding, learn and monitoring offer."
The Hummingbird weekend activities include:
A GLOBE certification Hummingbird workshop the workshop is scheduled for Friday, August 12 from 9: 00-15:30 covers the natural history of hummingbirds from feeding to nesting migration; observe and photograph Hummingbird behaviour; design a hummingbird Habitat; attract and the care of hummingbirds in your own backyard, schoolyard or nature center; Reporting hummingbird observations on EarthTrek and the GLOBE Program; by using of hummingbirds as a teaching tool; Banding hummingbirds; and other information. It specifies a fee. It is a fee of $30 for teaching certification and the workshop is limited to 20 people, at the age of 16 and up to and including lunch. Advance registration is required. Contact Rachel Davis on 304-574-4320 register and workshop details.
"Ruby - throated Hummingbird: from your garden in Costa Rica... and back!" is an evening program on 12 August from 7 am to 9 pm in the hawks nest Lodge. There are to visit no fee.
"Hummingbird banding, native plants and butterflies" Activities included in the Saturday, August 13, activities from 9 am 5 pm is a 10.00 session "Hummingbirds and plants" , and at 2 pm, a session on "Butterflies and plants" to.
Hummingbird banding on Sunday, August 14 continuingto observe from 8.00 am to 12.00 pm and public and, where appropriate, to support. "It's a very nice way for children and adults, Hummingbird map and information about their habits, and also about banding birds and the importance of studying migration," Flinn said.
Hummingbird-weekend event has three known authorities. Bill Hilton Jr. is a master Bander hummingbirds. Hilton is advice from new river birding & nature center, and a "50 best brains in science" Discover magazine. He is a Certified Bander with the U.S. fish and Wildlife Service. Connie Toops is an accomplished naturalist, nature writer and photographer. Toops wrote digest as recently published by the well received book "Hummingbirds and butterflies" Peterson field guides/bird watcher. Terri Johnson is with Honeysuckle Hill gardens nursery, greenhouse & gift shop in Oak Hill and identified with native plants, the hummingbirds and butterflies to win the garden.
Festival supporters include: perky-pet, Earth Trek, Wolf Creek Park, operation Rudy throat, ACE adventure resort, honeysuckle Hill gardens, New River Gorge CVB, the new river birding and nature Festival and hawks nest State Park.
Are discounted hawks nest lodge rooms, prices 20 percent for the Hummingbird Festival. Hawks nest restaurant will be featuring in the menu of specials throughout the weekend. Hawks nest State Park information call to 304 658 5212.
Hummingbird Festival is organized by Wolf Creek Park, South of historic Fayetteville, WV, a project owned by Fayette County urban renewal authority (URA). For more information, visit www.hawksnestsp.com and click on special events for event details.
About the GLOBE Program - RubyThroat operation: Hummingbird project
The global learning and observations in favour of the environment (GLOBE) program is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based science and education program. GLOBE vision promotes and supports students, cooperating teachers and scientists on inquiry-based investigations of the environment and Earth system working closely with NASA, NOAA, and NSF Earth system science projects (ESSP) in study and research on the dynamics of the Earth environment.
GLOBE vision is the worldwide community of students, teachers, scientists and citizens working together in order to better understand, maintain and improve soil environment on local, regional and global scales.
More than a million K-12 students in 10,000 schools in the GLOBE programme in the field and classroom by more than 16,000 GLOBE trained educators monitors have participated.
Teachers and other adults, which are not certified GLOBE and GLOBE Operation RubyThroat want to participate are encouraged, the certification workshop in the hawks nest State Park on the 12 August 2011 participate.
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