BF Schedule

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Register or check in and receive your passport with information directing you to staffed birding stations and other “birdy” areas.
Register for field trips if you haven’t done so already online.
Enjoy a guest speaker (this year it is Cathy Nowak who will talk about her work with Sandhill Cranes), music and snacks, pick-up some Friends of Ladd Marsh merchandise, and chat with friends.

4:45 am	Ladd Marsh Wildlife Area opens to public access with passport; see the map at the following link for details: Ladd Marsh Bird Festival.
6:00 am	Register at the Festival Information Trailer in the Tule Lake Public Access Area on Peach Road. Register for available spaces on field trips.
6:00 am – 12 Noon	Staffed Birding Stations open.
8:00 am	Field trip at GROWISER on Pumpkin Ridge starts. Participants travel to the site on their own, so plan on leaving La Grande by 7:30 am. Directions here: GROWISER
9:00am	Taking the kids to school field trip leaves Station 5; see Ladd Marsh Bird Festival map.
12 Noon	Registration closes.
8:45 pm	Ladd Marsh Wildlife Area closes to public access. Sunday

4:30 am – 10:30 am

Field trips depart from designated locations as follows. Please plan to be at the meeting places 15 minutes before departure time:

5:00 am – Rhinehart Canyon for Early Risers – UC Senior Center
6:30 am – Inside the Marsh – Peach Lane Fishing Pond
6:30 am – Birds and Botany of the Pondera Pine Forest – UC Senior Center
6:30 am – Birding for Beginners – UC Senior Center
6:30 am – Grande Ronde Valley Hotspots – Peach Road Registration Area
8:00 am – GROWISER – participants drive on their own to starting point at GROWISER.
9:00 am – Taking the kids to school – Station 5
10:30 am Rhinehart Canyon for Afternooners – UC Senior Center

4:45 am

Ladd Marsh Wildlife Area opens to public access with passport.

8:45 pm

Ladd Marsh Wildlife Area closes to public access.