2011 Winter Wings Festival
We hope you enjoyed the festival.
Join us again next year!
The annual northward migration is well underway. Here are some photos taken over the February 6, 2011 weekend:
Festival Updates
Friday Night Bird Quiz Keynote - Several sponsors (Canon, American Birding Association, and the Klamath Basin Audubon Society(KBAS) have donated prizes for the Bird Quiz contestants and audience members. Don't miss this event! We'll be talking about it for years to come.
Vendors - Four optic sales representatives representing 5 product lines will be joining us. We will be collecting your used equipment at the ABA birders exchange near the KBAS table. Also, we are pleased to announce that representatives of the Oregon Field Ornithologists and OSU Press will be joining us. Check out the other gear, nature products, photography and art that will be available on this website under "Vendors".
Field Trips - We still have availability on the Saturday Laid Back Birding, Friday North Basin Highlights, Sunday Lava Beds, and the Friday and Sunday Flyout field trips. Don't miss out! If you are coming from out of the area and are looking for a birding tour opportunity on Saturday, email our registrar and we may be able to help out. Also, there are always some last minute cancellations.
Raffle - Our Alaska Airline travel voucher raffle tickets are selling briskly. See the details on this website under "Other Events" and reserve your raffle tickets now. We will sell a maximum of 200!
Free Print - Canon is offering a free 8 1/2' x 11" print if you stop by their vendor station with your image on a thumb drive.
Lodging - The Running Y Lodge is now offering a special festival rate.
Comments from Past Attendees
From Scott Weidensaul:
"The Winter Wings Festival is one of the best-organized and most well-run events I've ever attended. My hat's off to the coordinators -- everything seemed to go along at a quiet hum. The attendees had a fantastic time, and the raptors were amazing!"
From Pete Dunne:
...."Straddling the states' order, this complex of marsh, lakes and agricultural land offers a cornucopia for wintering waterfowl and raptors During January and February, more than 1,000 Bald Eagles infest the region, but it's the hundreds of Tundra Swans I remember most, filling the winter-stilled air with calls that are one part whoop, one part sigh".
[My Top 25 Birding Sites by Pete Dunne in March/April 2011 WildBird Magazine Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuge]
From Glen Lindeman, Salem Audubon:
"Oh it's a great festival," especially if you're not an avid birder, he said. "They've got so many programs for interests other than specifically birds."
..."World-class speakers," Lindeman said. "The last two years I went, I was rubbing elbows and knees with the guys who wrote the bird books that I'd been reading -- Pete Dunne and Scott Weidensaul -- get to know the personalities that wrote the ID books and other stuff. "It's great fun."
[Birder's Weekend by Henry Miller in the January 23, 2011 Statesman Journal, Salem Oregon]
From Mark Fitzgerald:
"After living in the Pacific Northwest for almost twenty years, I never had the opportunity to get a decent photo of a Bald Eagle Even with a special trip to the Puget Sound area last January, I only saw a few of them, with little opportunity to get a good photo of one. That all changed when I went to the Winter Wings Festival in Klamath Falls, Oregon last February".
[Digital Darkroom Blog]
2011 Keynoters
Friday February 18, Jeffrey Gordon
Jeffrey A. Gordon is a writer, photographer and naturalist who lives in Lewes, Delaware. In addition to leading birding tours around a goodly portion of the globe, he is a frequent speaker and trip leader at birding and nature festivals. He serves as field editor for Birdwatcher's Digest, and is the coordinator for the Delaware Birding Trail. Since 2003, he has led tours part-time, frequently visiting Canada, Texas, Mexico, and Panama. He authored 11 of the chapters in the 2005 book Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges, and contributed an essay to the 2007 collection, Good Birders Don't Wear White: 50 Tips from North America's Top Birders. He recently produced a series of video podcasts in conjunction with the new Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, and provided the bird photographs for the 2010 Peterson Field Guides to Eastern and Western birds.
Saturday February 19, Art Morris
Sponsored by our Title Sponsor: Canon in partnership with Leo's Camera and Pro Photo Supply
Art Morris is a free-lance nature photographer and writer specializing in birds. With more than 20,000 of his stunning images published in books, magazines, and calendars all over the globe, Art Morris is widely recognized as the world's premier bird photographer. His images are noted for both their artistic design and their technical excellence. His fitting credit line: BIRDS AS ART. His book, "The Art of Bird Photography" is - with more than 30,000 copies sold - the classic How-to work on the subject. The all-new follow-up, "The Art of Bird Photography II" (916 pages on CD only) has sold more than 3,500 copies. He is a contributing editor with Nature Photographer and is a Popular Photography columnist. Art, one of the original "Explorers of Light," has been a Canon contract photographer for the past ten years and continues in that role today.
Photo by Art Morris
Photo by Art Morris
