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If you would like to participate in Morning Bird Watching Trips or the Birding Big Day call Vermilion Community College at 235-2162.
Bill Tefft at 235-2197 can answer questions about any of these activities.

This spring those who call and sign up will meet on Thursday mornings from April 3 through May 8 to head out from the parking lot in front of Vermilion Community College at 6:00 am and return by 7:45 am. These morning field trips will also continue weekly from May 8 throughout the summer on Wednesday mornings.

International Migratory Bird Day occurs each year on the second Saturday of May. The 2008 theme is Tundra to Tropics: Connecting Birds, Habitat and People. There will be information presented to the local schools this spring and a morning field trip on Saturday, May 10 to the
Darwin Myers Wildlife Management Area in Embarrass, MN. Anyone who
would like to attend should meet in the Finnish Heritage Tour Center parking lot at the intersection of Hwy 135 and Hwy 21 approximately 10 miles north of Aurora or 10 miles south of Tower, in the community of Embarrass. This will be a morning outing and you should arrive between 7:00 and 9:00 to join a group going to walk the dikes surrounding wetlands created to grow wild rice.

When May draws to a close and many of our summer resident bird species have arrived, there will be another bird watching trip that occurs annually. This Birding Big Day will occur on Saturday, May 31 and the participants will meet at Vermilion Community College at 6:00 am. The day will be spent traveling to many places with the purpose of seeing and hearing as many types of birds as possible during the day.

The group will stop for lunch in Babbitt or Embarrass and return by 5:00 pm.