Syracuse.com - Montezuma Audubon Center's annual wildlife festival offers host of family-oriented activities

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The festival will celebrate important bird areas throughout the Finger Lakes Region and the conservation organizations that are working to identify and conserve areas that are vital to birds and other biodiversity.

Courtesy of Paul T. SchnellLiberty, the bald eagle, will be at the festival.The following is a press release:

There will be something for everyone at the Montezuma Audubon Center’s 6th Annual Wildlife Festival in Savannahfrom 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 5.

Friends with Feathers and The Institute for Environmental Learning will deliver live birds of prey programs throughout the day with a variety of owls, hawks, and “Liberty the Bald Eagle”. The non-releasable animals will be on display during the programs that will focus on birds of prey characteristics, rehabilitation and conservation. Everyone will have a chance to get a picture taken with “Liberty."

Another highlight of the festival will be the Children’s Theater and Activity Tent where Lois Sprague will entertain festive goers with balloon animals and Andrea Whitcomb-May will perform conservation-related puppet shows that are sure to inspire. Everyone can also enjoy the bounce house, dunk booth, sing a-longs and the drum circle, making bird crafts and stained glass art, wildlife trivia, and building a bluebird box. Wildlife enthusiasts can fish their way to the backyard bass game and then fly over to see the dragons from the pond.

The festival will celebrate Important Bird Areas throughout the Finger Lakes Region and the conservation organizations that are working to identify and conserve areas that are vital to birds and other biodiversity.

The festival schedule also includes: Dan the Snake Man programs, guided nature walks and canoeing excursions, a garlic mustard pull contest, a GPS treasure hunt, acoustic music from Tom Barnes and Chuck & Paul, delicious food, local vendors, a native plant sale, wildlife exhibitors and much more!

The cost to attend the festival is $3/adult, $1/school-aged child, FREE for children 4 and younger. For more information, call 315.365.3588, visit the center's Web site or e-mail [email protected].

The Montezuma Audubon Center is located at 2295 State Route 89 in Savannah, NY, about 1.5 miles north of the Hamlet of Savannah.

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