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Queen City Bird Festival

OXFORD — Audubon Miami Valley and Avian Research and Education Institute will celebrate the 4th annual Queen City Bird Festival from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 12 at Hueston Woods Nature Center, 6301 Park Office Road.

The festival seeks to engage children, their families and the general public in basic birding activities and to teach them to explore and value nature and to learn ways to conserve and enhance our natural world.

There will be numerous activities: bird walks, child-oriented art projects, and talks about birding basics, bird banding and bird habitat. Booths will inform visitors about the environment and conservation issues.

Vendors’ booths will offer food, nature photography, art and informational brochures.

Musicians will provide live music throughout the day.

Adults and children will have the opportunity to win prizes at hourly raffle drawings. Children also will have the opportunity to earn a Junior Birder’s Patch.

This year’s keynote speaker, Doug Feist, is the conservation education animal manager at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden. Co-author of the new Cincinnati Zoo Guidebook, Feist has been an avid bird watcher since boyhood. He will bring and talk about several exotic birds from the zoo.

This year’s festival will also host Audubon Miami Valley’s annual plant sale, formerly hosted at Shademakers. A variety of native, bird friendly plants and trees will be available for purchase.

A full schedule of the Queen City Bird Festival may be found on Audubon Miami Valley’s website. Volunteers will staff the festival.

Those interested in helping or anyone with further questions should contact the festival’s chair, Sarah Michael, at skmich ael@hotmail.com or (513) 523-3129.

Activies 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

  • Booth Activities for children and adults (see site map for locations and detail)
  • Audubon Miami Valley Plant Sale
  • AMV Art Contest Winners’ Show in Hueston Room (Park Office Building)
  • Food concession
  • Free raffles for children & adults
  • Speaker Schedule

Speaker Schedule 
Behind the raptor enclosure:

  • 11 a.m. Chad Smith, Park naturalist
  • Š 1 p.m. Fred Shaw, Shawnee storyteller
  • Š 2 p.m. Jim Williams, Naturalist

In the Hueston Room (Park Office Building):

  • Š 3 p.m. KEYNOTE SPEAKER, Cory Christopher, Cincinnati Zoo

Music

  • Š 9 – 11 a.m. Dan Spencer
  • Š 1 – 2 p.m. Ben Mattox

If you are interested in volunteering or helping organize, please contact Sarah Michael at sk65michael@gmail.com or 513-523-3129. SEE YOU THERE!