Colorado birders Please note below the announcement of the 1st annual Red Slough birding festival in southeast Oklahoma. For those not all that familiar with the area, the birding sites below will result in one heckuva trip list. LIttle River NWR has a good population of breeding Swainson's Warbler among many other breeding warbler species and obviously given the location and timing migrating warblers will be abundant. Red Slough rivals Quivira and Cheyenne Bottoms as a major wetland and also has southeastern breeding specialists such as Purple Gallinule, White Ibis and Anhinga. And the McCurtain Co. Wilderness area lying in the beautiful Ouachita mountain range has breeding Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Bachman's Sparrow and Brown-headed Nuthatch. A two-day Wichita (KS) Audubon trip to this area in the 2d week of May back in the late 1990's produced a trip list of nearly 200 species including over 25 warbler species, all in McCurtain County. This is a home-grown event with all the local avid birders helping out that know the place like the back of their hands. Whatever they are asking price-wise is going to be a bargain. Anyway they wanted the word spread around a bit so there you have it.
Pete Janzen Wichita The 1st annual Red Slough Birding Convention (McCurtain Co., OK) will be May 7 through 10 and will feature butterflies, dragonflies, and wildflowers as well as birds. It will involve other areas in the county besides Red Slough such as the Little River NWR, McCurtain County Wilderness Area, and a local Prairie Glade. Our Keynote speaker will be Dennis Paulson from Seattle. We also will have Dr. Mia Revels, Matt White, and John Fisher as speakers. There will be numerous tours everyday going to various locations. There will be a one time trip only to the McCurtain County Wilderness Area on Sunday morning with a limit on group size so hurry and sign up to make this one. All the information on the convention can be found at the following website: www.redsloughconvention.com <http://www.redsloughconvention.com/> . Check back from time to time for updates. Thanks to the Idabel Chamber of Commerce for doing such a good job of organizing this event! David Arbour De Queen, AR Visit the Red Slough Website: http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/ouachita/natural-resources/redslough/index.shtml --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
