Be among the first to hear from authors about their just-released books at the Detroit Lakes Festival of Birds, May 14-17 held at the new lodge at Detroit Mountain Recreation Area. Thursday night features Bob Janssen and his new book, Birds of Minnesota State Parks. He follows a Thursday workshop on Grassland Sparrow I.D. by Doug Buri. Friday night Paul Baicich and Carrol Henderson share the story of their book Feeding Wild Birds in America at a renovated barn hayloft in lakes country. Saturday night's keynote is the grand prize winner of Audubon's photo contest, Melissa Groo (http://melissagroo.com/)
Morning fieldtrips with birding experts/naturalist to prairies, forests and wetlands (shorebirds arriving daily!) Free Saturday workshops, exhibitors, nature hike at Detroit Mountain, book signings. Program and registration (deadline May 11) at http://www.visitdetroitlakes.com/events/festival-of-birds. c l e o n e s t e w a r t Festival of Birds Co-chair ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
