May 22 – 25 & May 28 – 31, 2020 Celebrating Birds!
Welcome to our 23rd annual Huron Fringe Birding Festival where we celebrate birds, birding and nature. The Festival is based out of beautiful MacGregor Point Provincial Park, where events explore the rich niches of the Park, and also venture throughout the ‘Huron Fringe’ of land along Lake Huron’s shore, up the bountiful Bruce Peninsula, and to many significant natural areas of Bruce and Grey Counties.
The Festival offers an incredible 95 events over two 4-day weekends in late May! This time of year captur
es both the end of migration and the beginning of the nesting season, ensuring an abundance of birds. Morning, afternoon, all-day and evening events are offered daily. You can choose to attend one, some, or pick a full-Festival package! All events are led by top local, provincial and global tour leaders.
Whether your interest is strictly ‘for the birds’, or if you wish to delve into botany, photography, geology, cultural history and more, you will be sure to find interesting, informative and fun events. But sign up early as many events fill within the first few days of registration. This is one popular Festival!
A banquet, with a keynote speaker, is held the opening Saturday of the Festival; a ‘dinner under the tent’ is featured the second Saturday. Again, both these events fill quickly.
With a view to the future, the Festival offers a mentorship program where aspiring young birders and naturalists shadow our experienced leaders and pick up tips on effective leadership styles and methods. And the Festival hosts students from a FlemingCollege/ROM Environmental Visu- al Communication course designed to instruct students on how to become effective environmental communicators.
Rounding out the Festival, morning coffee & pastries are available, and sociable noon-hour BBQ lunches are provided daily by the Friends of MacGregor Point. And we can’t speak highly enough of our wonderful roster of warm and friendly Festival volunteers who are always on hand to assist you during your time at the Festival.
We hope you can join us! https://friendsofmacgregor.org/page/huron-fringe-birding-festival
