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Adventure of the Week: Festival celebrates wetlands wildlife
By Dan Vierria - dvierria@sacbee.com
Last Updated 11:07 am PST Thursday, February 21, 2008
Story appeared in SCENE section, Page E8
Field trips in the heart of the Pacific Flyway in Yolo County are among the activities during California Duck Days. Yolo Basin Foundation
Daffy and Donald aren't confirmed, but plenty of ducks and other wildlife will headline California Duck Days 2008, a family-friendly wetlands festival on Feb. 22 and 23.
Birders and other wildlife enthusiasts will converge on the Davis area and Saturday's main venue, the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area Headquarters, for scheduled field trips and workshops. The area is in the heart of the Pacific Flyway.
Field trips have been organized to accommodate beginning to experienced birders. Among the field-trip topics are local birding for beginners, raptors of the Central Valley and the birds of the Cache Creek Nature Preserve. A "Mystery Bird Trip" will help participants sight birds of prey in Yolo County.
Better quack-quacking will be taught in the duck-calling workshop. Artists can learn a thing or two enrolling in a waterfowl drawing class, and crafty types should enjoy a session on building bird boxes.
Hands-on activities rule during California Duck Days. Try trout fishing in the wetlands pond or making duck decoys from tules, just as indigenous people did and still do.
The workshop schedule also includes a bat workshop, a bird dog demonstration and decoy painting.
Along with field trips and workshops, there will be demonstrations, raffles, educational booths, food, live music and the California Waterfowl Association's Duck Days Dinner at the Veterans Memorial Center in Davis (6 p.m. Saturday, $60 per person).
Proceeds from the dinner will help fund conservation and education on waterfowl and wetlands. For more information on Saturday night's dinner: (530) 662-2042.
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CALIFORNIA DUCK DAYS 2008
Where: Davis, Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area Headquarters
When: Feb. 22: 5:30-7:30 p.m. reception at the Davis Art Center, 1919 F St.; Feb. 23: assorted field trips, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and workshops, 8:15 a.m. to 3 p.m. Preregistration is recommended, as some field trips and workshops fill up quickly.
Cost: The Feb. 22 reception is free. the Feb. 23 events: $20 for ages 16 and older, free under 16.
Directions for the Feb. 23 scheduled events: From Interstate 80, take the Mace Boulevard exit. Turn left at offramp light. Turn left at the next light (the Mace Boulevard-Chiles Road intersection). Travel 11/ 2 miles east to the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area Headquarters office at 45211 County Road 32B (Chiles Road).
The Yolo Wildlife Area is two miles east of the office. Drive up onto the levee at the end of Chiles Road. (Do not go under the freeway.) Turn left at the top of the levee and enter Yolo Wildlife Area.
For more information: Registration forms and a complete schedule of events can be found at www.yolobasin.org or call the Yolo Basin Foundation, (530) 757-3780.
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