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Coming up on its eighth year, the Excellent Salt Lake Bird Watching Festival is good get away for birders. Of course, a opportunity to check out Salt Lake City isnt so poor either.

Excellent Salt Lake Bird Watching Festival

The Fantastic Salt Lake Bird Watching Festival is both a mouthful and a great occasion. Close to Salt Lake City, but truly centered in Farmington, Utah, the festival is put on by the Davis County Tourism agency and generally runs for five days in the final two weeks of May possibly every year.

As with a lot of birding festivals, the Fantastic Salt Lake Bird Watching Festival provides workshops for kids and adults. Workshops incorporate every little thing from constructing bird homes, birding for youngsters, and lectures on a range of bird species with physical birds present.

Of course, field trips are the important to any bird watching festival and Great Salt Lake Bird Watching Festival doesnt disappoint. Traditional sighting trips can be taken on land. The added bonus, however, is the fact birders can rent kayaks to float about the lake looking for new life birds.

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Prevalent Sightings

Although each and every year will present variations, a birder can anticipate to see a assortment of bird species at Great Salt Lake Bird Watching Festival. A variety of Heron, Pelican, Grebe and Cormorant species are plentiful. White-faced Ibis and Snowy Egrets are also often seen as are a range of geese and ducks. A selection of falcons and hawks are surprisingly plentiful, but there is one particular prize certain to make it on you life list.

The uncommon American Bald Eagle lives in the region. Due to low population numbers, there is no guarantee youll see one particular, but at least 4 sightings occurred at the 2004 festival.

Regardless of whether you attend for the chance to see a bald eagle or the likelihood to meet other enthusiasts, the Great Salt Lake Bird Watching Festival is a great time.