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Where s George | Where’s George | St. George’s seventh annual Winter Bird Festival will wrap up Sunday: ST. GEORGE — St. George’s seventh annual Winter Bird Festival will wrap up Sunday with excursions to Zion National Park and the Parowan Gap area that are designed to appeal a wide variety of birders.

The four-day festival included field trips to watch and identify Southern Utah’s bird species, plus lectures on everything from bird-watching equipment to how birds think and they habitat they live in.

“This trip is to Toquerville, Grafton and Springdale,” said Kristine Crandall, who moved to St. George six weeks ago from Colorado, as she waited for an excursion to depart Saturday morning from Tonaquint Park. “I’m just starting to really learn the area and this is a great way.”

Dawn Eide-Albrecht, one of the festival’s volunteers, said some of the field trips, such as the Zion excursion, required pre-registration and limited the number of participants because of the special locations.

“All of the pre-registered field trips … have been maxed out for at least two to three weeks,” she said.

Kurt and Patrice Marcks said they made the six-hour drive from Riverside, Calif., after learning about the festival online.

“It’s fun to go someplace different to go birding,” Patrice said as her husband unloaded equipment from the car for his photography field trip.

For the complete story, see tomorrow’s edition of The Spectrum.
(thespectrum.com)