The Fifth Annual

PACIFIC CITY

BIRDING AND BLUES FESTIVAL
2008

Celebrate Nature with Your Head, Heart and Soul

 Do you love wildlife?  Do you watch for new birds at your feeder?  While traveling, do you linger to get a good look at an unusual bird?   Maybe you are even recording a life bird list.  Then perhaps you know why birding is one of Oregon’s most popular outdoor activities (just behind gardening).  So what would be more natural than to gather wildlife lovers like you for a most unique, stimulating, and fun nature festival?  Come on.  You are invited to join our Fifth Annual

Pacific City BIRDING AND BLUES FESTIVAL 2008.

LEARN, EXPERIENCE, AND CELEBRATE LIFE

     For three days discover secrets about the intriguing bird life and wildlife along our spectacular Oregon coast.   There will be morning guided field trips and interactive daytime seminars.  Then, each evening after an ocean sunset, try some fine restaurant fare, check out the art galleries, and warm your soul with blues in the night.  Expect dancing and concerts both Friday and Saturday night plus music around town.
     The festival will occur the weekend of Friday, February 22, Saturday February 23 and Sunday, February 24th 2008 in Pacific City.  February sits at the front door of the migratory season when birders ready themselves for the wildlife’s seasonal awakening.   The weather is starting to include many spring-like days and the birds are become more lively.

New additions - Nestucca River Boat Tours & Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge

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      Twenty miles north of Lincoln City, at Pacific City, begins Three Capes Drive (we have two tours each day).  It is a scenic route that runs along the ocean starting running from Pacific City north 22 miles to Tillamook.  It includes Cape Kiwanda, Cape Lookout, and Cape Meares.   Birders have discovered that Pacific City is surrounded by diverse habitats: ocean shore, marine headlands, coastal rocks and islands, bays, rivers, wetlands, dunes, coastal rainforests, and farmland.  Traveling north on the scenic route you will first find the Nestucca River and wildlife refuge, then the Sandlake estuary, Whalen Island, Cape Lookout State Park, Netarts Bay, Oceanside, Three Arch Rocks, Cape Meares, Bay Ocean Spit, and Tillamook Bay.   Pacific City boasts of Haystack Rock, home to the roosting Semedi Island Cackling Goose and the shy Tufted Puffin.  Binoculars are a necessity in this entire Three Capes region as each turn brings new wildlife surprises.
     Proceeds from this annual event are used by the Pacific City Birding and Blues Foundation to develop wildlife education, brochures, maps, trails and interpretive signs for this wonderful stretch of the Oregon coast. Check out the two large wildlife interpretive panels erected on our Cape Kiwanda kiosk near the Pelican Pub! (A gift to the community from the Birding and Blues Foundation, the Tillamook PUD, and with the cooperation of the Pacific City/Nestucca Valley Chamber of Commerce.)