The Indiana Audubon Hummingbird
Migration Celebration
August 10, 2019
9am – 4pm
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The Indiana Audubon Hummingbird Migration Celebration
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AUGUST 10, 2019
is a festival for the tiny gem, the Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Multiple sponsors and partners provide an opportunity for all to learn about these amazing little birds, how to attract them, and how to keep them coming year after year. Activities include hummingbird banding demonstrations to view hummingbirds up close, guided nature walks, a native plant sale, programs about birds and other pollinators, kid’s activities, vendor booths, live music, and more.
Days
Hours
Minutes
Seconds
Schedule of Events
BIRD BANDING
9:30am-11:30am
Hummingbird Banding
Amy Wilms
12:00pm – 1:30pm
Songbird Banding
Brad Bumgardner
1:30pm-3:30pm
Hummingbird Banding
Amy Wilms
PRESENTATIONS IN BROOKS HALL
9:30am
The Anatomy of Birds – Karen Henman
11:30am
Bird Town Indiana
1:00pm
Backyard Birds of Indiana – Brad Bumgardner
3:00pm
Bats of Indiana – Ryan Slack
10:30am
Bird Brains! – Jack Berninger
12:00pm
Hummingbirds 101 – Carl & Amy Wilms
04:00pm
Hummingbirds 101 – Carl & Amy Wilms
AMPITHEATER PROGRAMS
9:30am
Live Birds of Prey Take Flight!
11:30am
Live Birds of Prey Take Flight
LOWER MARKLE
10:30am
Turtle Time!
1:30pm
Turtle Time!
2:00pm
Wetland Safari
LARGE SHELTER ACTIVITIES
All Day!
Children Activities all day!
LARGE SHELTER HIKES
9:30am
Morning Birdwalk
10:00am
Beekeeping 101
11:00am
Butterflies Alive!
12:00pm
Nature Walk
2:30pm
Butterflies Alive!
2:30pm
Planting Native – Talk to Dawn at the Native Plant Sale!
UPPER MARKLE BARN
10:30am – on!
The Music from THE YEARS! The Lucky Devils will be once again part of that magical, fluid, collaborative, wonderfulness that just IS; we’ll be joining Cory Glisson and Brentney Campbell‘s PATCHWORK SUNSHINE, and the amazing, Craig Wynne to re-become, THE YEARS, at Mary Gray Bird Sanctuary for the inaugural Hummingbird Migration Celebration!
12:00pm
Connersville Art
HUMMINGBIRD FRIENDLY NATIVE PLANT SALE
FOR SALE BY THE SMALL SHELTER – WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!
- Common Milkweed
- Butterfly Milkweed
- Downy Mint
- White Turtlehead
- Clover Prairie
- Purple Coneflower
- Geranium Wild
- Sunflower FALSE
- Spiked Blazingstar
- Flower Cardinal
- Lobelia Blue
- Bergamot Wild
- Ladder Jacob’s
- Narrow Mint
- Virginia Mint
- Yellow Coneflower
- Showy Susan
- Lyre-leaved Sage
- Catchfly Royal
- Pink Fire
- Silphium Rosinweed
- Grass Blue-eyed
- Blue-stemmed Goldenrod
- Zig-zag Goldenrod
- Poppy Celandine
- Blue Aster
- Heath Aster
- Smooth Aster
- Silphium Rosinweed
- Grass Blue-eyed
- Blue-stemmed Goldenrod
- Zig-zag Goldenrod
- Poppy Celandine
- Blue Aster
- Heath Aster
- Smooth Aster
Location
Mary Gray Bird Sanctuary
3499 S Bird Sanctuary Road
Connersville, IN 47331
Phone: 765-827-5109
Registration
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION
Adults: $10 each
Child (17 and under): Free
Regular Event Cost
(After August 8, 2018)
Adults – $15 each
Child (17 and under): Free
FESTIVAL SPONSORS
City of Connersville, Mayor Harold Gordon
Amos Butler Audubon Society
Murphy's Gas Company
Yaryan Eye Care Center
Showalter Blackwell Long Funeral Home
FIRST MERCHANTS BANK
