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JANUARY

Morro Bay Winter Birding Festival
Morro Bay - CA

Annual Snow Goose Festival
Chico & Red Bluff - CA

FEBRUARY

BirdSource Great Backyard Bird Count
Your backyard - any state

Friday through Sunday - President's Day Weekend

Winter Wings Festival
Klamath Falls, Oregon

MARCH

SAN DIEGO BIRD FESTIVAL
San Diego - CA

The Aleutian Goose Festival
Crescent City - CA

APRIL

Godwit Days Spring Migration Bird Festival
Arcata - CA

HERON FESTIVAL & WILDFLOWER BRUNCH
Kelseyville - CA

MAY

Kern VALLEY Spring Nature Festival
Weldon - CA

Spring Wings Bird Festival
Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge Complex, Fallon, Nevada

Walk on the Wildside

Freeport, CA
Stone Lakes National Wildlife Refuge - Beach Lake Preserve

NAS Spring BirdAThon (800) 647-BIRD, EMAIL

International Migratory Bird Day

second Saturday in May

JUNE

Mono Basin Bird Chautauqua 
Lee Vining - CA       

JULY

AUGUST

Annual Kern River Valley Hummingbird Celebration
Audubon Kern River Preserve, Weldon - CA

SEPTEMBER

Monterey Bay Birding Festival

Watsonville - CA

Kern Valley Fall Nature & Vulture Festival
Audubon Kern River Preserve, Weldon - CA

OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

Sandhill Crane Festival

Lodi - CA,

Central Valley Birding Symposium

Stockton - CA

DECEMBER

Christmas Bird Count - December 14 - January 5 scheduled CBC's

Kern River Christmas Bird Counts

Butterbredt CBC - first Saturday of the count period - Compiler Chuck Bragg. Centered around the Kelso Valley area and includes Butterbredt Spring and Audubon's Kelso Creek Sanctuary.

Kern River Valley CBC - Compiler: Alison Sheehey. The Kern River Valley Christmas Bird Count circle includes all of Isabella Reservoir, the Greenhorn Mountains from Greenhorn Summit south to Evans Flat, Kernville north to include the Fish Hatchery, and both sides of Sierra Way from Kernville to the Sierra Way Bridge over the South Fork Kern River.

South Fork Valley CBC  - Compiler: Denise LaBerteaux  The South Fork Valley Christmas Bird Count circle includes all of the South Fork Kern River riparian habitat from just east of Sierra Way to the Bloomfield Ranch, parts of the Piute and Scodie Mtns., several miles down Kelso Valley Road, all of the towns of Weldon and Onyx, all of Fay Ranch Road, all of the Canebrake settlement out to just below Walker Pass, and part of the Kern Plateau.