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Birding Festivals
Four days on a prairie wild with wetlands and wavy, open meadows. Here is your chance to visit some of the world's most remote birding hotspots. Join your peers, bring your lists and be ready for four full days of guided tours, hands-on workshops, wonderful people, distinctive culture and wild country. Don't miss the next Pothole & Prairie Birding Festival: June 13th
through the 17th 2018 in Carrington, North Dakota!
Please go to www.birdingdrives.com for details and registration form for the 14th Annual festival. Dates: June 8-12, 2016. See photos of the 2012 festival on the above website.
To see photos of the 2011 and 2012 festivals, please click on 'Photo Gallery' above.
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2012 Potholes & Prairie Festival
The 2012 festival involved participants from 25 states from the east coast to the west coast, and from the deep south to the far north. Highlights of the five day event included sightings of 143 different bird species, with almost all participants noting at least one life bird and others ranging up to 27 life birds. Some of these life birds included the Baird's and LeConte sparrows and gray partridge. Participants voiced their enjoyment of the wonderful birding, wide-open spaces and beauty of North Dakota. They especially enjoyed seeing birds in their full breeding plummage and their mating rituals.
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This group is studying the burrowing owl before they set off on the Birds & Bison Tour.
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Potholes and Prairie Birding Festival
The photos below are from the 2007 and 2008 Potholes and Prairie Festival.
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| Ann & Ernie Hoffert (owners of Pipestem Creek) having a great day during the festival. |
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Ann and Ernie on a great day during the festival.
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Bill Thompson, Julie Zickefoose, and Ernie Hoffert on the coteau.
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This bobolink is singing with the dawn chorus.
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The loudest and earliest singer was the western kingbird. He started at about 4am.
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The birds around the property sure appreciated the business. This is a brown thrasher nest tucked into some honeysuckle right outside the window of the assembly room.
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The birding festival attendees enjoying a social hour at the Putnam House in Carrington, North Dakota.
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Photo by Lynn E. Arrowsmith.
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Putnam House staircase.
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The BDD mascot, Larry Longspur, holding Liam the son of Bill Thompson, III and Julie Zickafoose.
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Birding on the Coteau. Buffalo in the background.
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Buffalo on the Coteau.
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Wilderness Walk - looking for a variety of birds.
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