Sparrowfest February 4, 2011

PREPARE FOR SPARROWMANIA!
Online registration begins Dec 6, 2010
This ever-popular Sparrow Workshop returns to Balcones Canyonlands NWR!
Led by Sparrow Experts Byron Stone, Bill Reiner and Randy Pinkston.
On Saturday February 5, 2011, we will conduct SparrowFest at Balcones Canyonlands NWR northwest of Austin. This is our sixth annual celebration of the embarrassment of Emberizid riches with which central Texas, and BCNWR in particular, are often blessed in winter.
SparrowFest is conducted as a one-day workshop and fundraiser for Friends of Balcones Canyonlands NWR with field trips in the morning and afternoon, lunch and a sparrow slide show at mid-day, and an optional "Sparrow Countdown and Dinner" in the evening after the last field trips. This year, our three field trip leaders (Byron Stone, Bill Reiner and Randy Pinkston) will escort about 35 festival participants divided into three groups morning and afternoon to several different refuge tracts and two different private properties adjacent to the refuge.