Learn all about birds at BLM event

The third annual Migratory Bird Day at the Bureau of Land Management's Blackwell Island Recreation Area will take place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 9.

All ages are invited to this free, family-friendly outdoor event hosted by the BLM Coeur d'Alene District in partnership with the Coeur d'Alene Audubon Society.

The Migratory Bird Day event is filled with a variety of activities including feather painting, creating pine cone feeders, a bird song DJ station, a scavenger hunt and guided bird walk. Attendees can get "banded" and make bird projects to take home.

New this year is a birds of prey and falconry station with owl pellets to dissect and live raptors.

Coeur d'Alene Audubon volunteers and BLM staff will be on site throughout the event to help provide information about the perils and wonders of bird migration; which bird songs you are most likely to hear in the northern Idaho area; how to understand bird habitats and how to create them and more.

BLM's Blackwell Island Recreation Area is located just south of Coeur d'Alene, just off the Highway 95 bridge. Look for the sign and come join us!

For more information please contact BLM Wildlife Biologist Carrie Hugo at (208) 769-5048.