New Guest Blog- Galt Winter Bird Festival fast approaching

By Liz Aguire, Galt City Clerk

Birds add beauty to our community year-round, but their most prominent role happens during the winter months.  To celebrate our feathered friends, we are planning the sixth annual Galt Winter Bird Festival January 26.

Join us to view thousands of migratory birds that call Galt their winter home. Flooded rice fields in the Sacramento Valley provide habitat to 40 percent of all shorebirds wintering in the Central Valley.  PBRO Conservation Science and Audubon California have been working to further enhance California’s rice landscape for shorebirds.  In cooperation with the California Rice Commission and California’s rice growing community, they are developing and testing rice field management practices that have the potential to benefit shorebirds during fall migration and winter.

Join our bus tours which will include: morning & sunset photo tours, a children’s tour, a dawn photo-op tour and a wildlife tour of the Cosumnes River Preserve. Festival guests will also enjoy good food, WILD THINGS Wild Animal Performances, a Youth Art Gallery and free children’s art and crafts.  Bird photographer, Art Morris will be the keynote speaker Friday night, January 25.  Tours require pre-registration. Space is limited. Call now 209-366-7115.

Here’s a link to more information on the festival.

We hope to see you there!