28th Annual San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival
Join us for the 28th annual San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival!
Birds and people will flock to Mare Island in Vallejo, California, to celebrate what has become a special annual ritual each winter: the San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival. The three-day event celebrates the return of over one million shorebirds and hundreds of thousands of ducks, geese, hawks, and songbirds that migrate through or winter in the SF Bay Area.
Our Flyway Festival is held at the peak of migration and that means the dead of winter in San Francisco Bay. So, rest assured, our festival will take place rain or shine!
Daily Schedule:
Friday, Feb. 10
8am: Opening Greeting and Native American Prayer to bless the sacred Native lands and waters on which our Flyway Festival takes place.
5pm – 7pm: Festival Opening Reception, Wildlife Expo Headquarters, Building 34, 1024 Nimitz Ave. Mare Island. We certainly expect a host of dignitaries and Festival Sponsors, including our Host Sponsor, MARE ISLAND CO. and other friends and supporters, such as Vallejo Mayor Robert McConnell
Saturday, Feb. 11
9:30am: Opening Greeting and Native American Prayer
Come in from the great outdoors to our WILDLIFE EXPO Saturday, 9:30am to 4:00pm and Sunday, 9:30am to 3:00pm to enjoy exhibitors, presenters, and art, and other vendors.
Your purchase of art and your bids in our silent auction, raffle ticket purchases and donations all help keep our Festival wild and free. You may make an online donation on our Crowd-Funding site this year.
Click DONATE or VISIT: https://gofund.me/ce3695ba
9:30am – 4:00pm: Bay Area Wetlands to Ridgetops Fine Art Exhibit - Art Exhibition, Building 34, Wildlife Expo
10:00am - 11:15am: Birding 101: Optics and I.D. Basics Presentation at the Wildlife Stage
11:30am-12:30pm: Raptors Up Close with Native Bird Connections Presenter, Jenny Papka (Repeats Sunday 11:30am-12:30pm)
1:00pm-2:00pm: Words as Pictures – Poetry Reading and Photo Show with Presenter: Jim Lewis, Poet and Photographer
1:30pm-2:15pm: What’s Not to Love About Bats? with Presenter: Corky Quirk, Executive Director NorCal Bats with live, non-releasable, native bats at the Wildlife Stage (Repeats Sunday 1:00pm-2:00pm at the Norcal Bats Booth)
2:30pm-3:30pm: Learn about the History of the Mare Island Naval Hospital. Presentation by Dr. Tom Snyder, retired Navy surgeon and founder/past executive director of the Society for the History of Navy Medicine (Repeats Sunday 10:00am-11:15am)
3pm-4pm: Silent Auction closes and Raffle is called
Sunday, Feb. 12
9:30am: Opening Greeting and Native American Prayer
10am-11:15am: Learn about the History of the Mare Island Naval Hospital. Presentation by Dr. Tom Snyder, retired Navy surgeon and founder/past executive director of the Society for the History of Navy Medicine
11:30am-12:30pm: Raptors Up Close with Native Bird Connections Presenter, Jenny Papka
1:00pm-2:00pm: What’s Not to Love About Bats? with Presenter: Corky Quirk, Executive Director NorCal Bats with live, non-releasable, native bats at the Wildlife Stage
2:00pm-3:00pm: Silent Auction closes and Raffle is called
Contact
Mare Island Heritage Trust
707-249-9633
myrnahayes@mac.com (Myrna Hayes)
Location
Mare Island
167 O’Hara Ct. at Azuar Ave.
Vallejo, CA