PARKS & RECREATION

HALYBURTON PARK
Nature Holiday Craft Creations
Sat 12/19 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Ages: 3/up Cost: $5
Come on out and join park naturalists in all the nature
festivities building different nature crafts such as bird
feeders out of a pine cone, and much, much more. Each
child will have the chance to create something awesome
at each station. All creations are yours to keep.
SCOUTS
Webelos Naturalist Badge
Sat 9/19 9:30-11 a.m.
Cost: $3/participant
Webelos Forester Badge
Sat 11/9 9:30-11 a.m.
Cost: $3/participant
Snake and Turtle Feeding
Wed 9/2, 10/7, 11/4, 12/2 4-4:30 p.m. Cost: $1
Enjoy a brief presentation about the live animals on
display in the Events Center and then watch them feed.
At least one snake and a turtle will be fed during the
demonstration.
Insect Collecting and Pinning
Sat 10/3 12-2 p.m. or Sat 10/10 11a.m.-1 p.m.
Ages: 6/up Cost: $10
Come learn how to collect, pin, and preserve insects. The
first day we will go out in the park and collect our insects,
and then the next week we will pin them, do general
identification, and create a bug collect to take home!
Fire in the Pines Festival
Sat 10/17 11 a.m.-3 pm.
Celebrate the importance of fire in the longleaf pine
ecosystem with games, food, live music, animals,
interactive educational activities, hay rides, raffles and face
painting. The highlight of the festival is a demonstration
controlled burn weather permitting to give festival goers
the opportunity to see how burns are conducted and
learn more about their importance to the ecosystem.
Fire equipment will be on display and Smoky Bear is
scheduled to be a special guest.
ADULT PROGRAMS
Fall Migratory Birds Workshop
Tue 9/22 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. Cost: $10
Coastal North Carolina is home to many species of birds,
including many species that migrate through this area
on their way back to their wintering grounds further
south. Join Mike Campbell with the NC Wildlife Resource
Commission and Andy Fairbanks with Halyburton Park
to explore the various habitats in the Wilmington, Carolina
Beach and Ft. Fisher areas to identify warblers, raptors,
waders, shorebirds and many other species. We will
meet at the park at 8 a.m.
NC BIRDING TRAIL HIKES
We will explore a different site along the NC Birding Trail
in the Coastal Plain. Each hike will be approximately 2
miles. Transportation from Halyburton Park is included.
Cost: $10
Ft. Fisher - Thu 9/17 7 a.m.-12 p.m.
Sunset Beach - Thu 10/15 7 a.m.-3p.m.
Mason Inlet/Wrightsville Beach -Thu 11/19 8 a.m.-12p.m.
Greenfield Lake -Thu 12/17 8 a.m.-12 p.m.
Pocosin Lakes/Lake Mattamuskeet NWR Waterfowl and
Black Bear Adventure
Fri-Sat 11/13 to 11/14 8a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $100
We will visit Lake Mattamuskeet NWR, home to thousands
of Tundra Swan and Snow Geese in the winter, to
observe a variety of migratory waterfowl on Friday. We
will stay overnight at the Eastern 4-H center in Columbia,
N.C. Friday night a 1.5 hour presentation will provide
an overview of Eastern N.C. wildlife with a focus on
Black Bears. Pocosin Lakes is home to two endangered
species, the red wolf and the red-cockaded woodpecker,
and one of the largest populations of American black
bears in North America. On Saturday we will depart before
sunrise for Pocosin Lakes to observe Black Bears
and potentially other wildlife and birds.
REGISTER ONLINE @
www.halyburtonpark.com or call
341.0075 to register.
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