Dean Hale Woodpecker Festival – Sisters, Oregon

This popular festival is back this year after the Covid hiatus.  In its tenth year, the Dean Hale Woodpecker Festival provides opportunites to see Oregon high-desert birds we never see in Western Washington.

Registration opened in April.

This year, participants have a choice of fourteen guided tours in search of 11 different woodpecker species and 200 other birds that make central Oregon a birding hot spot.

East Cascades Audubon Society (ECAS) sponsors the Dean Hale Woodpecker Festival, which offers a fun, friendly, casual atmosphere that is all about the birds.  The trips are affordable, limited in size and guided by two local volunteers.  The proceeds support ECAS education and conservation projects. Proof of Covid 19 vaccination and masking up in the carpools is required.

Tour details, registration and more information are at  http://www.ecaudubon.org/dean-hale-woodpecker-festival .  Questions can be directed to Gordon Wetzel at DHWF2022@nullgmail.com.