Verde Valley Birding and Nature Festival: Wings to Wine Field Trip

We’ll begin at Cornville’s Windmill Park, on the banks of Oak Creek. We’ll look for tanagers, blackbirds, orioles, sparrows, and flycatchers in the adjacent pastures, and swallows over the creek. We’ll proceed then to Page Springs Cellars winery, whose fabulous property is also on the banks of Oak Creek. There we will hope to see the common black-hawk, perhaps a bald eagle, herons of all descriptions, tanagers, buntings and probably other riparian species. Before we depart we will lunch on some excellent artisan pizzas prepared by the winery’s kitchen, and you’ll have the option to taste some of the wines (not included in trip cost) if you are so inclined. Meal included; wine tasting: $10. Rating: 3 Transportation: Vans Meal: Lunch at Page Springs Cellars Cost: $105       Part of the Verde Valley Birding and Nature Festival Join us 100 miles North of Phoenix in North Central Arizona’s Verde Valley for the Verde Valley Birding and Nature Festival. Experience birding during the peak Spring migration season at Dead Horse Ranch State Park on the banks of the Verde River. Close proximity to the Verde, Oak Creek, Sycamore Creek, and other perennial waters offers a wide selection of guided tours, hikes, and workshops in one of Arizona’s richest birding habitats. Our experienced guides have extensive knowledge of birds and the unique habitat that makes this region special. The festival, presented each April by Friends of the Verde River, is a purpose-driven community benefit organization and 501© 3 non-profit working to preserve one of the last perennial flowing rivers in the American Southwest. Festival site is at Dead Horse Ranch State Park.