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20th Anniversary Year Wings Over Willcox January 16 - 20 2013 Arizona’s Mecca for wintering Sandhill Cranes, Raptors & Sparrows 15-20 years: Bob Coder ~ Diane Drobka ~ Steve Marlatt ~ Howard Bethel ~ Homer Hansen ~ Tom Whetten 10-15 years: Phyllis Cohorn ~Tony Cohorn ~ Casey Dennis ~ Bill Grossi ~ Larry Fellows Don Hammer ~ Suzanne Moody ~ Jim Riggs 5-10 years: Connie Bonner ~ Heidi Blasius ~ John Bacorn ~ Anne Casey ~ Kara Downey ~ Gloria Hurtado Henry Hurtado ~ Carol Jelinek ~ Jack Light ~ Alan Loy ~ Vivian MacKinnon ~ Marty Martin Gary Moe ~ Barb Moe ~ Kathy Moreno ~ Jim Paterson ~ Kathy Smith Peta-Anne Tenney ~ Erika Wilson “Thank you all for 20 Years of WOW!” 1-5 years: Cindy Traylor ~ Revonda Laws ~ Jon Samuelson ~ Charmayne Samuelson ~ John Cropper Linda Drew ~ Mark Hart ~ Cathy Collins ~ La Donna Burgess ~ Denzil Farbo ~ Carol Wien Bret Allard ~ Kristin Sanderson ~ Duane Aubuchon ~ Brian Carey ~ John Holcomb Carol Dickson ~ Wayne Crane ~ Kim McReynolds “The above members of the festival committee have put in time, effort and energy throughout the year to help make the festival the wonderful event that it is today. Thanks to each and every one of you.” Honored to host the Wings Over Willcox Guest Speaker Experience AZ legend in the historic DOS CABEZAS SPIRIT AND NATURE RETREAT BED & BREAKFAST. Located 15 minutes south of Willcox and just 20 minutes to the scenic hiking trails and beauty of the CHIRICAHUA NATIONAL MONUMENT and Wonderland of Rocks. Enjoy the fastest-growing area in southern AZ for wineries, wine-tasting rooms, and increasingly popular pick-your-own fruit and nut orchards and produce farms. Relish in the perfect weather all year round at 5200’ elevation - and amazing mountain views, an abun- dant wildlife population of deer, javelina, wild birds, ringtail cats, bobcats, and quail, and the most brilliant stars you’ve ever seen! DOS CABEZAS SPIRIT AND NATURE RETREAT BED & BREAKFAST www.doscabezasretreat.com * email: [email protected] * 520-384-6474 WINGS OVER WILLCOX - 3 Honored to host the Wings Over Willcox Guest Speaker Space Limited Experience AZ legend in the historic DOS CABEZAS SPIRIT AND NATURE RETREAT BED & BREAKFAST. Located 15 minutes south Register Now! of Willcox and just 20 minutes to the scenic hiking trails and beauty of the CHIRICAHUA NATIONAL MONUMENT and Wonderland of Rocks. Enjoy the fastest-growing area in southern AZ for wineries, wine-tasting rooms, and increasingly popular pick-your-own fruit and nut orchards and produce farms. Relish in the perfect weather all year round at 5200’ elevation - and amazing mountain views, an abun- dant wildlife population of deer, javelina, wild birds, ringtail cats, bobcats, and quail, and the most brilliant stars you’ve ever seen! DOS CABEZAS SPIRIT AND NATURE RETREAT BED & BREAKFAST www.doscabezasretreat.com * email: [email protected] * 520-384-6474 4 - WINGS OVER WILLCOX The Willcox City Council Welcomes you to our community. The Wings Over Willcox Committee and its many volunteers have worked hard for this event and we support and thank them for their efforts Please enjoy your stay and our excellent birdlife City of Willcox City Hall - 520-384-4271 101 S. Railroad Ave., Willcox, AZ 85643 www.willcoxcity.org Welcome to Big Tex BBQ! We invite you to enjoy the tastiest BBQ on the planet! Don’t believe us? Come and try our tangy, secret-recipe barbeque sauce, mesquite smoked and slow-cooked brisket, rib platter and chicken... We’ll win you over in no time! Mesquite Smoked... Ribs • Chicken • Brisket • and the Best Steaks in Town SPECIALS: Tuesday - Chicken Fried Steak • Friday - Southern Fried Catfish • Saturday - Baby-back Ribs You can enjoy a Beer or Our Meeting Call us to Wine with your meal! Room holds 80! Cater Your Event! Monday - Thursday: 11:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. Friday & Saturday: 11:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. 130 E. Maley Street in Historic Downtown Willcox • 520-384-4423 Big Tex BBQ in the Dining Car WINGS OVER WILLCOX - 5 WOW Poetry Contest CONTENTS 2012 First Place Adult Winner Welcome 6 98 + 2 Featured Artist 6 Arizona—I hope I look as good as you General Information 7 When I reach 98 + 2 You once were wild, but so was I and life Scheduling Overview 8 Has tamed me—just like you Keynote Speaker 11 Made you bigger, stronger, greater, true Contests 12 Like the Phoenix from the ashes you are born anew Nature Expo 13 You’ve survived your wounds, your bruises and your pain So now living here we have much to gain Free Seminars 15 Seminar Descriptions 16 You see I’m from a place that’s cold and old Tour Descriptions 19 Not like this State that’s burnished gold With canyons deep and rocks of red and Tour Guide Contact Info 26 Skies so blue I lose my head when Your Tour Leaders & Traveling up the road due north Seminar Speakers 27 And passing caravans of copper loads I pass those cacti nipping at my heels Watching Sandhill Cranes 38 And whisper Saguaro! Where are you? to all who hear Crane Spotting Map 39 As I watch the beautiful desert disappear Lodging & Dining 40 City of Willcox Map 41 Your birthday is the Day of Love so the gods were smiling up above Event Registration & When picking that day for Arizonian’s far and near Souvenir Order Form 43 To celebrate its 100th year Online registration opens September 1. By Patricia Cassidy, Concho, Arizona Register at www.wingsoverwillcox.com. 2012 First Place Middle School Winner For those of you who Mesquite Twirling, dancing, plan in advance! Fun and entrancing These are movements of a mesquite. 2014 - January 15-19th, 2014 Tall and prickly, 2015 - January 14-18th, 2015 2016 - January 13-17th, 2016 Brown and dull 2017 - January 11-15th, 2017 These are the traits of a mesquite. 2018 - January 10-14th, 2018 Wise and old No secrets foretold All the above dates are based on a These are the ways of the mesquite. Wednesday through Sunday festival Young and bold and are placed on the MLK weekend. Slowly dying and cold This is the life of a mesquite. PUBLISHER: Willcox Chamber of Commerce By Yasmin Boone, Willcox, Arizona 1500 N. Circle I Rd., Willcox, AZ 85643. www.willcoxchamber.com 2012 First Place Elementary School Winner PRODUCTION & ADVERTISING: Winged Creature Tenney Photography, Peta-Anne Tenney Sandhill Cranes 520-384-4853 [email protected] White, fantastic Migrating, flying, soaring PRINTING: Wings stretched out. Westpress Winged creature 1663 W. Grant Rd., Tucson 85745-1433 520-624-4939 • fax 520-624-2715 By Wyatt Kunz, Willcox, Arizona www.westpress.com 6 - WINGS OVER WILLCOX WINGS OVER WILLCOX - 7 Welcome to Wings Over Willcox! On behalf of the City of Willcox, Birders: Welcome to Willcox! Wings Over Willcox Birding and Nature Festival is I would like to welcome everyone The Willcox Chamber of Commerce celebrating our 20th anniversary, and the WOW com- to the 20th annual Wings Over Will- and Agriculture is happy to be a mittee and volunteers are looking forward to celebrat- cox. Some new tours and seminars part of the 20th annual Wings Over ing it with you. Each year WOW gets better and bet- have been added, so please check Willcox Birding and Nature Festi- ter, and the plans for our 20th annual festival promise into these as well as the “treasures” val. This special weekend of bird- another stellar event. that we repeat each year. ing activities is possible because In celebration of our 20th anniversary we are We would also encourage you of the involvement and dedication pleased to welcome our 2013 Keynote Speaker and to visit our museums and other his- of numerous individual and agency featured guide, Kenn Kaufmann, author, artist, natu- toric places of interest on historic volunteers. Their expertise and en- ralist, and conservationist. Kenn is well known for his Railroad Avenue and the surround- thusiasm has grown the event over popular field guides of birds and butterflies and is a ter- ing area. Willcox has much to offer two decades and Wings Over Will- rific speaker as well. We look forward to his presenta- and we hope that you will explore cox has become a premiere “draw” tion “Birding in Outer Space” at our Saturday evening and enjoy our town. for visitors to our part of Cochise banquet. In addition, there are unique opportunities We wish to convey a big thank County. to spend time with Kenn, including an intimate dinner you to all our wonderful volunteers While you’re in town we hope on Friday and a tour on Sunday to spot our wintering who put in a lot of time and effort to you will investigate some of our lo- birds. make Wings Over Willcox the tre- cal history. Stroll down Railroad Av- Our festival is the perfect opportunity to see all mendous success that it has been enue and visit the local shops, wine the winter migrants that visit Arizona and to see other for the past 20 years. Feel free to tasting rooms and museums. Take natural wonders of southeastern Arizona. Capitalize ask questions of our knowledge- a look inside the restored Southern on these opportunities by signing up for tours (includ- able staff and volunteers. They will Pacific Railroad depot and learn ing a new Chiricahua Montane overnight tour, Cochise be happy to assist you and answer more about the City of Willcox and Stronghold & Sunsites Specialties, and an Apache any questions you may have. its unique history. We are pleased Pass Geology tour) and participating in free seminars Thank you all for attending the you are here, and we hope you en- (with diverse subjects such as turtles, jaguars, eBird, 20th anniversary of Wings Over joy your stay.