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Be a Sponsor January 4, 2005 Contact: Myrna Hayes, Festival Coordinator (Prior to event electric launch trips on 707.557.9816,cell 707.319.1886 the Napa River or a visit to “Falcon’s Court” can be scheduled for press) Email: [email protected] Website: www.sfbayflywayfestival.com Television Assignment Editors: raw footage and a 30 second PSA available FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 9th Annual San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival Migration Celebration Featuring “Falcon’s Court” birds of prey show -- falcons, hawks, and owls The 9th Annual San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival will take place Friday through Sunday, January 21-23, 2005 on Mare Island in Vallejo, California. The San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival celebrates the annual migration along the Pacific Flyway of hawks, shorebirds, ducks and geese and even monarch butterflies. The Festival makes its headquarters on the historical former Mare Island Naval Shipyard–founded in 1854. The FREE, family-oriented event features 37 guided hikes, canoe and riverboat trips, birding outings and wetland walks throughout the Bay Area. An additional 16 walks on Mare Island, range from scouting for mushrooms, a popular walk through the historic shipyard, wetland and birding walks, to tours of the Tiffany glass adorned, St. Peter’s Chapel. The highlight of the Flyway Festival is the Family Wildlife Exploration and Birding Expo held at Building 897 on Mare Island, Saturday, January 22, 9am- 4pm and Sunday, January 23, 9am-3pm. Over 50 exhibitors from Bay Area environmental, recreational, historical and cultural organizations and agencies offer interactive exhibits, activities for all ages and information about the Bay Area’s wild world. The Birding Expo is held indoors and includes slide shows, a fine art exhibition, birding equipment, supplies and nature gifts for purchase. Some of the new Festival exhibitors are the California Waterfowl Association and Don Freundt Photography, based in Marin County. The only 3-day birding festival in San Francisco Bay, the popular mid winter event drew an estimated 7,000 people last January. It celebrates the return of (more) over one million shorebirds and hundreds of thousands of waterfowl which migrate through or winter in San Francisco Bay. Call 707-649-WING(9464) or 707-557-9816 for a detailed Festival brochure available by mail after January 10th or visit our website: www.sfbayflywayfestival.com Swarovski Optik makes it possible for Bay Area non-profits, Native Bird Connections and Falcon’s Court(www.falconscourt.org) to show wild birds, answer questions and give raptor information throughout the Festival Expo. Native Bird Connections is based in Martinez; their program is entitled Running with the Big Birds by Jenny Papka, Curator and Marilyn Ellis, Wildlife Educator(see photo of Jenny and a Great Horned Owl at the 2004 Festival). Falcon’s Court has recently moved its operations from southern California and now makes its home on Mare Island. Their program has thrilled Renaissance and Dickens Faire visitors. Digital image presentations range from a talk on water quality and watershed health clues by Todd Adams, Friends of the Napa River to a presentation by Eileen McLaughlin of Wildlife Stewards, about the Restoration of the South Bay Salt Ponds - the largest tidal wetland restoration project on the West Coast. Expo activities include drawing classes, Mucky Marsh Music–campfire style songs for kids, beginning birding ID classes, self-guided wetland walks, visits by the National Wildlife Refuge System Blue Goose mascot (see photo), Sierra Club led hikes and a fine art exhibition. New for the Festival this year is a Saturday evening program of entertainment beginning at 6:30pm, with a live bird show by Mare Island based, Falcon’s Court and a poetry reading, "The Kingfisher", by Stephen Ingraham, who lives in Massachusetts and represents Zeiss Sports Optics, followed by a 2-hour concert with a local Bay Area grown blue-grass band–Chojo Jaques and Friends(see bio and press photo). The Flyway Festival–a project of San Francisco based non-profit, Arc Ecology–is sponsored by close to 50 Bay Area businesses, agencies and non-profit organizations, including the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Coastal Program, the Northern California Environmental Grassroots Fund, Weston Solutions, Inc., Lennar Mare Island, AAA of Northern California, The Strong Foundation, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service–San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Union Bank of California, CH2MHill, Swarovski Optik of North America, the Napa-Solano, Marin, Madrone and Mt. Diablo Audubon Society chapters, Sierra Club-Solano & Napa Groups, Vallejo Sanitation and Flood Control District and Save the Bay with other local Bay Area non-profit organizations, agencies and environmental groups and businesses. Pg 2 (more) The timing of the annual January Festival is when migrating birds are most abundant at the Bay Area’s National Wildlife Refuges, California Department of Fish and Game’s Wildlife Areas and other public and private wildlife conservation sites. The Festival provides a greater awareness of and public access to the San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge, comprised of over 13,000 acres spanning Sonoma, Napa and Solano Counties. The Flyway Festival is headquartered on Mare Island in Vallejo, situated at the confluence of the Carquinez Strait, the mouth of the Napa River and the shores of San Pablo Bay, the largest Bay in the San Francisco Bay Estuary. The Flyway Festival takes advantage of Vallejo’s strategic location as the gateway to the five-county wetland and wildlands rich region of more than 50,000 acres of former tidal marsh of the San Pablo Bay delta and thousands more in the Suisun Marsh. The Flyway Festival is an example of the popularity of nature and heritage based tourism, a tourism industry flourishing in many former industrial and military based communities with rich historic resources and ample open space. According to the National Survey on Recreation and the Environment, more than 71 million Americans -- one in four -- watch birds, making bird-watching the fastest-growing outdoor activity in North America. Visits by Americans to nature centers, refuges, wildlife viewing areas and associated programs like birding festivals, contribute substantial revenue to host communities through the purchase of fuel, equipment, lodging and meals. According to the 1996 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife -Associated Recreation conducted by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census and the U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Americans spent $29.2 billion on activities involving watching and enjoying birds. Flyway Festival Travel Directions Bus and BART Vallejo Express BARTLink provides Saturday bus service every 30 minutes between the El Cerrito Del Norte BART station and Vallejo from​​​ 6:32am to 8:05pm. At the York and Marin terminal, transfer (free) to the #5 Redwood bus to the Mare Island main gate. The buses are equipped with bike racks. Adult fare is $3.50 each way. Casual carpools can transport folks from the Mare Island entrance to the Festival site. Return Express BARTLink service from Vallejo’s York and Marin terminal to the El Cerrito Del Norte station leaves every 30 minutes 6:00am to 7:30pm, then hourly at 8:30pm, 9:30pm and finally, at 10:30pm. For additional bus information, call 800-640-2877 M-F 8am-5:30pm or visit the website at www.vallejotransit.com. Ferry The first direct departure from the San Francisco Ferry Building to Vallejo on weekends is an Express Vallejo Transit bus! It departs from the San Francisco Ferry Building to Vallejo at 9:00am, Pg 3 (more) arriving at the Vallejo Ferry Terminal at approximately 9:55am. The first Vallejo Ferry departs the San Francisco Ferry Building to Vallejo at 10am, arriving in Vallejo at 11:25am. Return to San Francisco by ferry or regular BARTLink service to the El Cerrito Del Norte BART station using the convenient Baylink Daypass good on the Vallejo ferry, local Vallejo buses and the BARTLink 80 service to the El Cerrito Del Norte BART station. Afternoon departures to San Francisco from Vallejo by ferry are 4:30pm and 6:40pm. Two additional departures to the San Francisco Ferry Building from the Vallejo Ferry terminal by express bus service are at 7:40pm and 9:35pm. The ferry is equipped with bike racks. Roundtrip fares for one-way tickets purchased onboard the boat and upgraded at the Vallejo Ferry Terminal are $15 for adults, $9.50 seniors (65+), Juniors (6-12) and disabled. Children age 5 and under, ride free. Call 707-557-9816 or 707-649-9464 to pre-arrange for transportation assistance in reaching the Festival site from the ferry or for a return ride to the ferry terminal. For additional ferry information call 877-64FERRY or visit the website at www.baylinkferry.com. Taxi Service Ferry or bus passengers wishing taxi service the 2-mile distance from the Vallejo Ferry building to the Festival may request that the ferry captain or bus driver call ahead for taxi service or call 707-643-3333 or 707-642-4421 by cell phone or upon arrival at the Vallejo Ferry Terminal. Auto access to Building 897 on Mare Island From I-80 east or westbound, exit on Tennessee St., continue west to the entrance to Mare Island. Proceed straight ahead to Azuar Dr. Turn right, follow the railroad tracks approximately one block, turn right to Building 897. From Napa and Sonoma Travel south on Highway 29 to Tennessee St., turn right and follow directions above. From Contra Costa County Cross the Benicia-Martinez Bridge on I-680. Take I-780 west toward Benicia and Vallejo. Continue on I-780 for approximately 7 miles. Exit at I-80 east. Continue on I-80 toward Sacramento. Exit on Tennessee St.
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