This annual event promises a lot of activities and fun. It begins at the Refuge Visitor Center on Hill Road in Tule Lake and looks like it could run most of the day with guided bus tours, mist netting and banding, airboat rides, morning bird walks, live blues music and even food.

We have been to this refuge, which is located on Highway 161 right on the Oregon border. To reach it one drives north on Highway 97 from Weed, through Macdoel and turn east on 161 just a few miles beyond Dorris. It took us about 1-1/2 hours from Lake Shastina.

If you don't have a county map call me at 530-938-0385 and I will mail you one.

The article in the paper recommends calling 530-667-2231 for more info and their website is helpful too: www.fws.gov/klamathbasinrefuges.