Join Rural Action, Camp Oty’Okwa, and the Athens Area Birders for our family-friendly Birds in the Hills Festival May 8-10 at Eclipse Company Store in The Plains, Ohio. This affordable three-day festival will feature family-friendly activities as well as tours to local birding hotspots. We welcome anyone with even a remote interest in birds and the outdoors, including those who have never picked up a pair of binoculars.

Birds in the Hills Festival will feature birding by kayak with Touch the Earth Adventures, and all-day birding tour of the Little Cities of Black Diamonds region, tours of the local breeding population of Prothonotary Warblers, a birding by bicycle tour, and hike at United Plant Savers searching for birds and spring wildflowers. Participants can expect to see and hear a plethora of migratory songbirds.

We will have family-friendly activities, art for sale, live music, and keynote presentations at Eclipse throughout the weekend. The base admission fee is $10 and field trips will be on an ala carte basis. Online registration will be ready here by mid-March. If you are a vendor interested in setting up shop at the festival, please email Madison Donohue at madison@ruralaction.org.