St. Marks NWR hosts Family Events for National Wildlife Refuge Week

{sidebar id=3}Fall is in the air and now is a great time to get outdoors and explore the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge!  The Refuge will be fee free from Saturday, October 11 – Saturday October 18 to enjoy National Wildlife Refuge Week.  During that time, there will be two “family-friendly events” to enjoy, for kids of all ages. 

The first activity is Family Discovery Day on Saturday, Oct. 11 from 10 am – 4 pm.  The refuge staff will be handing out a scavenger hunt map to all interested visitors, which will include the traditional instructions for the hunt as well as one for GPS and digital camera users.  The hunt will take visitors all up and down the Lighthouse Rd. (Co. Rd. 59 south).  Folks who complete the entire hunt will receive a goody bag.

On Sunday, October 12, from 7 am – 2 pm, the refuge will be holding its first ever “Big Sit!”  This bird watching activity was initiated by the New Haven (CT) Bird Club in 1992 and consists of creating an imaginary circle, 17 feet in diameter, and recording bird sightings during a 24-hour period.  Today, this is an annual, international event and there are over 200 circles registered with Bird Watcher’s Digest, the Big Sit! host, and more than 750 species of birds have been recorded during the Sit.  Our circle will be down at the lighthouse observation deck and anyone is welcome to join us for an hour or more. 

Please call 850/925-6121 to register and bring your binoculars if you have them!

(Photo courtesy of Mary Katherine Westmark) 

This information originally published on October 1, 2008.

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