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BIRDS – Looking and Learning in the Cooler White Mountains

Based at Rustic Tal-Wi-Wi Lodge in Alpine

Thursday, May 21 – Monday, May 25, 2009 (Memorial Day Weekend)

PHOENIX-AREA (I-17 AND DUNLAP) PICK UP AND RETURN WILL BE AVAILABLE 

On this unique summer birding adventure from Tucson, we’ll travel north to Alpine, Arizona to the rustic and beautiful Tal-Wi-Wi Lodge deep in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest where we will bunk for four nights. Tal-Wi-Wi has a saloon and a very good restaurant on the premises, but no televisions or telephones in rooms (wireless Internet is available). Experienced bird guide and bird educator Kathe Anderson of Scottsdale will lead us on some early extended morning walks on the lodge property and to some nearby White Mountain hot spots, including (depending on time) Becker Lake, Wenima Wildlife Area, Little Colorado River South Fork, and Green’s Peak area. We’ll also try some dusk/night-time owling. Kathe has led over one hundred volunteer bird walks for Boyce Thompson Arboretum, Hassayampa River Preserve, Gilbert Water Ranch, and various Audubon chapters. As a professional guide, she has also led many trips for private clients to birding sites in Arizona, New Mexico, and California. She also teaches a series of interactive birding classes designed for beginning to intermediate birders. This trip will include Kathe’s three basic birding classes, fun interactive learning activities with topics including bird identification, binoculars, and books; seasons and locations; spotting and identifying; and bird behaviors and songs. In the afternoons, you will be free to relax, read a book, or join the Top Tyranno in easy woods walks/strolls near the lodge. One night, we will do dinner at the noted Cafe Beate German restaurant in nearby Nutrioso. Another night, it may be dinner at the famous Molinos family Mexican restaurant in Springerville (meals not included in tour fee). Tour departs on Thursday at 7:00 AM from and returns on Sunday by 6:00 PM to the Tucson International Airport Park & Save remote parking lot on the SE corner of S. Tucson Blvd. and E. Corona Rd. where vehicles can be safely parked for $4 per day. Limited to 8 participants. Chief Guide and Top Tyranno: Stephen H. Buck, PhD.

FEE POLICY: Full payment is due on registration (or when requested). To register, send check (payable to Stephen H. Buck) to Stephen H. Buck, P.O. Box 64986, Tucson, AZ 85728-4986. Your check will not be deposited until it is certain that the tour is a GO. If the tour does not go, your uncashed check will be returned to you. Your check is your receipt for payment. If you cancel out 30 days or more before the tour, you will be charged a $100 administrative fee. If you cancel out less than 30 days before the tour, you will forfeit 50% of the full tour fee or $100 (whichever is greater) unless we can find a replacement. If we find such replacement, you will receive a 100% refund. You will receive a 100% fee refund if the tour is cancelled by TyrannoTours.