Grays Harbor Shorebird and Nature Festival
Start planning to attend the next festival: April 25 - 27, 2025
Grays Harbor Shorebird and Nature Festival
Coastal Interpretive Center Programs of Interest
Bird watching tours for 2025
In the lead-up to this year's Shorebird & Nature Festival, the CIC will be hosting shorebird walks in Ocean Shores! Join us on April 19. Details and registration online.
April tour: https://interpretivecenter.org/event/guided-tour-sunset-shorebird-walk/
Volunteer Training or Education
March 29, 2025, 1:30pm @ CIC Museum - CIC Volunteer Training
All are welcome to learn (or refresh) their skills and become a CIC volunteer! If you like science and nature, we'll talk about all kinds of opportunities we offer in Ocean Shores (and across Grays Harbor) to engage with students, with museumgoers, and visitors to our community.
https://interpretivecenter.org/event/cic-volunteer-training-2/
Friday, April 25, 5 pm
Opening Reception: "Wings Over Grays Harbor"
https://interpretivecenter.org/event/opening-reception-wings-over-grays-harbor/
Saturday, April 26, 9 am
Birding by Ear
https://interpretivecenter.org/event/birding-by-ear/
Saturday, April 26, 11 am
Birds in Watercolor : Rendering Birds on Paper
https://interpretivecenter.org/event/birds-in-watercolor-rendering-birds-on-paper/
Sunday, April 27, 9 am
Birding by Ear
https://interpretivecenter.org/event/birding-by-ear-2/
May 3, 2025, 12pm - 2pm @ CIC Museum - Green Crab Molt Search Training
Learn how to identify and count invasive European Green Crab with the CIC and our partners at Washington Sea Grant! You'll gain the skills and resources to take on an easygoing citizen science project on your own.
https://interpretivecenter.org/event/science-green-crab-molt-training/
April 30, 2025 9:30am - 11:30am @ Brady's Oysters - Eelgrass Education Seminar
The CIC's partners at the Dept of Natural Resources will show us how they measure eelgrass health and collect indirect measurements of water quality in Grays Harbor. Join us for a field trip to an important and multi-year scientific field site.
https://interpretivecenter.org/event/eelgrass-education-seminar/
May 3, 2025 12pm - 5pm @ CIC Museum - COASST Beached Birds Training
Become a beachwalking, bird-identifying citizen scientist! Join the CIC and our partners at COASST to learn the skills and get the resources to assist scientists in tracking bird populations across Ocean Shores and the North Beach area.
https://interpretivecenter.org/event/science-beached-birds-training/
In the lead-up to this year's Shorebird & Nature Festival, the CIC will be hosting shorebird walks in Ocean Shores! Join us on April 19. Details and registration online.
April tour: https://interpretivecenter.org/event/guided-tour-sunset-shorebird-walk/
Volunteer Training or Education
March 29, 2025, 1:30pm @ CIC Museum - CIC Volunteer Training
All are welcome to learn (or refresh) their skills and become a CIC volunteer! If you like science and nature, we'll talk about all kinds of opportunities we offer in Ocean Shores (and across Grays Harbor) to engage with students, with museumgoers, and visitors to our community.
https://interpretivecenter.org/event/cic-volunteer-training-2/
Friday, April 25, 5 pm
Opening Reception: "Wings Over Grays Harbor"
https://interpretivecenter.org/event/opening-reception-wings-over-grays-harbor/
Saturday, April 26, 9 am
Birding by Ear
https://interpretivecenter.org/event/birding-by-ear/
Saturday, April 26, 11 am
Birds in Watercolor : Rendering Birds on Paper
https://interpretivecenter.org/event/birds-in-watercolor-rendering-birds-on-paper/
Sunday, April 27, 9 am
Birding by Ear
https://interpretivecenter.org/event/birding-by-ear-2/
May 3, 2025, 12pm - 2pm @ CIC Museum - Green Crab Molt Search Training
Learn how to identify and count invasive European Green Crab with the CIC and our partners at Washington Sea Grant! You'll gain the skills and resources to take on an easygoing citizen science project on your own.
https://interpretivecenter.org/event/science-green-crab-molt-training/
April 30, 2025 9:30am - 11:30am @ Brady's Oysters - Eelgrass Education Seminar
The CIC's partners at the Dept of Natural Resources will show us how they measure eelgrass health and collect indirect measurements of water quality in Grays Harbor. Join us for a field trip to an important and multi-year scientific field site.
https://interpretivecenter.org/event/eelgrass-education-seminar/
May 3, 2025 12pm - 5pm @ CIC Museum - COASST Beached Birds Training
Become a beachwalking, bird-identifying citizen scientist! Join the CIC and our partners at COASST to learn the skills and get the resources to assist scientists in tracking bird populations across Ocean Shores and the North Beach area.
https://interpretivecenter.org/event/science-beached-birds-training/