Hackberry Flat Day offers southwest Oklahoma family fun
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Activities
on the Hackberry Flat area include a morning birding tour for
intermediate and advanced birdwatchers from 8:30 a.m. until noon.
Birding tours for beginners and families are offered four times on
Saturday: 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m., 12:30 p.m., and 2 p.m. New this year, the
first 25 families to sign up for and take the tour will receive one bird
field guide/family. To make reservations for a bird tour, send an
e-mail to mhickman@zoo.odwc.state.ok.us specifying
which of the four time slots are preferred as well as the number of
people in the group. Visitors may also sign up for a tour when upon
arrival at Hackberry Flat Center, but each tour is limited to 20 people.
A waiting list will be maintained.
Families
also can try archery and shotgun shooting for both skilled and
beginning shooters, crayfish hunting, and close-up observation of the
sport fish of Oklahoma in the Wildlife Department's large aquarium.
Activities
continue inside the Center with viewing wetland wildlife in the wetland
classroom presented by Quartz Mountain Nature Park and the OK Wildlife
and Prairie Heritage Alliance, as well as an interactive exhibit about
bats in Oklahoma by Alabaster Caverns State Park.
Participants
of the Hackberry Flat Day activities are exempt from possessing a
hunting or fishing license or conservation passport normally required
when entering most wildlife management areas.
All
activities will begin at the Hackberry Flat Center, a facility that
provides wetland classroom experiences for school groups, programs on
wildlife and wildlife-related activities as well as meeting facilities
for resource-oriented programs, workshops and meetings. More information
as well as directions to Hackberry Flat can be found at www.wildlifedepartment.com/
For more information about other attractions in and around Frederick, call the Frederick Chamber of Commerce at (580) 335-2126.
For more information about the Hackberry Flat Center, call Melynda
Hickman, Wildlife Diversity biologist for the Wildlife Department, at (405) 990-4977.
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