Wings Over Whidbey Festival

Wings over Whidbey is set for May 17, 2025 at Pacific Rim Institute. Welcome our coordinator of this festival, Pam Nodus.

Wings over Whidbey Bird Festival 2025

May 17, 2025

Join us for the third year of our annual festival, Wings over Whidbey Bird Festival, Saturday, May 17, 2025. This year it will be a full one-day all ages community bird and nature festival with a well-rounded variety of fun to include educational and informational presentations. We have some exciting presenters lined up. Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue will be returning. Caitlyn Toroman, local master falconer, will be doing a presentation on falconry and raptor conservation and Sarah Schmidt will be doing a presentation on bats.

We expect about a dozen Washington affiliate nonprofit organizations who will have booths that focus on birds, nature, conservation, and climate change. There will also be local artists whose work involves birds and the natural world. The Whidbey Audubon Society’s own bird specimen library will have a collection of preserved birds for visitors to look at closely and touch.

No one will go hungry as there will also be local concessionaires at food booths.

The festival is a FREE event. It will be held at the Pacific Rim Institute (PRI) amongst the forest and prairie vistas of central Whidbey Island. There will be plenty of free parking and handicap parking available. Note that the terrain will be mostly gravel/dirt and uneven in some places.

Make this happen! As per usual, this amazing free event can only happen with your support. We have three ways for you to contribute:

Join the Planning Committee!
Become a Sponsor! A sponsorship form is available at the top right of this page.
Become a Micro-volunteer! We’re looking for volunteers who can donate an hour or two on festival day. Tasks include:

·       Parking
·       Program room chairs set-up/takedown/cleanup
·       Assist vendors with location and setup
·       Festival greeting table and raffle ticket sales
·       Program equipment set-up/takedown
·       Program door greeter
·       Workshop greeters/assistants
·       General grounds cleanup.

For more information or to sign up to help, contact Pam Nodus.

This festival is open to the public. We are able to do this through the support of our wonderful sponsors. To see how you can become a sponsor, download this form. Fill it out by hand or by computer.