Bird Alliance of Oregon – Heron Hall

Explore the trails and gather materials to create unique nature-based art that you will take home at the end of the day!

Spend the day learning about the amazing adaptation of flight! We will dive into all sorts of animals that use flight as their main mode of transportation and investigate the different adaptations that allow them to do this amazing feat!

Get inspired to be crafty as we hike our trails, visit with our Ambassador Animals and find natural objects to incorporate into your art. You will learn how to make rolled beeswax and scented candles to cast a warm and lovely glow on the cold days of winter. Create colorful drawings and mixed media art based on your observations and found objects from our wildlife habitat at the Bird Alliance of Oregon Sanctuary.

Come out and learn all about the animals and their amazing adaptations that help them survive the night! Look at owl specimens, play games using echo-location and make crafts that focus on our nocturnal friends.

Spend the day learning about the amazing adaptation of flight and bird migration! We will dive into all sorts of animals that use flight as their main mode of transportation and investigate the different adaptations that allow them to do this amazing feat! We will look at specimens, create flight themed art projects, look for these animals in the forest and learn about the challenges that these airborne creatures face.

Many magical creatures roam the forest floor when we’re not looking. Join us for Magical Forest Camp to explore the trails in search of our Nature Sanctuary’s enchanted wonders! From fairies and gnomes, to furry critters who stay hidden, we will learn how to hone our senses, make art and create homes for these animals and magical beings.

Spend a day at Bird Alliance of Oregon getting all of your questions about animal winter survival answered as we play games, conduct science experiments, and create hibernation-themed crafts, exploring the amazing world of animal survival.

Come out as we search for our fairy friends in the magical Bird Alliance of Oregon Sanctuary. If you love magic and fun, this is the camp for you!

Learn all about mammals and their winter adaptations.

Come learn about the birds that stay in Portland, the birds that migrate out and why they do what they do! We will walk the forest searching for winter residents, travel to a nearby wetland, and play games to take a deeper dive into bird survival and create crafts to help birds in the winter!

Create colorful drawings, make clay sculptures, and a mixed media nature assemblage based on your observations in our Nature Sanctuary and the critters you meet who live in our forested wildlife habitat.

This camp is all about OWLS! Investigate the amazing adaptations of these avian predators as you handle talons, skulls, nests, wings and feathers. Listen and learn owl calls, dissect an owl pellet, make owl art, and hike in owl habitat.

Get inspired to be crafty as we hike our trails, visit with our Ambassador Animals and find natural objects to incorporate into your art.

Come learn about these amazing species as we spend the day creating crafts inspired by our Amphibian friends, searching for them on nature walks and brainstorming ideas on how to help protect them.

Join us for a day in the Gorge as we go in search of Salmon trying to find their way back to spawn! We will learn about the geology that made the Gorge habitat so special, hike the trails, and visit the Bonneville Fish Hatchery to try and find these amazing fish that are so important to the ecology of the Pacific Northwest.

Come learn about these amazing species as we spend the day creating crafts inspired by our Amphibian friends, searching for them on nature walks and brainstorming ideas on how to help protect them.

Head to Jackson Bottom Wetlands, one of the conservation jewels of Washington County in search of birds and mammals that call this marsh home. You will learn about the tracks that these animals leave behind such as paw prints, scat, nests and tree markings and all the special adaptations that these creatures have in order to help them prepare for the upcoming cold winter.

It’s not a plant, it’s not an animal — it’s a FUNGUS! Join us in our Nature Sanctuary to explore the fantastic, wonderful and weird world of fungi! We’ll learn why fungus is important to forest health and we’ll hike the trails in search of these amazing organisms, discovering mushrooms that can help us and harm us and how they help the forest. We will make crafts inspired by mushrooms and learn about some of their incredible adaptations!

Come to Bird Alliance of Oregon to learn what makes raptors so special as you roam our forested trails and investigate wings, talons, skulls and more! This is an all-about-birds camp!

Fernhill Wetlands is a success story for ecological restoration in the Portland Metro area! On this camp you will experience the importance of wetlands for wildlife and the role that humans can play in protecting these key ecosystems that provide safe havens for hundreds of animals that depend on them to survive. Spend the day searching for wildlife and investigate specimens that live in the area.

Put your detective hat on and come out and spend the day investigating the clues that animals leave behind. Learn how to read animal tracks and discover what other signs animals leave behind and what they tell us about those animals! Investigate real animal specimens, hike the trails in search of clues and create your own track to take home!

As you are fast asleep at night what kind of animals are scurrying about wide awake? Come out and learn all about these nocturnal species and their amazing adaptations that help them survive the PNW dark nights. Look at owl specimens, play games using echolocation and make crafts that focus on our nocturnal friends. If you’ve ever wondered what happens in nature while you are asleep then this is the camp for you!

What is it like to be a bug? How enormous can everything really seem from their perspective? Crawl, fly and buzz on over to our Nature Sanctuary to learn about a day in the life of our favorite 6 and 8 legged friends!

On this Junior trekking camp we will go to Tillamook State Forest and hike one of their amazing medium-grade trails as we learn to interact with nature in a sustainable way, leaving no trace behind and practicing the 10-essentials to outdoor survival. This camp is for students in grades 4-6.

Have you ever thought about what it takes to survive in the winter? Band together with your fellow campers to learn the ins and outs of wilderness survival. Learn about edible plants, helpful knots and leave no trace principles! These important skills will help build outdoor confidence and competency in the outdoors for your camper!

We are going crafty, very crafty! On this camp we will recreate art with natural materials found in our Forests, we will engage all of our sense and reimagine a world where humans and nature coexist in harmony and peace. This is where ecology and the arts meet to make a better world for all.

Spend the day at our Sanctuary learning about the animals that awake when we go to sleep. Investigate owl and bat specimens to learn about the similarities and differences between the two. We will conduct experiments with our own eyes to see human adaptations for seeing at night and then go out in search of some of these creatures in our forest sanctuary!

Let’s head into our sanctuary to practice our stealth and hiding skills. We will learn what type of movements allow us to travel undetected through the woods, how we can learn from animals to better camouflage ourselves and hone our observation skills. Spend the day hiking the trails, camouflaging into the forest and investigating animals that live right here in our forest!

Discover your creative side in this one day camp using materials from nature. We will hike the trails finding inspiration and materials like rocks, sticks, fallen leaves and invasive weeds that will turn into creative arts and crafts projects. This is where nature and crafts meet in artsy ways!

Take a stroll in the forest to listen to the birds that call forest park home in the winter Learn about different survival strategies of birds in the winter and the adaptations that help them do so!

With microscopes in hand, hit the trail in search of our forests smallest creatures. Learn about the importance of these small wonders and why ecosystems depend on them!

Join us in our Nature Sanctuary to look for clues and signs left behind by wildlife living in our corner of the Pacific Northwest! We’ll learn how mammals prepare to spend the winter months in Oregon and discover that humans are not the only merry mammals thriving in the area

Learn the craft of candle making! You’ll work with beeswax, wicks, and molds to create beautiful and functional nature-themed candles to brighten up the short winter days.

Join us as we learn about the magical beings of the forest! Create a gnome home, craft fairy wings and imagine all of the magical ways that our mystical friends care for the forests when we aren’t looking!

Hibernation and torpor are ways that our Pacific Northwest birds and mammals endure the winter months! Let’s find out how they do it as we explore pelts and skulls from these amazing survivors. Out in the forest, we can also look for some of their hide outs and signs of their presence like paw prints and scat. Come join us on this exploration day!