Migration Festival gets residents, visitors ready for autumn season

PHOTOS BY DEANNA BERTRAND

Auxiliary Officer Erik Damphouse helps out Octavius Loewen, 6, of Wheatley with his pumpkin carving at the Kingsville OPP Station on Division St. S. Saturday afternoon, October 15. The annual event was put on by the Kingsville Community Policing Committee.

Migration Festival mascot Honkers was on hand to greet visitors at Jack Miner Bird Sanctuary, 332 Road 3 W., Kingsville, on Saturday. Here, Liam Tofflemire, 6, of Leamington stops for a picture.

Liam McFarland holds up his catch at the fish pond at Jack Miner Bird Sanctuary Saturday afternoon.

Migration Festival mascot Honkers and volunteer Emily Carnegie, 14, set off in the hay maze on Cobb Field at the Jack Miner Bird Sanctuary this past weekend.

Karen Kennedy with Athena, a Eurasian eagle owl, at the Kingsport Falconry Birds of Prey Show and Demonstration at Lakeside Park Saturday afternoon.

Madison Babula paints the face of Rylee Redekop, 7, of Kingsville, at Lions Park.

Lindsay Longpre of Cottam works on her painting for the Quick Paint competition at the Migration Festival Saturday morning.

Luke Nelner, 9, of Kingsville, holds out his arm for Blaze, a Red-Tailed Hawk, to land at the Kingsport Birds of Prey demonstration at Lakeside Park during this weekend’s 53rd annual Migration Festival.