The annual Stikine River Birding Festival starts Friday and includes movies, a morning walk to identify birds, video presentations, virtual storytelling from the library, a session on how to build a bird feeder, a community cleanup and a nature trail scavenger hunt.

Activities run through May 8.

Organizers are spreading out the events this year, rather than squeezing everything into four days as was the schedule in 2019.

The pandemic forced cancellation of last year's activities.

"We have been moving toward a festival that celebrates over the course of April and May as the birds come in in...