The Southern Vermont Natural History Museum organized the Vermont Wildlife Festival at Hogback Mountain in Marlboro on Sunday. The family-focused event, which continued from 10am to 4pm celebrated Vermont's wildlife, wild places, outdoor heritages and outdoor future.

The festival was put on with the help of the Squam Lakes Science Center, the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife and other groups. In the event, differnet types of animals were present.

Presentations were also given during the event. In one of the presentations, Vermont Institute of Natural Science educator Joshua Detweiler shared an interesting thing that not all owls will hoot, as some will even make sounds akin to other animals.

The VINS center has more than 40 birds. Out of them, around 10 are used for educational purposes and rest of them is on exhibit. Detweiler is of the belief that a good question can be asked by an adult or a child.

But he strongly believes that it can get difficult to answer a question, as it has to be seen that how much knowledge does the questioner has on the topic. "When people come to the center, a lot of time I'm assuming they aren't as educated with these birds as other people are. But you get people who come in and know way more than you think you do", stated Detweiler.

Museum Director Ed Metcalfe said that the festival went well and was visited by several hundreds of people. Museum Assistant Director Michael Clough even showed festival goers a corn snake and allowed them to touch one. Clough affirmed that corn snakes have small mouths and they eat worms.

They are quite docile and not even make an attempt to bite, stated Clough. Educator Lexi Atsalis-Gogel of Putney offered a workshop on starting fires, which was one of his passions.