Go: Wine and chocolate, backyard birds, VSO Young Artists Competition

1. The perfect combination

It’s doesn’t get much better than relaxing and enjoying wine and chocolate. Do exactly that at a wine tasting and chocolate pairing with English Estate wines at the English Estate Winery, 17806 S.E. First St., Vancouver; $12, includes a pairing of six chocolates and wines, and you keep your English Estate logo glass; 21 and older. A hard cider made with Clark County fruit is also available at the pairing. The pairings run from noon to 6 p.m. Feb. 10 and 11. 360-772-5141 or www.englishestatewinery.com

2. Lookin’ out my backdoor

Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s … Superman?

No, it’s actually just a bird, and you can learn how to correctly spot them (and not mistake them for aircraft or passing Kryptonians) from 1 to 3 p.m. Feb. 10 at Second Saturday at the Water Center: Love Your Backyard Birds at the Water Resources Education Center, 4600 S.E. Columbia Way, Vancouver; free. Enjoy fun, interactive activities related to birds. Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. This event is a primer for the Great Backyard Bird Count, which happens Feb. 16 though Feb. 19, and encourages bird-watchers to record the number of birds they see and make real-time snapshots of their locations. 360-487-7111 or www.cityofvancouver.us/publicworks/page/water-resources-education-center

3. Forbidden fruit

If you’re a fan of romantic comedies, start with the earliest love story of them all when “The Diaries of Adam and Eve” kicks off the 2018 season for Love Street Playhouse, 126 Love St. Woodland; $20. The play, which features comedy and romance, has a plot centered on lovers Adam and Eve, who meet under odd circumstances and developed a love that endures and transcends the immediacy of desire and inevitable disappointments and misunderstandings that manifest in relationships. Performances run at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 9, 10, 14, 15, 16 and 17; 2 p.m. Feb. 11 and 18. The Feb. 14 production offers complimentary wine and chocolate offered pre-show from 7 to 7:20. 360-907-9996 or www.lovestreetplayhouse.com

4. Bring your boo

What’s love got to do with it? Love really doesn’t have much to do with a haunted house, but that shouldn’t stop you from enjoying Lovebites, or making a date night out of the Portland haunt. Lovebites, which is run by Vancouver residents Mike Mudgett and his son, Brian, is a haunted house that features 50 live actors, professional sets and scary animatronics. Each group only gets a small candle to guide them through the pitch-black haunt at Fear PDX Haunted House, 5413 N.E. Columbia Blvd., Portland; $28 to $45. You can enjoy (or tremble) at Lovebites from 7 to 10 p.m. Feb. 9 and 10. 971-319-0739 or fearpdx.com

5. Compete for the top spot

Combine tunes and competition at the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artists Competition at 1 p.m. Feb. 11 at Trinity Lutheran Church, 309 W. 39th St., Vancouver; free. Nine of the area’s best young musicians compete in piano, strings and winds/brass for the chance to perform with the VSO and Maestro Salvador Brotons in June. Riley Lyons (trombone, Hockinson High School), Sara Shin (flute, Union High School), Isabel Zheng (flute, Catlin Gabel, Portland), Gabe Reed (piano, Summit High School, Bend, Ore.), Christopher Yoon (piano, Westview High School, Portland), Jenna Tu (piano, Mountain View High School), Cammie Lee (violin, Catlin Gabel, Portland), Evan Llafet (violin, Mountain View High School), Shania Watts (viola; Clark College-Running Start) will compete. 360-695-1221 or vancouversymphony.org