From April 1 through May 1, 2011, Tropical Birding is
offering free guided birding walks in conjuction with Houston Audubon.
Check the schedule below and make the most of this opportunity!
Participants need to either have a season pass to the Houston Audubon
Society (HAS) sanctuaries, or else pre-pay their entrance fees before
meeting for the walk.
Unless otherwise noted, these events
run every day from April 1 through May 1. This is a preliminary schedule and is
subject to change.
09.00 am: Birding walk at the
Houston Audubon Society Boy Scout Woods Sanctuary. Meet at the HAS kiosk just
inside the entrance.
12:00 pm:
Shorebirds and Coastal bird walks. Meet at the Houston Audubon Society Boy Scout Woods Sanctuary kiosk.
These walks are flexible and will focus on visiting the best shorebird
areas at the time, whether this is Anahuac NWR or the coastal hotspots
of the Bolivar Peninsula. 4:00 pm: Birding walk at the
Houston Audubon's Smith Oaks Sanctuary. Meet
in the sanctuary car park on Old Mexico Road. The walk will focus on
finding any newly arrived migrants in the woods, although often also
visits the rookery in the sanctuary to take in the sight of nesting
egrets, herons, and spoonbills too. On busy days for migrants we will
remain focused on the frenetic migrant action and therefore may not
have time to visit the rookery too. This
year there will also be some workshops on warbler and shorebird ID that
will support the walks that we will be operating for Houston Audubon,
as well as presentations on international birding. The details are as
follows:
Monday April 11
10:00am: A Presentation on Australian Birding by Nick Leseberg
2:00pm: Warbler ID workshop
Friday April 15
10:00am: Shorebird ID workshop
2:00pm: A Presentation on Birding the Galapagos Islands by Sam Woods
Monday April 18
10:00am: Shorebird ID workshop
2:00pm: A Presentation on the Hottest Places on Earth for Nature Photography
Friday April 22
10:00am: A Presentation on Birding Tandayapa (Ecuador) by Scott Watson
2:00pm: Warbler ID workshop
Monday April 25
10:00am: A Presentation on Australian Birding by Nick Leseberg
2:00pm: Warbler ID workshop
Friday April 29
10:00am: Shorebird ID workshop
2:00pm: A Presentation on Birding the Galapagos Islands by Sam Woods
All of these presentations and workshops will be held at the High Island Methodist Church on Weeks Avenue.
Please
note registration for the Houston Audubon (HAS) workshops should be
made through HAS, please see
http://www.houstonaudubon.org/default.aspx/MenuItemID/984/MenuGroup/High+Island.htm for
further details.
The international birding presentations are FREE and are on a first-come-first serve basis.
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