Bird & Nature Walks

The Trinity Bird Count is an exciting new effort to count every bird species in and along our Trinity River in Dallas! Birds are among the most beautiful and intriguing visitors and residents of the forests, grasslands, river banks and neighborhoods along the Trinity River.

This year, the Trinity Commons Foundation begins an exciting new project to learn about the Trinity's birds – the Trinity Bird Count. With 636 of the 957 bird species in North America, Texas is for the birds! Come enjoy the Trinity and help investigate the birds that live along the Trinity or that visit here during their migration.

The Trinity Bird Count is underway! Here are the next opportunities to join us in the count! 

Area #4 - Greater Trinity Forest, on May 19, 2012 from 7:00 – 10:00 a.m. Meet at parking lot at the south end of Bexar Street. Click here for map of location.

The Trinity Bird Count is an exciting new effort to count every bird species in and along our Trinity River in Dallas! Birds are among the most beautiful and intriguing visitors and residents of the forests, grasslands, river banks and neighborhoods along the Trinity River.

This year, the Trinity Commons Foundation begins an exciting new project to learn about the Trinity's birds – the Trinity Bird Count. With 636 of the 957 bird species in North America, Texas is for the birds! Come enjoy the Trinity and help investigate the birds that live along the Trinity or that visit here during their migration.

The Trinity Bird Count is underway! Here are the next opportunities to join us in the count! 

Area #3 - Levee B - Pioneer Plaza & Trammell Crow Lake Park, on May 12, 2012 from 8:00 – 11:00 a.m. Meet at Pioneer Plaza (corner of Young and Griffin streets downtown) in the small parking lot on the Young street side.

The Trinity Bird Count is an exciting new effort to count every bird species in and along our Trinity River in Dallas! Birds are among the most beautiful and intriguing visitors and residents of the forests, grasslands, river banks and neighborhoods along the Trinity River.

This year, the Trinity Commons Foundation begins an exciting new project to learn about the Trinity's birds – the Trinity Bird Count. With 636 of the 957 bird species in North America, Texas is for the birds! Come enjoy the Trinity and help investigate the birds that live along the Trinity or that visit here during their migration.

The Trinity Bird Count is underway! Here are the next opportunities to join us in the count! 

Free admission all day Open 9AM-9PM.  

Come and join us for a different type of Canoe Tour in the evening hours. This program will present new opportunities like hearing beavers slap the water with their tails and seeing other wildlife like deer and raccoon. Canoes, paddles and lifejackets are provided.

Children must be 5 years or older. Parents must sign a liability waiver for minor children. Some previous experience recommended. Registration ends preceding Tuesday or when filled.

Maximum - 12 participants.

Meet at Back Gate.

Pre-registration required.

$20 (includes admission fee)/MEMBERS $15.

 The Great Plains are located on the westernmost portion of the vast North American Interior Plains.

They were covered by a shallow inland sea called the Western Interior Seaway. However, the seaway had begun to recede; leaving behind thick  marine deposits and a relatively flat terrain where the seaway had once flowed.

We will see how this set the stage for what became the Nature Center.

Short slide presentation and walk. Part 2 of the Life on the Prairie series.

$5 (with paid admission)/MEMBERS FREE.

The management of the prairie is critically important for the survival of the prairie ecosystem today.

Vast landscape and ecological changes and cessation of natural processes have made it necessary for humans to apply, to the best of their knowledge, management practices that may have occurred naturally.

It is speculated that humankind has been managing the prairie for thousands of years. Native Americans would routinely burn the prairie for easy nomadic passage and to bring bison to the newly greening
prairie.

Part 3 of the Life on the Prairie series.

$5 (with paid admission)/MEMBERS FREE.

Enjoy a bit of canoeing/kayaking on your own on the quiet waters around Greer Island.

Canoes/kayaks, paddles and lifejackets provided.

Children in canoes must be 5 years or older and accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Kayakers must be at least 14 years old and accompanied by their guardian, otherwise at least 18 years old. Parents must sign a liability waiver for minor children. No registration needed.

First come-first served. Greer Island gate will open at 11 a.m.

Meet at Greer Island. $5 (with paid admission)/MEMBERS $3.

http://www.fwnaturecenter.org/

Friday, April 20, 2012

6:00 – 7:30 p.m.

Evening Hike

Oak Cliff Nature Preserve

2875 Pierce Street, Dallas, TX 75233