Bird & Nature Walks

This is our first official full-scale prairie assessment project! This will tie together the previous workshop & field training.

Did you go bird watching and take photos or video in some exotic locale or in your backyard during the last year?  Please consider sharing your adventures with us at the May General Meeting Member’s Slide Show. Jim Jones will organize the material into a Power Point presentation for this meeting on May 11, 2017 and the deadline for getting your photos and videos to him is May 5, 2017. Please send your submissions by E-mail at jim_jones@fwas.org, or deliver them on a USB thumb drive or CD at our April meeting.

Join us for a great time at one of the best dayhike places in the area. We will meet at the parking lot at 9 AM and hike about 6 miles (2 to 2.5 hours). Afterward, we plan to have lunch at a restaurant nearby. The Preserve is a not-for-profit natural habitat of 633 acres featuring 10 miles of hiking trails, a native plant nursery and butterfly gardens. Find your way to IH 20 in Dallas, just east of Grand Prairie and take exit 458 for Mountain Creek Parkway. Go south for a few miles and you will see the entrance to the Preserve on your right. Trip rated: Easy.

Get inspired-spend an evening with the FWAS and Lynn Barber, extreme birder, artist, photographer, all around renaissance woman; and author of Extreme Birder: One Woman’s Big Year and Birds in Trouble. Ms. Barber will talk about her birding travels and adventures around Alaska during her 2016 Alaskan big year; including slides of over 300 species of birds seen around the Anchorage, Homer, and Kenai areas; Dutch Harbor, Adak, the Pribilofs, Central Alaska, and Barrow.  Ms.

Butterflies fascinate us with their colors and effortless flight. Come with us as we search for these flying wonders as they glide across the prairie. Learn about their life cycle, natural history and the important role they play in our environment. $5 (with paid admission)

Please bring your favorite work gloves, shovel, litter picker upper, or gardening tools.

Wear appropriate clothing for the weather and for working in a natural area (long pants, long sleeves, sturdy shoes, hat).

Water and snacks will be available.

O.S. Gray Natural Area has no restroom facilities, but Kroger is nearby.

Info: friendsofosgray@gmail.com

For some, identifying birds by sight can be easy. However, identifyingbirds by sound can be more difficult. Come and learn some common bird calls and join us as we hike the Nature Center identifying birds by sound. Pre-registration required. $5 (with paid admission).

Nature walks, wildlife demonstrations and environmental activities at Dayspring Nature Preserve.

Taxonomists with the help of volunteers will document all living species - plants, animals and insects - seen on the 2,600-acre natural area using the iNaturalist app over the course of the day. If you are interested in volunteering, contact Scott Keister at skiester2@gmail.com

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Join LLELA’s guides for a fascinating evening as you trek to LLELA’s prairie restoration area to view the wonders of the night sky. Constellations both familiar and unusual, satellites, and sometimes planets and the moon are features of the ever-changing night sky. If the sky is cloudy, we will substitute a night hike. Ages 5 and up. $10. Registration is required by 11a.m. Friday, March 24, at bit.ly/CoLRegistration. Search for activity code 800001.