Wildlife

Children ages 5 to 10 will join River Legacy staff for a summertime PJ party full of cool summer fun, pizza and snacks while exploring how animals (and humans too!) stay cool in the heat of summer.

Participants will meet some cool-as-a-cucumber animal friends, go on a nature adventure in the cool of the evening, take part in some cool science experiments and wrap up the evening with the movie Lilo & Stitch (PG). Children are welcome to wear their favorite PJ's, but closed toe shoes are recommended.

A look back on restoration efforts at the Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area. What has worked and what hasn’t and the progression of the methods used based upon results observed, or more simply put – How we came up with that crazy idea…

Speaker: Richard Freiheit, Restoration Manager at LLELA

The first ever DFW Urban Wildlife Group get together. We will meet at the old Dreyfuss Club at 600 E. Lawther. From there we make our way down to Sunset Bay and Winfrey Point. There should be plenty of wildlife along the way, and Sunset Bay is well known for its abundant waterfowl.

Afterwards, diehards will reconvene at the spillway (2138 Winsted Dr, Dallas, TX 75214) and follow the dam around to the old fish hatchery. We will take a few minutes to visit the Monk Parakeet colony near the Pump Station.

Presenter Omar Bocanegra is a fish and wildlife biologist with the U.S.

Day-long charter bus tour of prairies in Northeast Texas. $75. See website for itinerary. 

Family friendly festival featuring children’s activities, live animals, nature walk, bat presentation. See complete schedule on the website.

Read the Green Source DFW article.

Interested in having backyard chickens but cluleless as to the investment of time and money? Bill Dougherty will give a talk about how chickens evolved, best breeds for backyards, benefits of raising your own chickens, recommended supplies, housing and feed and controlling predator issues.  Free.

info@trinityhaymarket.com or call 214-202-2163

This month we will be working on our Butterfly and Wildflower beds, and clearing privet stumps.Come join us for all or part of the morning, the weather promises to be wonderful for working outdoors! Please bring your favorite shovel, privet pulling or gardening tools, work gloves or litter picker upper. 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 provided.

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

Bring your smartphones and join Twelve Hills Nature Center in the wrap up event for our busy May calendar!

Urban wildlife biologist Sam Kieschnick from Texas Parks and Wildlife will be leading a nature walk class on iNaturalist.

Mark Klym, coordinator of the Texas Hummingbird Roundup and Texas Wildscapes program at Texas Parks and Wildlife is our speaker this month. His program will focus on the decline of pollinators all around us. Monarchs are a prime example of that decline with the drastic loss of individuals in the eastern populations leading to calls to list this migratory insect as endangered. Habitat loss and factors contributing to habitat loss are probably the most significant factor in this decline. This talk will address some of these factors and action we can take to reduce and reverse this impact.