Wildlife

Warbler ID with authors of the Warbler Guide. Lunch served.

Join the group for its first workday on the NPAT project area at White Rock Lake. The group will be removing Queen Anne's lace and Johnson grass from native grasslands on Boy Scout Hill. Bring hand tools, work gloves, drinking water and sun gear. Meet at the small parking area and picnic structure at Boy Scout Hill.

RJ Taylor and Pat Merkord will bring us a discussion about what you can do to help preserve threatened prairie sites in North Texas.  RJ Taylor will present an overview of several prairie sites in the Blackland Prairie region that are currently under the threat of habitat loss. 

Bring your binoculars and camera to join The Friends of O.S. Gray Natural Area for this year's edition of the Great Backyard Bird Count. We’ll have a guided bird walk led by our most excellent birder and past Audubon Society President, Charley Amos.

Participants are encouraged to bring binoculars and cameras.

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

Launched in 1998 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society, the Great Backyard Bird Count was the first online citizen-science project to collect data on wild birds and to display results in near real-time.

Since then, more than 100,000 people of all ages and walks of life have joined the four-day count each February to create an annual snapshot of the distribution and abundance of birds.

New and experienced bird watchers of all ages are welcome to join us at Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center as we participate with thousands of people across the nation in this great tradition of citizen science. Counting birds is a fun, free, family-friendly way to discover and help the birds in your community. Free.

Info: 469-526-1987 or dcac@audubon.org. 

Earth Day Texas and TEDxSMU will showcase the fourth film in their ongoing environmental documentary screening series Jumbo Wild. The critically acclaimed new film from Patagonia transport viewers to the untamed mountains of British Columbia.

Speakers galore on sustainability lifestyle

Jim Marshall, a local bluebird enthusiastic who has fought to protect their habitat most recently along the Trinity Trail in Fort Worth against fracking interests, will be this month’s speaker. He will provide the history of efforts to rebuild the population of Eastern Bluebirds in Fort Worth that began in 2007. Information will also be provided on bluebird habitats, nest box installation, nesting and reproduction activities, and predator threats and controls

Amy Hays, Hugh Aljoe, Mike Proctor present “Moving Forward in Sustainable Management of Natural Resources – the Noble Foundations relationship with innovative producers, applied research, and partnerships.”

In 2015, the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation celebrated its 70th anniversary. The independent, nonprofit agricultural research headquartered in Ardmore, Oklahoma, assists farmers and ranchers and conducts plant science research and agricultural programs to enhance conservation, natural resource management and sustainability regionally, nationally and internationally.