2023 Tarrant County Scavenger Hunt Results
The 2023 Scavenger Hunt was another success this year with only 2 participants, because they had a great time! Shiela Shallcross and myself met at 6:45 a.m. July 19 , had a latte and pastry and started out promptly at 6:00. I was going to only have the hunt go from 6-10:30 due to the heat. However, we had good weather cooperation with a cool morning, overcast skies most of the morning and a great breeze all of the morning. PLaces visited were Viridian, Sherry St Substation, Drying Beds Entry Lane, Dunlop Park, Randall Mill Park, Pappy Elkins Park, a friend’s pond and MLK Sports Complex. Our leisurely pace yielded 61 species and 123 points. Nothing special was found, but there were plenty of birds out and we enjoyed the morning. Yea, team Two Girls Out Birding in July!
Come out and join us next summer!
Paula Channell
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Borderland Research Institute, Sul Ross State University, Alpine, TX
The Borderlands Research Institute (BRI) at Sul Ross State University offers a number of outreach activities to connect people with nature through its education programs and research work. Visit their website (https://bri.sulross.edu) for details about upcoming walks and workshops. FWAS has helped fund some of the institutes work studying sparrow habitat near Marfa, TX.
122nd Annual Christmas Bird Count recap
122nd Christmas Bird Count / recap: The annual Audubon 2021-2022 CBC season was held from Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021, through Wednesday, January 5, 2022. Ft. Worth Audubon hosts two CBCs in Tarrant County. The FW CBC was held on December 18 and the Village Creek Drying Beds CBC was held on December 28. The complete national results are not yet compiled. As of today, 1,645 CBC circles have been compiled, with just under 32 million individual birds counted… READ MORE