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Join Ted’s Great Texas Birding Classic ‘Big Sit’ Team @Richland Creek WMA
May 2 @ 5:30 am - 9:00 pm
$30.00
This event will be limited to 20 volunteers. Registration Deadline for team and members is April 1st, 2024.
Volunteers must also get a Texas Parks & Wildlife Limited Public Use (LPU) permit. The permit costs $12.00 for a 1-year period from September 1st thru August 31. You can purchase this permit on-line or at your local hunting & sporting goods store (Walmart has them as well.) Tell the store clerk the permit number is 175.
Join Ted Drozdowski and his Big Sit Team in the 28th Annual Great Texas Birding Classic. Ted will again locate his 2024 Big Sit location at Richland Creek Wildlife Management Area in Freestone and Navarro Counties. The entrance is on US 287, approximately 24 miles east of Corsicana, TX.
Ted is planning to do his Big Sit on Thursday, May 2. A rain date will be Wednesday, May 8. Ted is scheduling weekdays when the Wildlife Management Area is less busy than weekends. Ted also wants new volunteers to know that you are welcome to join us for a few hours if you don’t want to be there all day. For more information, contact Ted at drozdovekie@sbcglobal.net or Jim Jones at jim_jones@fwas.org..
The Great Texas Birding Classic is an event hosted each year by Texas Parks and Wildlife. There are several Team Categories from Regional Big Sits (where a team birds from midnight to midnight in one day) to Dispersed Flocks (where teams travel together for 1 day or 6 consecutive days, staying within the state of Texas)
Each team member must pay the registration fee of $30. The fee covers the cost of the official 2024 Birding Classic’s t-shirt, event team prizes, and the rest goes to conservation project grants. Because of the structure of the event, the fee is not refundable. But you will still receive the t-shirt.
For those not familiar with a Big Sit, the team members stay within a circle (of 50-feet diameter) and count each species seen from that circle. If there is a question bout a species sighting, a person is allowed to walk closer to verify identification. Ted has selected a location that is near the eastern most edge of the WMA (where the river water is pumped into the 1st set of ponds, making the ponds rich in nutrients.) The location also allows views of the woodlands towards to river, giving us views of woodland species. If my memory is correct, last year we had over 90 species. We expected more, but some species like kites were not seen.
