[AustinEcoNetwork] Travis Audubon May Events

[Brandi Clark]

From: Nancy Manning <nancy at travisaudubon.org>
MEDIA ADVISORY                             Austin,May, 2008
CONTACT                                          NancyManning, Executive Director
                                                            E-mail:nancy at travisaudubon.org
                                                            Phone:  512-300-BIRD
 
TRAVIS AUDUBON SOCIETY MAY EVENTSAND CLASSES
 
**PLEASE NOTE THAT MORE INFORMATIONCAN BE FOUND ON OUR WEB SITE AT:
WWW.TRAVISAUDUBON.ORG
 
FIELD TRIPS: May
                                                                                              


                      Sunday May 4th
through Saturday May 10th 2008, Travis Audubon 
                            Week at Warbler Woods


Warbler Woods is private property
managed as a bird and wildlife 
refuge and preserve. It covers 126 acres of varied habitat
covering 
Pecan Gap sediments with gently rolling topography. Located
 near 
the convergence of three Ecological Regions: South Texas
Plains, 
Blackland Prairie, and Edwards Plateau,it is also near the Post Oak 
Savannah region. Because of the proximity to several
Ecological 
Regions, a varied habitat supports a diverse plant community
which 
in turn hosts, feeds, and protects a wide diversity of
wildlife. With a 
property list of about 230 bird species, including 36 species
of 
Warblers, Warbler Woods is one of the gems in the spring
migration 
crown in central Texas.
Travis Audubon will be the special guests of owners Don and
Susan 
Schaezler during this week of peak migration at Warbler Woods.

Come and be a part of watching and recording the spectacle
which 
is spring migration in central Texas.

Saturday, May 10th, all day
Travis Audubon Society BIRDATHON
Birdathon is on of Travis Audubon’s major fund-raisers of the
year.

Saturday, May 10th,  7 a.m. & 4 p.m.
Monthly Bird Count at Hornsby Bend

Saturday, May 17th,  7:30 a.m. to Noon
Monthly Bird Walk at Hornsby Bend led by George Kerr

Sunday, May 18th, 7:30 – Noon, Balcones Canyonlands NWR led
by 
Laurie Foss and Shelia Hargis

When Spanish explorers first saw the layers of hills
northwest of 
what is now Austin, Texas, they named the land Balcones. These

limestone hills and spring fed canyons make up most of the 
Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge, located north
of 
Lake Travis. The primary purpose of the refuge is to conserve the 
nesting habitat of the endangered Golden-cheeked Warbler and 
Black-capped Vireo. The refuge falls at the juncture of the
Great 
Plains and Gulf Coast bioregions. Inaddition, the refuge straddles 
the divide between the Coloradoand Brazos watersheds. Beneath 
the land lies a mysterious labyrinth of caves. Add the unusual

limestone geology of the Edwards Plateauand it’s not surprising to 
find plants and animals adapted to live here and nowhere else.
At 
least a third of the state’s threatened and endangered species
live 
or migrate through the area. We’ll decide on what locations in
the 
refuge we’ll visit the week before the field trip, so be sure
to contact 
fieldtrips at travisaudubon.orgfor more field trip info and to register. 
Limit 12 participants.

Austin's premier birding site. No registration required. Contact 
fieldtrips at travisaudubon.org for more information.
 More 
information and directions to the site can be found here.

Contact Eric Carpenter at ecarpe at gmail.comfor more information. 
Sponsored monthly by the Hornsby Bend Bird Observatory.

May 24rd and May 25th, Breeding Warblers of the East Texas 
Piney Woods, led by Laurie Foss and Shelia Hargis

Join us for a very special treat – a look at the breeding
warblers of 
the East Texas Piney Woods. Yellow-throated, Prothonotary, 
Northern Parula, Pine, Prairie, Black-and-white, Swainson's, 
Kentucky, Common Yellowthroat, Hooded Warblers and Yellow-
breasted Chats are all known to breed in this region. We'll
arrive 
Friday evening in Nacogdoches to group up and our field trips
will be 
all day Saturday and Sunday. The field trip will conclude at
dinner on 
Sunday leaving you time to make it back to the Austin area
that night 
if you wish or spend another night and bird on the way back
with us 
on Monday.

Limit 12 participants. Cost of this trip is $75 to cover the
expenses of 
the field trip leaders.

May 31st, Birding Without Binoculars, 7a.m. – 11a.m., led
by Eric 
Carpenter

Have you ever wondered how many birds you could see if you
went 
on a field trip and left your binoculars and the rest of your
"birding 
equipment" at home?  Join Eric Carpenter for a
morning of birding at 
Hornsby Bend to find a variety of birds that can be identified
with only 
your eyes, ears, and previous experiences.  Join in the
challenge of 
birding by impression and by knowing your local bird songs.
 We will 
spend a few hours hiking the trails of Hornsby Bend and will
also 
visit the ponds there.

Registration required; limited to 14 participants.
 Contact Eric 
Carpenter at ecarpe at gmail.comfor more information.
   
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Nancy Manning
Executive Director
Travis Audubon Society
3710 Cedar Street
Box 5
Austin, TX 78705
 
(512) 300-BIRD
www.travisaudubon.org
nancy at travisaudubon.org
 
Inspiring Conservation through 
Birding.



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