Please join us Saturday, September 13th to enjoy early fall migrants! We will meet at 7 AM at Pollywog Pond Bird and Wildlife Sanctuary. Participants can expect an easy walk along a flat trail approximately 1.25 miles in total, and should wear a light longsleeve shirt and pants in case there are mosquitos. We will hope to see local breeders like Green Kingfishers, Green Jays, and Least Grebes, and will focus on finding early migrants like Olive-sided and Yellow-bellied Flycatchers, Mourning Warblers, Canada Warblers, and Wilson's Warblers. A good fall morning at Pollywog can sometimes net over 100 species thanks to its diverse and unique habitats.

After we have birded Pollywog, we will take a short (~5 minutes) drive to the nearby Hazel Bazemore Park and Hawkwatch Platform where participants should bring a picnic lunch to enjoy at the Hawkwatch Platform! We will hope to see migrating raptors like Broad-winged Hawks and Mississippi Kites, as well as local breeders visiting the feeding station at the platform. Expect the day to end between 11am to noon, but feel free to hang out at the Hawkwatch Platform and enjoy migration for as long as you want!

Jack Rogers leads

Join us for our Fall potluck picnic at the Hazel Bazemore Park hawkwatch platform at 6:00 PM. Bring a dish to share and your own plate, utensils, chair, and of course tupperware for leftovers!

Join us at the Hawkwatch Platform at Hazel Bazemore Park for our June potluck. Bring a dish to share, plates and silverware, chairs, and a container for leftovers as we say farewell for the summer.

Join us for our monthly meeting at the South Texas Botanical Gardens educational building from 7PM to 9 PM.

Bring a flashdrive with your best bird or wildlife photos to showcase to the club!

Grab a chair, some water, snacks, and binoculars and help us find amazing birds by simply sitting in special locations.

If you would like to participate, contact AOC President Liam Wolff.

Volunteer to man the AOC table at Birdiest Festival in America, where we sell items to raise money for the club.

Let Liam Wolff know if you’d like to volunteer: liamgwolff@gmail.com.

Volunteer to man the AOC table at Birdiest Festival in America, where we sell items to raise money for the club.

Let Liam Wolff know if you’d like to volunteer: liamgwolff@gmail.com.

Volunteer to man the AOC table at Birdiest Festival in America, where we sell items to raise money for the club.

Let Liam Wolff know if you’d like to volunteer: liamgwolff@gmail.com.

Volunteers needed for Earth Day Bay Day on April 12th! The AOC will have a table selling various items. Let Liam Wolff know if you are available: liamgwolff@gmail.com.

Learn more about the event at the Earth Day Bay Day Website.

Join us at the Harte Research Institute, Room 127, for our monthly meeting at 6 PM to 8 PM.

We will host our 2024 scholarship recipients to talk about their research.

Susan Foster leads the group around some of the best hotspots in Rockport.

Please RSVP to Susan Foster (idratherbebirding@gmail.com) before the field trip!

Meet at the corner of Business Hwy. 35 and Henderson St. (2828 TX-35 BUS, Rockport, TX 78382) to carpool from there. Meet at 8 AM.

Meet at 12 PM the Whitecap NPI headquarters at 14353 Commodores Dr, Corpus Christi, TX 78418 to accompany Whitecap staff onto the new preserve in-development within the new housing development being constructed along Aquarius and Commodores. This is a great opportunity to tour a new nature preserve as it is being created.

https://whitecaplivingnpi.com/whitecap-nature-preserve/

Meet at the entrance to the Packery Channel Oak Motte Sanctuary at 9 AM for sanctuary maintenance. Bring work gloves, loppers, rakes, shears, or weed-eaters.

Join us at the South Texas Botanical Gardens in the education building 7 PM to 9 PM for our monthly meeting.

Ryce Hailes, a master’s student at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi’s Harte Research Institute will talk about using recording devices to investigate how birds migrate from high elevations to low elevations in different seasons in the Pacific forests of Ecuador.

RSVP to Liam Wolff (706) 607-0229 or liamgwolff@gmail.com by February 28!

Dan Walker (TPWD) will lead us around the Powderhorn Ranch WMA and the upcoming State Park property looking for Whooping Cranes and many more amazing birds.

We will meet at the main gate, 10769 Farm to Market Rd 1289, Port O’Connor, Texas 77982 at 8 AM.

If you are coming from Corpus Christi, take TX-35 east past Tivoli until it intersects with TX-185 where you turn right; this will take you through the town of Seadrift nearly to Port O'Connor. 10 Miles past Seadrift is the intersection with Farm to Market 1289 where you'll turn left (there is a sign for Powderhorn WMA at the corner here) and another half mile the entrance/meeting point will be on your right where another sign for Powderhorn WMA is just beyond the gate. When you plug "Powderhorn Wildlife Management Area" into Google Maps it should take you directly to the meeting point.

Terry Little leads at the Wesley Seale Dam and La Fruta Park looking for cool birds

Meet at 7:30 AM at the small parking lot for Wesley Seale Dam location on Park Rd. 25 just off of Hwy 359 west of Mathis. Take 359 west to Park Rd. 25 (Tackle Box Store) and turn right on Park Rd. 25 and take a quick left into the small parking area. We will bird the Wesley Seale dam for 2.5 to 3 hours and then travel across Hwy 359 to bird La Fruta Park. Easy walk with bathrooms available at La Fruta Park.

Join us at the South Texas Botanical Gardens in the education building from 7 PM to 9 PM for our monthly meeting.

Local Christmas Bird Count compilers will recap the results of the 2024 Christmas Bird Counts.

Lead by Larry Persico. Meet at the entrance to Findlay Lake Park(Lake Alice) at 8:00 AM. Bring a scope if you have one. Trip should last about 4 hours. We will walk the south dike to the pump house, explore the woods around the pumphouse and then drive over to the west boat ramp and walk a bit in the woods. When we leave, we can take the back roads to Nueces county and look for Prairie Falcon, Ferruginous Hawk, etc. Dress for all kinds of weather and bring bug spray just in case. Water and a snack should suffice.

Join us on January 18th, 2025, as Padre Island National Seashore ranger Shelby Bessette guides us through park trails and sundry habitats to see the amazing bird life that the park has to offer.

The trip will start at the Grasslands Nature Trail just on the other side of the entrance (fee) station ($10/vehicle). Focus species are grassland sparrows and possibly sandhill cranes. The trip will move to the Bird Island Basin day-use area and target species are shorebirds, gulls, etc. Arrive at 7:30 AM. Walk starts at 7:45 AM.

Join us at the South Texas Botanical Gardens in the education building at 7 PM for our January 2025 meeting.

Our guest speaker will be Anna Stalcup talking about birding in the frigid reaches of Antarctica.

Join us at the South Texas Botanical Gardens in the Education Building from 7 PM to 9 PM as we meet for the last time in 2024.

Dr. Daniel Scognamillo of the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute will talk about wildcat research programs in the institute.

On this field trip we target any rare birds that are being seen in the Rio Grande Valley this winter.

Terry Little will talk about birding in the Pacific Northwest during November’s monthly meeting.

As usual, we meet at the South Texas Botanical Gardens at 7 PM to 9PM in the education building.

The group will meet between 8:00 AM and 8:15 AM at the Mitchell Lake Audubon Center parking lot, 10750 Pleasanton Rd., San Antonio, TX 78221. There is a $5/person entrance fee in the Audubon building and National Audubon Society members receive a $2 discount. The entrance is under construction, but there will be a sign indicating where to turn in from Pleasanton Rd. (See directions below.) Once you enter the property, continue straight past the construction area and you will find the parking lot.
 

Birding will begin promptly at 8:15 AM and we will carpool around the property on the driving loop, which should be open, driving around the Bird Pond and back to Mitchell Lake.

Expect Vermilion Flycatcher, Bewick's Wren, Pyrrhuloxia, some shorebirds and waterfowl, and maybe even Audubon's Oriole.

DRIVING DIRECTIONS:  The driving time is just over 2 hours. Take IH-37 north toward San Antonio. Take exit 133 to IH-410 West. Take exit 46 toward Moursland Rd. and turn left on Moursland Rd, which merges into Pleasanton Rd.  Follow Pleasanton Rd. 2.5 miles. Mitchell Lake is on the left.
 

 If you are running late, text or call Liam Wolff at (706) 607-0229 to join up with the group.
 

If there is time and interest, we can travel the ~30 miles to Government Canyon State Natural Area ($6 entrance) where we will search for Hill Country birds like Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay, Canyon Wren, and Zone-tailed Hawk. We will take a vote once we finish up at Mitchell Lake.

Sara Jose of TPWD’s Texas WILD Project, Leslie Albrecht of Oso Bay Wetlands Preserve and Education Center, and Kim Ogden of the Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program will join us to talk about wildlife education programs in the Coastal Bend.

Explore birding hotspots Rose Hill Memorial Park and Blucher Park as we seek out warblers in challenging fall plumage, empids galore, and any other transient birds we can lay our eyes on.

Meet at 8 am at the main entrance to Blucher Park on Carrizo Street.  (Take Kinney or Blucher to Carrizo as there is a lot construction on Comanche.)  After looking for migrant songbirds at Blucher, we will move on to Rose Hill Cemetery. 

This will be a half-day trip.  Bring snacks, bug spray and plenty of water. 

Larry Jordan will lead the first Audubon Outdoor Club field trip of the season on Saturday, Sept. 14 to search for migrating songbirds.  Please contact him if you need more information at lawrencemjordan@hotmail.com or 361-443-0744.

Meet at 6PM at the Hazel Bazemore Park Hawkwatch Platform.

Bring a meal to share as well as dishes, chairs, and utensils for yourself and your party. Don’t forget spare tupperwares to take home any leftovers!

After our meal, we will have a short business meeting.

It’s picnic time! Join us at 6PM at the Hazel Bazmore Park hawkwatch platform as we gather for our June meeting. Bring a dish, a chair, and your own plates and utensils as we share a meal outdoors together during our monthly meeting.

Join us at 7pm at the South Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center as we gather for our monthly meeting. There will be no speaker this month. Instead, our members will bring a flashdrive with a collection of their favorite bird photos to showcase their photography.