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.

Meet at the Carrizo St. side of Blucher Park at 8AM each Saturday and Sunday in April for a guided bird walk in search of migrating songbirds.

Meet at the Carrizo St. side of Blucher Park at 8AM each Saturday and Sunday in April for a guided bird walk in search of migrating songbirds.

Meet at the Carrizo St. side of Blucher Park at 8AM each Saturday and Sunday in April for a guided bird walk in search of migrating songbirds.

Meet at the Carrizo St. side of Blucher Park at 8AM each Saturday and Sunday in April for a guided bird walk in search of migrating songbirds.

Meet at the Carrizo St. side of Blucher Park at 8AM each Saturday and Sunday in April for a guided bird walk in search of migrating songbirds.

Meet at the Carrizo St. side of Blucher Park at 8AM each Saturday and Sunday in April for a guided bird walk in search of migrating songbirds.

Join us at 7pm at the Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi as we gather for our monthly meeting. We will host our scholarship award recipients as our speakers. Meeting will be in Room 127.

Meet at the Carrizo St. side of Blucher Park at 8AM each Saturday and Sunday in April for a guided bird walk in search of migrating songbirds.

Meet at the Carrizo St. side of Blucher Park at 8AM each Saturday and Sunday in April for a guided bird walk in search of migrating songbirds.

We meet at the South Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center at 7PM to learn about Bachman’s Sparrow ecology in Texas from AOC member Liam Wolff.

Duval County (La Rosita and San Diego Creek)

We will meet at 6:45 a.m. at the Sunoco station at the corner of FM 1889 and Northwest Blvd. about 3 miles west of Five Points, to carpool about 45 minutes to our first stop in San Diego where we will walk the creek in search of woodland migrants and resident species.

Then we'll move on to the unincorporated town of La Rosita between San Diego and Freer. There should be Curve-billed Thrashers, Pyrrhuloxia, Black-throated Sparrows and other desert dwellers, as well as the possibility for other species that love a quiet country habitat.

The trip will end by lunch time.  Minimal walking.

Bring snacks and water, and dress for the weather.

Leader:  Judy Kestner, 361-701-1962. jkestner@stx.rr.com

Located a little over halfway between Corpus Christi and San Antonio, Choke Canyon State Park is an excellent locale for birding, with thousands of ducks and other waterfowl and plenty of songbirds too, such as Audubon’s Oriole. One winter, a Spotted Rail and Hook-billed Kite were present here. We may not see anything that rare, but you never know what you may find!

Meet at 8:00 AM by the restrooms on the southeast side of the park. After passing through the entrance gate ($5 fee), take a right at the first T-intersection followed immediately by another right. This road will lead you to the parking lot by the restrooms. We will bird around the freshwater pond here and the nearby trails. Afterwards, we can check the reservoir for more waterfowl.

Liam Wolff leads.

Join us at the South Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center at 7PM to hear a recap of the 2023 Christmas Bird Count in the Coastal Bend from Larry Jordan and others.

Larry Jordan leads the group across the Encinal Peninsula in search of waterfowl and songbird at ponds across Flour Bluff and at the AOC’s own Held-Moran Nature Sanctuary. Further details to come.

We will meet at the main entrance to the Held-Moran Sanctuary at 8:00 am.  This is on Mediterranean Drive near the intersection with Samoa.  We will spend some time at the sanctuary and then look at some other sites in Flour Bluff including the pond on Caribbean and the Judith Reader Pond.  This will be a half-day trip, so bring water, snacks and bug spray.

Coastal Bends Bays and Estuaries has graciously offered to host a field trip to the Nueces Delta Preserve near Portland on Jan 27th. This preserve has limited visitor access so this is an excellent opportunity to see an amazing place full of birds and other wildlife.

Further details to come!

Brent Ortego leads the group around the best hotspots in the Victoria, Texas area.

Meet at Texas Zoo at 7:30 AM. Drive to Fox Bend and walk along the river looking for Limpkin and other species of interest.  Drive to restroom at exit. Drive to Duck Pond looking for Least Grebe. Drive along river to Rose Garden area for overlook of park and city. Drive to Invista Wetlands for waterbirds. Drive to Brent Ortego's house for hummingbirds.

Update: lunch will no longer be provided so please plan accordingly and bring a lunch and snacks.

Join us at the South Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center at 7PM to hear from Rostam Mirzadi about his Ph.D. research focused on the usage of drones as a novel method of monitoring colonial nesting waterbirds.

Join us in December for our monthly AOC meeting. We meet at 7PM at the South Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center. Eric Ehrlich will present about the Aplomado Falcon program at Mustang Island State Park.