September 27-29, 2007
White Memorial Park and Winnie, TX
Headquarters White Memorial Park, Chambers County Banquet Saturday Night Keynote Speaker Bill Clark
Fall Migration on the Upper Texas Coast
Join us for the Smith Point Hawk Watch and TOS’s Sabine Woods, Hooks Woods, and Edna Crawford Sanctuaries, plus other gems of the Upper Texas Coast. Registration for the Gulf Coast Bird Observatory Hawk Watch Workshop includes the evening programs and banquest
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All Activities at White Memorial Park (From I-10: TX 61 S .1 mile)
Thursday September 27
12 pm to 7 pm Check-in White Memorial Park
7 pm Evening Program White Memorial Park
Friday September 28
6 am to 8 am Field Trip Departures (most from Winnie)
2 pm to 7 pm Check-in White Memorial Park
7 pm Evening Program White Memorial Park, Recent Bird Management Projects at Anahuac NWR
Saturday September 29
6 am to 8 am Field Trip Departures (most from Winnie)
6 pm to 7 pm Reception White Memorial Park (beer, wine, and soft drinks)
7 pm Banquet and Speaker, White Memorial Park, Keynote Speaker, Bill ClarK
Lodging Available at the following Inns:
Americans Best Value Inn, 25941 I-10, Hankamer, TX 77560, Phone: 409-374-2424 (closest to White Memorial Park)
Holiday Inn Express, 14932 F M 1663, Winnie, TX 77665 409-296-2866
Winnie Inn and Suites, 205 Spur 5 Highway 124 Winnie, TX 77665 409-296-2947
Quality Inn Winnie, 46318 IH 10 East, Winnie, TX 409-296-9292
Studio 6 Winnie, IH10 at FM 1663, Exit #829, 134 Spur 5 Winnie, TX 77665, 409-296-3611
Field Trips
Bolivar Peninsula Shorebirds: Locations will depend on habitat at the time but could include Anahuac NWR and fields nearby in addition to the world famous Bolivar Flats. Focus will be on migrant and wintering shorebirds which should include Piping & Snowy Plovers, Marbled Godwit and many peeps along with egrets, herons, gulls and terns
TNC Roy E. Larsen Sandyland This beautiful sanctuary near Silsbee is home to Longleaf Pine and riparian habitats along Village Creek. Target birds will include woodpeckers including Hairy, Brown-headed Nuthatch, Fish Crow and perhaps even some migrants.
Smith Point Hawk Watch & Candy Abshier WMA: Smith Point funnels not only hawks but many passerine migrants as well. One of the best spots in the state to park your lawn chair and watch the migration happen. Likely species include Magnificent Frigatebird, swallows, passerines, Sharp-shinned and Cooper’s, and Broad-winged Hawks and falcons..
Anahuac NWR: This refuge hosts spectacular freshwater and saltwater marshes. Target birds will include early ducks, herons and egrets, King and Clapper Rail, shorebirds, Seaside Sparrow and hopefully the few clumps of trees on the refuge will be hosting passerine migrants.
High Island Sanctuaries: Here is your chance to visit T.O.S.’s Mary Edna Crawford and Hooks’Woods sanctuaries. Focus will be on migrant songbirds which typically include a wide variety of warblers (Black-throated Blue Warbler if we are lucky), buntings, tanagers and grosbeaks.
Trinity River NWR: This 3100-acre refuge is not as well known as some of Texas’ other NWRs but is home to extensive bottomland forest. The Swallow-tailed Kites will have moved on, but we should still see many herons & egrets, bottomland hardwood residents and raptors and passerines migrating down the river corridor.
Sabine Woods and Sabine Pass: This area needs no introduction among East Texas birders. Fortunately, for us it catches migrants in the fall as well as spring. Passerine migrants will be the focus, but water birds at the nearby McFadden NWR and Sea Rim SP will add to the mix.
Wallisville Area: This underbirded area includes Cedar Hill Park (Lake Charlotte), JJ Mayes Wildlife Trace and Lake Anahuac. Targets species include waders at the Trinity River Mouth Waterbird Rookery, Bald Eagle, Barred Owl and migrant passerines.
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