Join us at 7 PM at the South Texas Botanical Gardens in the education room as we hear from Dania Sanchez of the Golden Triangle Audubon Society about her 2024 Big Year in Texas.

Dania Sanchez is a Texas wildlife photographer and birder on a mission to express her appreciation for birds and wildlife through her work. Her educational background from Del Mar College, Lamar State College Port Arthur and Lamar University provided her with skills to capture nature and understand the impact that technology has on historical and conservancy efforts. She currently serves as President of Golden Triangle Audubon Society and a volunteer for Texas Ornithological Society's Sabine Woods.

Through observation, visual storytelling and advocacy she hopes to spread awareness of the birds and wildlife of many areas in Texas specially the Golden Triangle where she resides. Dania believes that with the help of visibility and education our current and future generations can learn a new appreciation for birds and how they can improve quality of life. You can see her work through tourism brochures, social media, publications, travelogues and at her public speaking events. 

In 2024 Dania and her fiance Gregory Reynolds embarked on a wild adventure called the Texas Big Year resulting with Dania observing 512 species and Gregory with 508 putting them on the 1st and 2nd place lead for the year in Texas. Dania now holds the number 1 female spot for most species seen for Texas in a year. 

Tom Langschied leads a field trip around the hotspots and countryside of Kleberg County. Get ready for Klebiggies!

We will meet at Love’s Truck Stop (1451 US 77 frontage road) at 7:30 am.  From there we will head west to a couple stops on the Texas A&M University - Kingsville campus to look for various winter residents and resident birds that can often be found there.  Included in this university visit will be a stop at the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Center to explore the A. E. Leonard Family Native Plant Garden.  This garden with its diverse native plantings attracts a nice assortment of birds. 

After that we will make stops at the King Ranch Visitor Center grounds and then head to Dick Kleberg Park.  We will finish out the morning by heading down to Kaufer Hubert county park and the waterbirds that can be found there. 

All stops will be slow paced, short walks.  Restrooms will be available at most birding stops. This tour will end at approximately 11:30.

Bring water, snacks and might as well tote along bug spray just to be fully prepared!

Questions?  Tom Langschied can be reached at 361-522-784. 

Join Susan Foster in Rockport for another great AOC field trip.

Field trip time is 8:00-12:00. We will visit several Aransas Pathways locations.

Meet the group at corner of Henderson and Business 35 in the Bealls parking lot where we can carpool.

Please let Susan know if you plan on attending: idratherbebirding@gmail.com.  The effort is easy/moderate. Lunch will be on your own, and Susan will recommend some local restaurants if you prefer.

Join us at the South Texas Botanical Garden education building at 7 PM for our November 2025 meeting. Alex Sharp of Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program will present on Black Skimmer research that the organization is working on.

We will meet at 10 AM at the Whitecap North Padre Island headquarters at the intersection of Compass St. and Commodores Dr, across from the Donut Palace. The Whitecap NPI personnel will take us onto their property they are developing into a nature sanctuary with native plants and fresh water. Wrap up by noon. Bathrooms are available and the pace is undemanding. The weather will be great!

Please RSVP by letting Liam Wolff know as soon as possible. (706) 607-0229 or liamgwolff@gmail.com

Join us at the South Texas Botanical Garden education building at 7 PM for our October 2025 meeting. Dave Wolf, a retired guide for Victor Emanuel Nature Tours will give a birding travelogue of his adventures in Kenya in years past.

Scott Holt leads a tour around one of the best coastal towns for birding, anywhere!

We will meet at the Turnbull Birding Center parking lot at 7:30. The difficulty level is “easy”. We will make slow paced, short walks at several Port A hotspots on level terrain. We will probably make one extended walk on the South Trail boardwalk (1.5-2 mile round trip) but it is an out-and-back walk so folks who don’t want to walk can wait at a good birding location for the group to return. Restrooms (primarily port-a-potty type) are available at several (but not all) stops.

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.