September 2019
2nd Saturday Bird Walk
Bring your binoculars and discover the birds that visit and live in Chisholm Creek Park. No birding experience is needed. Expect 1–2 miles of walking on paved paths. The walk will last about 90 minutes. Meet at the Great Plains Nature Center parking lot.
Find out more »Quivira National Wildlife Refuge & Cheyenne Bottoms Field Trip
Meet at the Quivira National Wildlife Refuge headquarters and bring a lunch. This is prime migration time for shorebirds at these nationally renowned locations. Contact the leader for carpool information.
Find out more »October 2019
2nd Saturday Bird Walk
Bring your binoculars and discover the birds that visit and live in Chisholm Creek Park. No birding experience is needed. Expect 1–2 miles of walking on paved paths. The walk will last about 90 minutes. Meet at the Great Plains Nature Center parking lot.
Find out more »Chisholm Creek Park Clean Up
Join us after the second Saturday bird walk to collect trash and keep our adopted park looking nice. Bring gloves, we’ll provide trash bags, along with coffee and donuts. Meet in the Great Plains Nature Center parking lot.
Find out more »Fall Birding in the Cross Timbers
Meet at the Dillon's parking lot at Kellogg and Andover Road, where we will consolidate the number of vehicles. Plan to depart at 6:45 a.m. This trip will wander through the scenic Cross Timbers region, visiting Fall River and Toronto Reservoirs. Expect a good variety of waterfowl, gulls, shorebirds, raptors and songbirds. Bring lunch as this trip will take up the majority of the daylight hours. A State Park Permit will be needed for each vehicle.
Find out more »November 2019
Cranes and Geese at Quivira National Wildlife Refuge
Quivira hosts tens of thousands of Sandhill Cranes and hundreds of thousands of geese in late fall. Meet at Quivira headquarters. We will take a leisurely drive to the Big Salt Marsh to see the spectacle of these birds coming in to roost. If we are lucky there may be a Whooping Crane, too. Of course we will be looking at all the other shorebirds and waterfowl along the way.
Find out more »2nd Saturday Bird Walk
Bring your binoculars and discover the birds that visit and live in Chisholm Creek Park. No birding experience is needed. Expect 1–2 miles of walking on paved paths. The walk will last about 90 minutes. Meet at the Great Plains Nature Center parking lot.
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