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
Meeting Alert! We are not canceling due to the weather, but we are making the program available on Zoom. Here is the link to Zoom:Topic: Wichita Audubon Society meetingTime: Feb 18, 2025 7 PM Central Time (US and Canada)Join Zoom Meetinghttps://hutchcc.zoom.us/j/81462851492?pwd=oTMNdanV48tYONm2atdr9WfnkueSu8.1Meeting ID: 814 6285 1492Passcode: 965609Note the passcode, you will need it to join the …
The weather looks really grim - low temperatures and all the water frozen. We have decided it would not be fun to drive around all afternoon in the snow looking at frozen lakes and trees.
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
American Woodcock engage in a unique courtship display on early spring evenings. We’ll try to catch sight of them just as it gets dark. Note that this is WEDNESDAY to avoid the crowds of walkers in the park. Meet in the GPNC parking lot.
Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) (formerly Squaw Creek NWR) is located in northwest Missouri near Mound City. It is an Internationally Important Bird Area (IBA.) During the fall and winter, as many as 4,000 Trumpeter Swans, 400 Bald Eagles have been spotted. Our field trip will be by auto on the 10-mile, one-way driving …
Chasing America’s Raptors – presented by Scott Harris – birder, photographer, and author. Scott Harris spent 17 months, chasing 53 Raptors across 34 states—his version of a Raptor Big Year. RaptorQuest is about his adventures, misadventures, successes and failures. From -36 degree days, to ones over 100 degrees, to just getting on the bird just …
Due to the predicted rain on Saturday we have decided to postpone until Sunday. We will explore the scenic Cross Timbers region in search of early spring warblers and other migrants. Meet at the Dillon’s parking lot at Andover Rd and US 400 and carpool from there. Bring a lunch!
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
Masked Bobwhite Recovery Program at the Sutton Avian Research Center, presented by Donald Wolfe, Jr. – Senior biologist at George Miksch Sutton Center for Avian Science. Donald Wolfe will speak on the Sutton Avian Research Center Masked Bobwhite breeding and recovery effort, and also about Northern Bobwhite (why captive breeding/releases are not a good plan …