FeatherFest

We're off to Galveston for the 8th Annual FeatherFest...

Today

Marquee Field Trip:
Exploring Pelican Island

Price: $40

Date: Thursday, April 8 / Friday, April 9

Time: 1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Thursday Field Expert: Jim Stevenson
Friday Field Experts: Don Freiday, Dr. Dick Peake, Skip Almoney

Originally a small shifting sand bar which protected Galveston’s fledgling port, Pelican Island is now an enlarged area of maturing, vegetated dredge spoil. It provides a wide range of habitats including extensive mud flats for sandpipers, avocets, stilts, etc.; bushy areas for Neotropic songbirds, sparrows, etc.; fresh water ponds for waterfowl; and open grassy areas for prairie birds and raptors. The mud flats offer particularly good viewing at the end of the afternoon. Use of the area is not well controlled, parts of it are not too “tidy” and one road will be bumpy, but the birding is usually fine.

Tomorrow

Marquee Field Trip:
West Isle Marsh and Shorebirds

Price: $45

Date: Friday, April 9 / Saturday, April 10
Time: 7:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Field Expert: Jim Stevenson

Date: Sunday, April 11
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 Noon
Field Experts: Jim Stevenson and Don Freiday

This morning field trip is conducted by bus with frequent stops for shorebirds, waders and other surprises, all over the productive west end of Galveston Island. At least seventy species should be seen, comprised of sandpipers and some plovers, herons, egrets, ibis, spoonbills, gulls, terns, ducks and much more. In a few places, guests will pile out of the van and “scope” out large flocks.