So there they were, four girls around the age of fourteen, with long, shiny hair and braces on their teeth. The police department is famous Houston-wide for enforcing speed limits with a vengeance. It has playgrounds and parks with secure, nontoxic equipment. Its schools are well funded and well appointed. Rice University professors and Texas Medical Center doctors live there because of its proximity to both places so do many successful lawyers. West U is a prosperous place-the median household income is well over $200,000 a year-but it isn’t as flashy as wealthy neighborhoods like River Oaks or Memorial it’s an orderly quarter where older brick bungalows and modest two-story colonials reside in peace alongside grand-but not too grand-new construction. They were coming from a church group meeting. It was March 31, 2018, the Saturday before Easter. A place where four girls just entering their teens could head out for ice cream and cookies, unaccompanied, to a spot called Tiny’s Milk & Cookies. Its unofficial motto is “The Neighborhood City,” and on a sweet spring night that was blessedly cool and clear, with mature live oaks spreading their protective branches over the tidy streets and the azaleas blooming in a riot of coral, fuchsia, and the whitest white, that’s what it seemed to be: a cozy, friendly oasis in the middle of a big, complicated metropolis. Register for the beginner’s bird walk from 9 to 11:30 a.m.It’s hard to imagine a safer space in Houston than West University Place. Join Travis Audubon at Hornsby Bend, Austin’s premier birding spot. World Migratory Bird Day, Saturday, May 14. Walk part of the Brushy Creek Regional Trail in search of thrushes, warblers and resident birds. Most field trips fill quickly, and most require registration.īeginners Bird Walk at Champions Park, Saturday, May 7, 8 a.m. Beginners are welcome on all field trips.Get outdoors with a knowledgeable leader and learn more about our beautiful Austin-area birds. Upcoming Travis Audubon Events Check the Travis Audubon events calendar for details on field trips, classes and other events.
Learn more at Travis Audubon’s Lights Out Texas. You’ll be protecting birds while also saving money on energy.
Ask your office building management to shut off their lights at night, too. through June 15, but especially during peak migration from April 22-May 12.Please shut off porch, garage and landscape lighting, use motion sensors so lights are on only when needed, and close your curtains and shades. Turn off all nonessential indoor and outdoor lighting from 11 p.m. Don’t let Texas be their final destination! They face daunting challenges, and we can help. Texas is on a major flyway for birds both flying across the Gulf of Mexico and flying around the Gulf to get to their summer homes. There’s a new feature called the Migration Dashboard that gives estimates of the number of birds in the air on any given night, for your state or county. You can even check to see whether birds will be migrating over Austin in low, medium or high densities with the local migration alert feature. If you want to know exactly how many birds might be in the air, night by night during migration, check BirdCast, a collaborative effort to understand and predict bird movements based on weather radar surveillance. It’s amazing how millions of birds fly from their winter homes in Central and South America each year to breed in the U.S. Looking at their bird lists will help you begin to learn the birds of the area. Try this tool from eBird, run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, to see what parks close to you are designated birding hotspots.
There are many places to around Austin to go for a walk during May migration to see if you can spot brightly colored birds. Shelter in the form of shrubs, vine tangles, native grasses and low branches give them a sense of security as they preen after bathing. Water is critical for feather care, and creek and pond edges that allow birds to approach unseen to access the water are very popular with birds. They are looking for food - insects and spiders fill that bill for many of them. Songbirds usually migrate at night, and drop down as dawn comes. Where can you find these and other migrants during May? Parks and greenbelts around town, especially those that have a natural water source, appeal to migrants. Western Kingbird – COURTESY: The Online Zoo
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