Category: News and Events

  • April Calendar, 2008

    Do you know what this wildflower is? Or how about this tree…do you know what it is? Me neither. Until I met Dr. Herb Grover, the most knowledgeable plant person around the Big Country. Dr. Grover, professor of Biology and Environmental Management at Hardin-Simmons University will speak to us on the flora of Taylor County […]

  • Blind Sightings

    Big Country Audubon is pleased to announce that our bird blind at the Abilene State Park is now ready for birders, wildlife watchers, and birds! In September, 2007, the blind was delivered to the State Park. Over the next few months our eager volunteers painted the inside, hung feeders, and constructed a water feature. Immediately […]

  • March 2008 Calendar

    March 6, Thursday, 7pm. General Meeting. Lorie Black, past President of Big Country Audubon Society, will present a program on dragonflies. For the past year Lorie has been studying and photographing the area’s dragonflies and damselflies. She will share her pictures and knowledge of Odonata. Lorie is a native Abilenian and a graduate of ACU […]

  • William L. Hohman to Speak February 7, 2008

    Join us February 7, 2008 for our general meeting when Dr. William L. Hohman, Wildlife Biologist of the Fort Worth USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Services will present a program on Bird Responses to Grassland and Wetland Restorations in the Northern Plains. He’ll focus on restorations accomplished under USDA conservation programs. Dr. Hohman serves as the […]

  • Field Trip: Lake Colorado City, January 19, 2008

    Join us for our field trip to Lake Colorado City State Park, Saturday, January 19, 2008. We will leave from the What-a-Burger at South 1st and Pioneer at 7:30a.m. Come earlier to order breakfast and carpool. Dress for the weather, bring water, snacks, and money for lunch. CCSP charges an entrance fee but several of […]

  • Christmas Social, 2007

    Big Country Audubon had another wonderful Christmas Social this past December, 2007. And like the 2006 social, I got a little inventive on the captions. Thanks to everyone for making 2007 a great year! Pictures are up at Christmas Social 2007. And, did you know Tom, Toni, Carolyn, and WK found THE rarest bird ever […]

  • December 2007 Calendar of Events

    December 6, 2007: Christmas Party! Who: All Big Country Audubon members and their families What: Christmas Party When: Thursday, December 6, at 7:00 p.m. Where: Rose Park Activity Center located at S. 7th and Barrow, Room A Bring: Your favorite finger foods, snacks, and a wrapped gift for the Christmas gift exchange (completely voluntary). Please […]

  • Lynn Barber to Speak November 1, 2007

    Lynn Barber will tell us how she saw 522 bird species in 2005, creating a new Texas Big Year record! She will show pictures of some of the birds seen and the sites visited. During that year, she drove more than 90,000 miles from forest to canyons to grasslands and beaches in her quest to […]

  • General Meeting, October 4, 2007: The Dyess AFB Bluebird Trail

    Join us Thursday evening at 7 p.m., October 4, 2007 to hear Laura Packer talk about the Dyess Air Force Base Eastern Bluebird Nestbox Trail. For the past two years Laura has monitored the nestboxes at Dyess, and she will share her pictures, stories, and data with us. This is the same program she presented […]

  • Annual Meeting a Success!

    Nothing brings a group together like humor. Upon popular demand the Unusual Bird Sightings presentation has been reproduced. Any resemblance to actual persons is strictly accidental. No birds were harmed in the making of this presentation; I don’t know about the people. If you don’t see your likeness here; it is only a matter of […]