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🦆 Chapter Field Trip to Corpus Christi, Rockport Beach, and Port Aransas

By: Chapter Members — Chapter members visited Corpus Christi and surrounding areas in March 2025 for the annual chapter field trip. They visited the Port Aransas Nature Preserve, Leonbelle Turnbull… Read More →

May 15, 2025

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🤝 Reflections on the Annual Meeting 2024

By: Peggy Tolboom — When it is time for the annual meeting, I am at my computer when registration begins so I can sign up for the field trips. For… Read More →

May 14, 2025

book jacket for The Hidden Lives of Owls.
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📖 Book Report: The Hidden Lives of Owls

By: Bill Hopkins “For more than sixty-seven million years, owls have roamed the earth, flying, hunting, and raising their families in the dark.” Leigh Calvez is a writer and naturalist… Read More →

February 3, 2025

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🍃 Celebrating Art, Wellness, and Nature: The March 2025 GROW Festival at Clark Gardens Botanical Park 

By: Crystal Gonzalez (Grider) Celebrating Art, Wellness, and Nature:  The March 2025 GROW Festival at Clark Gardens Botanical Park  Clark Gardens Botanical Park, located in Mineral Wells Texas, will host… Read More →

January 11, 2025

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Wrapping Up the 125th Audubon Christmas Bird Count 2024

By: Dayna Inbody   December 14, 2024 Prairie Oaks Chapter of the Texas Master Naturalist program completed its seventh year contributing to the Audubon Christmas Bird Count (CBC). This is an approved … Read More →

January 1, 2025

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🐦 Fueling up for a long flight: Lights Out Texas

Spring Update and Fall Migration Alert 2024 For those of us that follow the Lights Out Texas program, here is an update from the Trinity River Audubon Center September 2024… Read More →

September 5, 2024

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🪞 Reflections on our Chapter Trip to the Davis Mountains

Contributions by Marsha Stephens, Dayna Inbody, Chris Inbody, Dave Moore, Wendy Moore, & Peggy Tolboom — In May, 20 members of the Prairie Oaks chapter traveled to the Davis Mountains… Read More →

June 2, 2024

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Join a Team for the Christmas Bird Count 2024

Hello birding friends,   Getting to the end of the year and needing some more volunteer hours to hit your  goal for 2024? Any birders that just have been waiting to… Read More →

June 2, 2024

Red-tailed Hawk. Photo by Wendy Moore.
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Prairie Oaks 6th Year Participating in the 124th Audubon Christmas Bird Count 2023

By: Dayna Inbody December 16, 2023 The Prairie Oaks Chapter of the Texas Master Naturalist program completed its sixth year contributing to the Audubon Christmas Bird Count (CBC). This is… Read More →

February 19, 2024

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🪩 Reflections on the 2023 Annual Meeting

Below are contributions from several of our chapter members about their experience at the Texas Master Naturalist Annual Meeting held in McAllen October 12 – 15, 2023. To A State… Read More →

December 20, 2023

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