A Family Friendly Birding Field Trip with Cin-Ty Lee and Mary Ann Beauchemin
Note: This trip is good for beginning birders as well as advanced birders, as there will be something for
everyone.
Ages: Adults and families with children ages 7 and up are welcome. All children must be registered attendees and be
accompanied by a registered adult attendee.
Additional trip details, including meeting points and times, will be emailed to all registered participants.
Cost: $75 member / $95 non-member
Advance registration required. Registration link below.
Birding Bolivar Flats & Anahuac: The Return of the Waders
Sunday, October 22
Join us on a trip to see the shorebirds and waterfowl that have returned from the north. Houston Audubon’s
Bolivar Flats and the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge are two of the most famous migratory stopover spots in
the country. We should see thousands of shorebirds on the Bolivar Flats. Early October is a good time for
migrating passerines as well, and we will stop by small patches of trees in search of buntings, sparrows and
immature warblers. At Anahuac, we will be treated to waders and waterfowl.
Meet Your Birding Guides
Cin-Ty Lee is a professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Rice University, where he teaches a wide variety of courses ranging from geology to bird biology. He spends much of his spare time studying, photographing and painting birds and other wildlife. He has written numerous articles on bird identification, focusing on some of the more difficult bird groups, such as loons, immature orioles, pewees, pipits, dowitchers, and recently, Empidonax flycatchers.
Mary Ann Beauchemin retired as the Nature Discovery Center’s Senior Staff Naturalist, but she continues to volunteer her time and talents guiding birding activities for the Center. She is an avid birder with decades of experience birding (and guiding) throughout the Greater Houston Area, along the Texas coast, and beyond.
