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Monday, April 21
Join birding expert Cin-Ty Lee and retired NDC Head Naturalist Mary Ann Beauchemin on a day trip along the upper Texas coast during the 2025 spring migration.
For a change we will bird the Galveston and Quintana areas this year. We will look for migrating song birds at a few stops including LaFitte’s Cove and the Quintana Neotropical Bird Sanctuary. We will also search for shorebirds and waders which will be staging in large numbers as they prepare to head north at Bryan Beach and perhaps a stop in Galveston as well.
This trip is good for beginners and advanced birders as there will be something for everyone. Adults and families with children age 7 and up are welcome.
Additional trip details, including meeting points and times, will be emailed to all registered participants.
Advance registration required.
Cost: $75 member / $95 non-member
Note: entrance to High Island requires an $8/person Sanctuary Day Pass OR is free with Audubon Sanctuaries Season Pass.
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 is the recently retired Senior Naturalist at the Nature Discovery Center where she has taught classes, camps and workshops for children, adults and teachers, as well as leading bird and nature walks for over 30 years. She also volunteers for the Houston Audubon Society leading the Willow Waterhole Bird Survey and the Native Plant Society of Houston working with their Native Landscaping for Birds classes.
