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October 14, 2006
The second beginner/new member trip gave 13 participants the chance to experience woodland birding in the Outdoor Nature Club’s Little Thicket Nature Sanctuary on a very pleasant morning. It was the first time many of the participants had visited the Little Thicket Nature Sanctuary and I believe the participants were impressed with how nice the Little Thicket Nature Sanctuary is and by how good of a job the Outdoor Nature Club is doing of managing the sanctuary. As for the birding it was your typical day of woodland birding a few birds here and a few birds there mostly heard with a few visuals. This emphasis for this trip was that birding is more then just about the birds it is about the beautiful places birding takes you to. We totaled 12 species for the trip with the highlight being a Hairy Woodpecker, which I believe was a life bird for most of the participants. In the same spot and actually on the same tree that the Hairy Woodpecker was seen on we also observed several Downy Woodpeckers, a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, and a Red-bellied Woodpecker. It was quite a spectacle to have four woodpecker species on one tree and great for comparisons as well. A big thanks goes to Aaron Stoley for assisting me with leading this trip and showing us around the Little Thicket Nature Sanctuary.
Participants: Adam Wood, John Scheider, Aaron Stoley, Fred Cambell, Janiece West, Margret and Bob Simmons, Dennis Vollmar, Maricarmen Razones, Laurie Sines, Jerry Stanislav, Nancy Hannan, and Kay Piper.
~ Adam Wood, OG Field Trip Coordinator, birdman_570@yahoo.com, 713-515-1692 |
