December Morning Bird Walk

 

Talk & Tour: Bird Walk

The cooler months are still a great time to find a variety of birds, especially here in Tampa Bay! Come spend the morning looking & listening for the various birds that can be found at Heartwood. This is open to all experience levels. Bring your binoculars if you have some.

 

Talk & Tour HOST:

 

Mary KeithMary Keith has been birding most of her life. She grew up in rural Pennsylvania where most weekends were spent in the state parks and woods. She has lived and birded in Florida since 1992. Her degrees have nothing to do with birds (Chemistry and Food Science), but they have supported a life of work around the world where she managed to watch birds as well. She is retired from the University of Florida Extension Service and now has more time to lead bird walks for the Tampa Audubon Society, watch birds, monitor eagle nests and wading bird colonies, count Florida Scrub Jays, help organize the Florida Birding and Nature Festival, and participate in Christmas Bird Counts.  She is currently serving as the President of the Tampa Audubon Society.

 

 

Location: 
HEARTWOOD PRESERVE
4100 Starkey Blvd., Trinity 34655
Cost of Event: 
FREE

To follow COVID-19 guidelines, group size is limited and pre-registration is required by 4pm the day prior to an event.  To register, contact Samantha: (727) 376-5111 OR admin@HeartwoodPreserve.com

Wear: Wear lightweight clothing that offers protection from the sun, closed-toe shoes & insect repellant

 

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Where Have All the Cattle Gone? (off site event)

 

February 2, 2019

11:00 AM

Hosted by the West Pasco Audubon Society

Held at: Starkey Environmental Education Center, Jay B. Starkey Wilderness Park

Where Have All the Cattle Gone?

Laura Starkey is a daughter of Marsha and Jay B Starkey, Jr. and granddaughter of Jay B Starkey, Sr., the namesake of the Jay B Starkey Wilderness Park. At our March meeting, she will share with us the history of her family and the cattle ranch where she grew up, the majority of which is now the JBSWP, in a once-rural Odessa. She will talk about the formation of the Starkey Wilderness Park and how her generation of the family has faced the realities and challenges of being ranch landowners in one of the fastest developing urban regions of Florida. 

 

Speaker: Laura Starkey

For more information please contact: jmike65@gmail.com

(West Pasco Audubon Society, Inc.)

Click here for West Pasco Audubon Programs and Field Trips information

10500 Wilderness Park Boulevard
New Port Richey, FL 34655