Presented by Evalyn Bemis
Wednesday, April 8, 2026 — 7:00 p.m.
Unitarian Universalist Church, 107 W. Barcelona Rd, Santa Fe

Between Refugio and Goliad, Texas, a 660,000-acre private ranch is actively cooperating with The Nature Conservancy to preserve the Attwater’s Prairie Chicken by means of a captive breeding program. Their success has resulted in over 100 of these highly endangered birds now successfully breeding on their own. We start at this site and another TNC property on the coast near Corpus Christi, seeing numerous herons, migratory birds and a very rare Aplomado Falcon, before proceeding up the coast to Aransas NWR, Brazoria NWR, and onto the Bolivar Peninsula. We end with a day at High Island and Anahuac NWR before flying home from Houston.

Evalyn says: “I have been an avid birder since my first Christmas bird count in Santa Fe 30+ years ago, when I saw a flicker through a pair of binoculars and was blown away by its many splendored plumage. I have traveled the world to find birds (and bees and butterflies and all the things that go with them) while hauling around an enormous lens for photographing them.”