HAS Field Trip to Katy Prarie

Title: HAS Field Trip to Katy Prarie
Location: Katy Prairie
Event Link: Click here
Description: Participants, please check the HAS Website for any last minute changes. Sign-up instructions found in guidelines at link above.

Guide: Bob Honig
Leave the hot concrete of the city behind and spend a few hours on the Katy Prairie only an hour or so west of Houston, where summer evenings can be very comfortable. This is the third consecutive year that HAS will visit the Katy Prairie on Independence Day weekend. We’ll explore grasslands, wetlands, and tree lines to observe the diversity of life on the prairie – on properties owned by the Katy Prairie Conservancy, which has helped protect almost 18,000 acres in west Harris County and east Waller County. We hope to see a variety of birds (possibly Painted Buntings and Orchard Orioles), butterflies visiting flowers, and dragonflies cruising over ponds. At sunset we plan to be near a wetland where thousands of White-faced Ibis, as well as other waterbirds, may settle in to roost for the night; and we hope to be treated to a chorus of frogs and toads, insects, displaying Common Nighthawks, and maybe even King Rails and Least Bitterns.

Start Time: 17:00
Date: 2010-07-03
End Time: 21:00