Title: Waugh Bridge Bat Colony Pontoon Boat TourLocation: Downtown Houston’s Sabine PromenadeLink out: Click hereDescription: Guests on these tours will enjoy an amazing view of the bats’ dusk emergence from our boat on the bayou’s waters. Over 250,000 bats call Waugh Bridge home. You will spend the evening viewing and learning more about these magnificent flying mammals that share the…
Smith Point Hawk Watch. This year, the Gulf Coast Bird Observatory will be conducting the annual hawk watch at Smith Point with volunteers this year instead of paid hawk watchers. GCBO will focus on Swallow-tailed Kites, a priority species in Texas. In order to ensure GCBO captures the bulk of Swallow-tailed Kite migration, the count will begin on August 1st…
Featured $1.5M project to increase salt water flow to NOAA (Chris Paschenko – The Galveston Daily News, 08/03/2011) Galveston beaches are undergoing construction as part of a $1.5 million project to help quadruple the amount of salt water being pumped to the National Marine Fisheries Service. The project will allow the fisheries service to fill about 150,000 gallons of seawater…