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January, 2025 Featherless Flyer

In This Edition:

• Our Second Saturday presentation is entitled The Eastern Bluebird with Kathy Whaley, Saturday, January 11th, 2025
• Read about the refuges Auto Tour and how to enjoy the refuge from the comfort of your car!
• Enjoy our seventh installment of Karen Glenn's Rewilding project
• Learn about the Fire Protection Grant and the changes to the border of the refuge.

December, 2024 Featherless Flyer

In This Edition:

• Our Second Saturday presentation is entitled Venomous Snakes of Hagerman NWR with Dr. Michael Keck, Saturday, December 14, 2024 at 10:00 AM.
• Oceanfront Property in North Texas? Absolutely—but about 100 million years ago! Read all about it in our feature article by Dr. Margaret Avard, BPTMN.
• Enjoy Part VI of our Rewilding Series: Preparing the Habitat for Winter is the next installment of our Rewilding series by Karen Glenn, BPTMN.

November, 2024 Featherless Flyer

In This Edition:

• Enjoy Part V of our Rewilding Series: Rewilding Sticker Hill: Is it Finally Fall?
• The Snow/Ross Geese are on their way!
• Adopt-A-Nestbox is on sale now!  Just in time for Christmas!
• Join us f or Hagerman and YOU: The Healing Power of Nature withLaurie Sheppard, Blackland Prairie Texas Master Naturalist on November 9, 2024.

October, 2024 Featherless Flyer

In This Edition:

This is the time of the year that we invite you to support our local Refuge and its programs. Projects resulting in our beautiful Butterfly Garden, our popular Wildlife Explorer electric tram, renovations to the Big Mineral Creek Recreation Area, and the Education Pavilion are available, thanks in large part to your donations and financial support.  All monies raised from the auction will be reinvested in educational opportunities and programs for both children and adults.

• The Refuge Roundup: Raptor Festival is Saturday, October 3rd! Come and enjoy live raptor presentations from the Blackland Prairie Raptor Center, crafts, story telling, a bird walk, butterfly walk and tram tours. 
• Enjoy the latest of our Rewilding Sticker Hill series entitled: Trying to Succeed at Succession By Karen Glenn, Blackland Prairie Master Naturalist
• Our monthly Second Saturday Presentation: Raptors of Texoma with Dr. Wayne Meyer on Saturday, October 12, 2024 at 10:00 AM in the Visitor Center.
• The Monarchs are migrating! Join us for Butterfly Garden Walks with Garden Docents available to help identify plants and butterflies on Saturdays, October 12th and October 26th, at 10:00 AM.

 September, 2024 Featherless Flyer

In This Edition:

• Enjoy Part III of our Series: Rewilding Sticker Hill-The Fall Bloomers Are Here!
• Bring the family and join the Texas Nature Trackers and Bluestem Master Naturalists for a BioBlitz and Mothing Event on September 7, 2024
• Save the Date!!  Our Refuge Roundup: Birds of Prey Festival is October 12th, with live raptor presentations from the Blackland Prairie Raptor Center
• The Eastern Bluebirds had a great season!  Read our Eastern Bluebird report and learn how you can help next year.

In This Edition:

• Read all about The Honeybee, by Gene and Nancy Cushion, Blackland Prairie Master Naturalist 
• Enjoy a Sequel to last month's feature article entitled Rewilding: What May Grow Without the Mow? by Karen Glenn
• Save the Date! BioBlitz at Hagerman on September 7, 2024
• The Raptors Are Coming!  Don't miss the Refuge Roundup on October 12, 2024

July, 2024 Featherless Flyer

In This Edition:

• Enjoy our feature article entitled: Rewilding Sticker Hill by Karen Glenn, Texas Master Naturalist
• The Raptors are Coming!!  Save the date for the Refuge Roundup on October 12, 2024.  
• Volunteer Help Wanted! The Friends of Hagerman NWR are looking for volunteers to help with webmastering, accounting and the Nature Nook in the Visitor Center.
• See how the Hagerman Bluebirds have been doing so far with the Mid-season Bluebird Update

In This Edition:

• Enjoy our feature article by Renny Gehman entitled Named for a Noise.

• Make a Lady Bug with Puddles' Craft Corner

• Enjoy a Trip to the Refuge with Junior and Advanced Ranger Programs

• Choctaw Cultural Day is May 11th! Join us as we celebrate the heritage of the third-largest Indian Nation in the United States.
• Enjoy our feature article by Kathy Whaley, Refuge Manager: The iNaturalist Community: Connecting People to Nature While Expanding Biodiversity Knowledge
• Nature'Ology Day Camp for ages 10-12 is June 1st.

April, 2024 Featherless Flyer

In This Edition:

• Painted, Indigo and Lazuli Buntings are making their way to North Texas along their migration!  Learn all about them, including how to attract them to your yard. By Linda Micco Richmond. 
• Nature'Ology Day Camp for ages 10-12 is June 1st.

In This Edition:

• Learn about the Crested Caracara, and how sightings have increased over the years--the Bird Census Van saw one on Tuesday, 2/28/2024! 

• Spring Break at the Refuge!  March 11, 13, 15

• Spring Break at the Pottsboro Library March 11, 12, 13

• Junior Master Gardener Day Camp at the Library April 1st

• Nature'Ology Day Camp June 1st Registration Required

• Junior and Advanced Ranger Programs

• Love butterflies? Join the Garden Docents! Their first meeting of the season will be April 6th.

February, 2024 Featherless Flyer

In This Edition:

• It's not too late to see the geese! Over 7,000 were spotted during the Tuesday bird survey on Jan. 30!
• Read all about the Otters sometimes seen at the refuge in our feature article "A Romp of Otters" by Renny Gehman.
• Monarchs are struggling! You can help! Join the Monarch Research team, training session is Saturday, February 28th at 1:00. Details within, Registration Required. 

January, 2024 Featherless Flyer

In This Edition:

• Learn about the eagles on the refuge in our feature article by Peyton Briones. 
• Don't miss Refuge Manager Kathy Whaley's Second Saturday presentation about Eastern Bluebirds on Saturday, January 13th at 10:00 AM in the Visitor Center, and sign up for our new Bluebird Monitoring class offered on January 21st.  Both are open to the public. 

December, 2023 Featherless Flyer

In This Edition:

• The Geese are Here!  Read all about them in this month's feature article by Peyton Briones.
• Christmas is on the way, and the Adopt-A-Nestbox Sale is on!
• Help bird researchers from the comfort of your living room! The Christmas At-Home Bird Count/Feeder Watch Needs You! Or join the expert birders at the refuge for the annual Christmas Bird Count, details within.

• The White-faced Ibis population spiked at Hagerman this past summer, read all about it in the Featherless Flyer. 
• Christmas is on the way, and the Adopt-A-Nestbox Sale has Begun!

October, 2023 Featherless Flyer

In this edition: 

• The "Big" Little Sit is Saturday, October 7th!  Normally this event is the "Little Sit", but this one is the Big Sit because the entire country is participating!
• Learn about the majestic American White Pelicans migrating through the refuge in October.  759 were recorded in the September 26th Bird Census!