Beginning Birding Course

Learn about common backyard birds, like this Cedar Waxwing by Donnie Simmons

Wayne Meyer will be leading classes in how to become a bird watcher this spring. Starting in mid-March, just as the temperatures should start to warm up, the classes will go over basics like using binoculars, using field guides, learning the local birds, learning how to find them, etc.

Classes will be from 8 AM until noon on 22 and 29 March, 5 and 12 April. We will spend approximately 90 minutes each day in a classroom and the rest of the time out on the refuge looking at birds.

In 1993, Dr. Wayne Meyer finally achieved his life’s dream of being paid to look at birds when he joined the faculty of Austin College. He has birded both coasts of the U.S. extensively and now has spent a quarter century birding in Texas and Oklahoma. The proximity of Austin College to Hagerman NWR has made research on prairie birds easy and convenient and he has been studying song learning and singing in Painted Buntings for over a decade. Meyer is also a sought after speaker for Master Naturalist groups and a frequent speaker at the Friends of Hagerman NWR second Saturday programs.

Four Saturdays: 3/22, 3/29, 4/05, 4/12

Time: 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Registration Fee: $10