Education & Engagement
In addition to the outings planned by Bexar Audubon South Central Texas, we also enjoy promoting, attending, and providing volunteer support for birding festivals and special events in our 10-county region.
Check back often to learn more about upcoming events.
BE PART OF AN EXCITING FALL COMMUNITY EVENT!
Help Bexar Audubon South Central Texas staff our
"Birds as Pollinators" booth.
Saturday, October 3, 2026
9 AM to 2 PM
Last year almost 10,000 people attended!
Sign up to help HERE.
Contact Cappy Bird (Cappy@bexaraudubon.org)
for specific time segment assignments.
Bexar Audubon South Central Texas and
Cibolo Center for Conservation
Present:
INTRODUCTION TO BIRDING:
Tools, Tips, & Techniques
With Patsy & Tom Inglet
October 10, 2026|9am–11am
Cibolo Nature Center Auditorium
140 City Park Rd., Boerne, TX 78006
Do you enjoy watching birds in your own backyard? Do you find birds interesting and beautiful? Would you like to move beyond casual birding and develop more expertise in looking at birds, categorizing birds, and recognizing common birds—and perhaps even develop bird watching into an engaging hobby?
If so, then this class is for you!
Join us for Introduction to Birding, where you'll discover how to refine your birdwatching skills and enhance your understanding of these fascinating creatures. This class will prepare you for fieldwork by teaching you what to observe and how to use essential birding tools effectively.
Learn tools, tips, and techniques from avid Audubon birders and Alamo Chapter Texas Master Naturalists, Tom and Patsy Inglet, that will allow you to build your birding skills. From how to find birds to the tools and clues that will help you identify them, this workshop will provide what you need to help you get started in birding.
Come let us help you find your wings as a birder!
Bring: Binoculars and a Bird Field Guide if you have them. We have them to load if you don’t.
Dress: Long pants, dull colors, walking shoes, and a hat. Water, insect repellent, and sunscreen encouraged.
Your Instructors, Tom and Patsy Inglet, are native Texans originally from the Houston area, although they lived and worked 25 years overseas. They “retired” to the San Antonio area in 1999 and started their new career as “professional volunteers.”
Birds started as a volunteer interest, but they have now become a passion and a focus of their educational and conservation efforts and recreational activities and travels. They have traveled to every continent to see as many birds as possible, banded birds in the field, monitored birds in the nest, and taught many children and adults the basics of birding. They are proud Bird Nerds and work to conserve the birds they love by engaging more people in birding.
Tickets: $15/person.
To Purchase, please click HERE.
Approved for AAMN AT hours.
BE PART OF AN EXCITING
FALL COMMUNITY
EVENING EVENT!
Help Bexar Audubon South Central Texas staff our
"Hummingbirds as Pollinators" booth.
Saturday, October 10, 2026
5 PM to 9 PM
Sign up to help HERE.
Contact Cappy Bird (Cappy@bexaraudubon.org)
for specific time segment assignments.
INTRODUCING!
The Heart of Texas 100
A fun challenge for all members of
Bexar Audubon South Central Texas!
Inspired by Texas Ornithological Society’s Century Club, the Heart of Texas 100 intends to get Bexar Audubon South Central Texas members out and birding in underexplored counties and patches throughout our ten-county region. On the high-end of the spectrum, Bexar County leads the number of checklists in our region with over 150,000. On the opposite end, Atascosa county has only 4,375 submitted checklists on EBird as of January 21st, 2026. This huge gap in birding activity results in a huge gap in knowledge. Citizen science efforts like eBirding have become reservoirs of data that inform broader conservation actions, making lists completed in poorly surveyed counties particularly valuable.
Achieving the Heart of Texas 100 is simple: observe and log one hundred species in all ten of BASCTx’s member counties. These ten counties are: Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Comal, Gillespie, Guadalupe, Kendall, Kerr, Medina, and Wilson. Many of our more exploratory members may have already completed the challenge, and that is great news! Historical data counts toward your Heart of Texas 100 effort, so long as that data is available in EBird. Members who achieve this challenge will not only receive bragging rights, but also the gorgeous pin shown below.
To get started and review the full set of rules, email Danny@bexaraudubon.org. Whether you have completed the challenge in its entirety or are just getting started, we want to track your progress and help you along the way. Be on the lookout for county-specific birding guides in future newsletters. We can’t wait to see what you all discover!
To see your bird count in each of our counties, use this QUICK VISUAL GUIDE to assist you.
Mitchell Lake Audubon Center October Events
https://mitchelllake.audubon.
Mitchell Lake Audubon Center
Birding Tours
Guided Birding Tours
On this guided bird tour around the various habitats of Mitchell Lake Audubon Center, guests will see 30-50 different bird species with our expert guide. Travelling by both car and by foot to access as many areas as possible This tour is best suited for the birder age 15+ as it can last up to four hours, though you may leave at any time.
Time & Seasonality
Every Sunday morning (except fifth Sunday of month) at 8:00am
REGISTER HERE for Bird Tours.
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