Texas Events

Naturally Curious exhibits at a wide variety of festivals and meetings in Texas.  Come see us!  Here are some of the events we have done in the past. For annual events, we keep up old links as they should link to current information and are usually held about the same time each year.   To find out which events we will attend, please sign up for our eNotes, our monthly newsletter listing new products and our schedule of events.

2008

June 2008

July 2008

August   2008

• TOWMA Fall Meeting

September 2008

• Xtreme Hummingbird Saturdays at  Gulf Coast Bird Observatory, Lake Jackson, Changing format in 2008.  Join them Saturday Mornings in September for Hummingbird Banding, to stock up on Hummingbird Feeders and other activities.

• Rockport/Fulton's Hummer/Bird Celebration   September 11-14

• Gulf Coast Bird Observatory (GCBO) Hawk Migration Workshop, Smith Point, TX (Candy Abshier WMA, Site UTC 049 on the Upper Texas Coastal Birding Trail Map),

• Fredericksburg NPSOT Wildscapes Workshop

• TOS Fall Meeting

• TAEE Fall meeting

• Annual Wildscapes Workshop & Plant Sale, The Native Plant Society of Texas - Houston Chapter. Detail (2007).

October  2008

• Texas Wildlife Expo, TPW Headquarters, Austin

• Texas Butterfly Festival, Mission

• Texas Master Naturalist, Annual Statewide Meeting

• Conference for the Advancement of Science Teaching (CAST)

• Wild in Willacy

November 2008

• Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival, Harlingen,

• Kingsville Birding and Nature Festival, Kingsville.  Click on the calendar of events at http://kingsvilletexas.com, to learn about the festival and other fun events going on that same weekend in Kingsville, traditionally the weekend after the Harlingen Festival.

December 2008

• Holiday Open House, GCBO, Lake Jackson

• Travis Audubon Holiday Party, Austin

2009

Note:  These are the links to 2008 events, we'll update them as the dates draw closer.

January

• Texas Ornithological Society's Winter Meeting

February

• Eaglefest, Emory

• Texas Organization of Wildlife Management Associations (TOWMA)

•  Laredo Birding and Butterfly Festival,

• Laguna Atascosa NWR's Ocelot Days, Second Saturday (Feb. 9) at the Marine Military Academy, Harlingen

• Brownsville International Birding Festival 

• El Cielo Nature Festival (Tamaulipas, Mexico, leaving from the Brownsville Festival)

• Texas Chapter of the Wildlife Society,

• Sparrow Fest, Balcones Canyonland NWR (between Marble Falls and Cedar Park, TX)  A weekend retreat sponsored by the Friends of Balcones Canyonland NWR. 

• A Celebration of Whooping Cranes, last weekend in February, Port Aransas

• Texas Land Trust Council Statewide Conference  www.texaslandtrustcouncil.org

• Austin Butterfly Forum

March 2008

• Texas Association of Environmental Educators Spring meeting, Camp Olympia, Trinity Tx.

• Texas Academy of Science Meeting, Corpus Christi, March 6-8, 2008

• Colorado County Wildlife Management Areas Annual Meeting, Columbus

• Texas Tropics Nature Festival, McAllen usually with pre and post field trips into Mexico, trips and dinner only.

• FeatherFest, Galveston

April 2008

• Wildlife Practices at Cooper Farms near LaGrange

• Migration Celebration,  1-888-477-2505.  San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge, near Lake Jackson

• Great TX Birding Classic, a birding competition along the Texas Coast and in the Rio Grande Valley.  Contact Carol Jones, cjones@gcbo.org for details.

• Earth Day, The Woodlands

• Bastrop/Caldwell County Wildilfe Extravaganza, Smithville, April 12th

• Red River Valley Birding and Nature Festival at the Hagerman NWR  www.redriverbirding.com

• Texas Ornithological Society Spring meeting

• Southwest Area Naturalists Meeting (SWAN)

• NatureQuest Tuesday, April 22 - Sunday April 27th

• Balcones Songbird Festival   April 25 - 28, 2008.  A celebration of nature to experience birds, butterflies and wildflowers.  Formerly known as the Texas Songbird Festival, these events have brought over 1,000 participants out to see the endangered Golden-cheeked Warbler and Black-capped Vireo. Balcones Canyonlands NWR is located about 30 miles NW of Austin, TX. Contact: (512) 339-9432,  friends@friendsofbalcones.org  

• Texas Conservation Alliance Annual PowWow, celebrating the Big Thicket National Preserve, April 25-27.  Take a boat tour on the Neches River!  Canoe the Neches or Village Creek!  Hike through the spectacular Big Thicket National Preserve!  Sing along with Bill Oliver and other great entertainers.  Texas Conservation Alliance invites you to the 29th Annual Texas Wilderness POW WOW April 25-26-27, 2008, at Village Creek State Park. For details, check out their flyer...

May 2008

• WildFest San Antonio (2007 info), a first time, and it looks very well done.  Our Partner Store, Mitchell Lake Audubon Center is one of the sponsors.