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Birding Walks at the Heard Museum

Prairie & Timbers Audubon Society and the Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary will hold a bird walk the second Saturday of the month, September to May.


The walks are intended to help beginners and immediate birders with bird spotting and identification techniques. The walk will last about one to one and a half-hours. Bring binoculars if you have them.  The leader often continue birding thru the morning or you can walk the trails on your own.

Where:  The Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary, McKinney, TX. 

When:  2nd Saturday - Sep 12 , Oct 10 , Nov 14, Dec 12.

Time:  Walk starts at 9:00am.

Registration required:  Call the Heard at 972-562-5566.

Cost:  Participants sign in at the Heard Museum nature store and pay the normal entry fee to the Heard Museum -- free to Heard Museum members, non-Heard members $8.00 per adult, $5.00 seniors/children.  Fee includes access to museum and trails after the bird walk.

Directions:  From US 75 (Central Expressway), take exit 38A East. Proceed 1 mile and turn south on State Highway 5. Go 3/4 mile and turn left on FM 1378. Go 1 mile east on FM 1378 and turn left just past the brown Heard Museum sign.  Click HERE to view map, or you can call 972-562-5566.

Visit the Heard website, http://www.heardmuseum.org to learn about the many programs for children and adults.

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Last Update:  23 Feb, 2009
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