Beginning in June - we are switching to the 3rd Wednesday of each month!
Join us for our 4th Trash Clean-up Day at Prairie Park! After the Clean-up we will visit a local Cafe or Dinner for Breakfast.
The Sandhills landform was created out of the sediments eroded from the Rocky Mountains by Pleistocene glaciers (2.8M – 12,000 years ago), deposited and shaped by winds to heights over 300 feet and stabilized by an extremely diverse group of grassland plants. What can be seen today is a mixed grass prairie covering more than 19,000 square miles or 25% of the state. These Sandhills also overlie the immense Ogallala aquifer which appears as many wetlands and shallow lakes. The region was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1984 that provides nesting habitat for declining prairie bird species, as well as wetland species from waterfowl to Marsh Wrens. It is now also home to over half a million cattle and very few people making it an excellent destination for naturalists.
We will journey the 225 miles to Valentine, NE on Friday, June 26 to experience this vast prairie and search for the prairie and western species breeding there each summer.
For more information - contact Bill Huser at billfhuser@gmail.com
Photo credit USFWS, 10/14/2021
The Loess Hills Audubon Society adopted Prairie Park under the City’s “Adopt a Park” Program. We will cleaning up the trash at the park the 3rd Wednesday of each month from 9:30-10:30 am. After the clean-up, we will meet for breakfast at a local cafe or dinner.
Contact Kayla Sheehan or Bill Huser for more information.
Travel to Storm Lake and Kiowa Marsh to search for shorebirds, post-breeding waders and gulls. Dana Seifert plans to join the Loess Hills Audubon Birders. Storm Lake is approximately a 1.5 hour drive from Sioux City.
Meet at 6:30 am at the Singing Hills Walmart Parking Lot, NW Corner.
More information on this trip soon.
Contact Bill Huser, Outings Coordinator, at billfhuser@gmail.com.
The Loess Hills Audubon Society adopted Prairie Park under the City’s “Adopt a Park” Program. We will cleaning up the trash at the park the 3rd Wednesday of each month from 9:30-10:30 am. After the clean-up, we will meet for breakfast at a local cafe or dinner.
Contact Kayla Sheehan or Bill Huser for more information.
Amie Adams is a writer and editor creating at the intersection of nature, place and history. Her work is rooted in the Midwest—where diverse ecologies persist in a fragmented landscape. Amie earned an MFA in Creative Writing and is a certified Iowa Master Naturalist. She is the founding editor of the grassroots literary journal Iowa Field Guides and author of The Observer: The Life and Writings of B.O. Wolden.
Join us for a presentation on little-known Iowa naturalist B.O. Wolden. Born in Emmet County in northwest Iowa in 1886, Olaf lived through a time when the Iowa landscape was changing rapidly.
Throughout his lifetime, Olaf studied plants, birds, and the landscape of his home and wrote about them for four decades. Amie will present on her Iowa Master Naturalist project—compiling an anthology of Wolden's work and writing an accompanying biography. Together, we will consider the rich history of the Iowa landscape, its flora and fauna, and the legacy of a naturalist and writer who loved both this land and its inhabitants.
Books will be for sale at the event.
Book Blurb: Olaf Wolden was one of those rare people who knew his home place with an intimacy most of us can only aspire to, and he shared a bond with all the beings he lived among, a bond that can be difficult to find in our modern age. A naturalist in every sense of the word, Olaf had a personal devotion to tracking bird migrations and flower bloomings, a scientific drive to catalogue mosses and lichens with exacting precision, and a desire to share his passion for the natural world with others.
From 1930-1968, he contributed a column titled Nature Notes to The Estherville Daily News where he shared musings and observations about the natural world. Olaf's story reaches back to the mid-19th century, a time when northwest Iowa was a wilder place than the one we have today. The Observer tells the story of Olaf's childhood in Island Grove and his development as a naturalist and botanist. Readers will experience Olaf's love of nature in his own words through a curated selection of his Nature Notes and an accompanying biography. Purchase at amieadams.space/store. All proceeds go to Emmet County Conservation.
The Loess Hills Audubon Society adopted Prairie Park under the City’s “Adopt a Park” Program. We will cleaning up the trash at the park the 3rd Wednesday of each month from 9:30-10:30 am. After the clean-up, we will meet for breakfast at a local cafe or dinner.
Contact Kayla Sheehan or Bill Huser for more information.
More information coming!
Every Bird Counts: Your Observations Matter!
Join us in Celebrating Migratory Bird Day with Bird Walks and a Bird Sit. Meet at the Pammel Valley Shelter.
Stay tuned for details!
The Loess Hills Audubon Society adopted Prairie Park under the City’s “Adopt a Park” Program. We will cleaning up the trash at the park the 3rd Wednesday of each month from 9:30-10:30 am. After the clean-up, we will meet for breakfast at a local cafe or dinner.
Contact Kayla Sheehan or Bill Huser for more information.
The next Audubon Christmas Bird Count at Yankton will be held on December 20, 2026. If you have any questions about the 2025 or 2026 Christmas Bird Counts contact Roger Dietrich at 1947rogerd@gmail.com.
Loess Hills Audubon Society’s 3rd Annual Photo Exhibition. This year’s theme is inspired by the quote attributed to author Willa Cather “Anybody can love the mountains, but it takes a soul to love the prairie.” More than half the remaining remnant prairie in Iowa is found in the Loess Hills of Western Iowa.
Reception Details in the planning stages. SAVE the DATE!
Sharon Polifka and Marla Kerr will present a Sunday morning session at the Loess Hills Prairie Seminar.
Over 1 Billion birds die in window collisions each year. One of the ways we can protect birds is by reducing bird/window collisions. After a discussion on the human-related threats to birds, we will focus on window strikes and why this happens. Various window treatment methods for reducing this threat will be presented. Participants will have an opportunity to create their own Acopian Blind (Zen Wind Curtain) to take home. If you would like to create a blind, please bring measurements from one of your windows in your house. We will have materials for 20 windows – sized 24” wide by 36” high. Children under 16 need to be accompanied by an adult. Available materials are limited to one blind per family.
More information on the Seminar can be found here.
The Loess Hills Audubon Society recently “adopted” City of Sioux City’s Prairie Park under the Adopt-a-Park program.
Beginning in June, we will switch the trash clean-up day to Wednesdays!
We will be picking up trash in the park on the 3rd Wednesday of each month from 9:30-10:30 am. After the clean-up, we will meet for a late breakfast at a local cafe or dinner. Although birding is not our main purpose on these occasions, it doesn’t hurt to look around to see what you can see! This will be our 3rd Clean-up Event. Hope to see you there!
MORE INFORMATION and SESSION DESCRIPTIONS CAN BE FOUND ON OUR WORLD MIGRATORY BIRD DAY PAGE.
Our partners include: The Loess Hills Wild Ones, the Northwest Group of Sierra Club, the Sioux City Public Library, and the Woodbury County Conservation Board. Children’s games and crafts throughout the day. Bird Hikes, Birding Reflections and Mindful Birding.
Meet at Shelter 2.
This year’s theme is Every Bird Counts - Your Observations Matter.
Participate in this annual Citizen Science Project during Spring Migration.
Learn more about World Migratory Bird Day.
Contact Outings Coordinator, Bill Huser at billfhuser@gmail.com for information.
Siouxland’s Challenging Bird Identifications
Our Siouxland home lies on the boundary of the Eastern Deciduous Forest and the Great Plains. As such, it is at the limit of some Eastern species and their Western counterparts. Think Eastern and Spotted Towhees, Eastern and Western Meadowlarks, Eastern and Western Wood Pewees and others. In these cases, the counterparts are difficult to distinguish and present special identification challenges.
The program will discuss some of these pairs and other Springtime identification problems.
Leading our discussion will be longtime, local birders Jerry Probst and Bill Huser, who began birding in the early 1970’s. Often birding together during their lunch break from the Sue Bee Honey laboratory, they found many of their first lifers at the nearby Floyd Cemetery. Both were charter members of the re-established Loess Hills Audubon Chapter in the early 1980’s and have each served the Chapter as president. Each has birded from coast to coast and from the Rio Grande to Hudson Bay.
The Loess Hills Audubon Society Board Meeting begins at 6:00 pm with our program beginning at 7:00 pm.
Everyone is welcome to attend both the board meeting and the free program!
Marla Kerr and Sharon Polifka from the Loess Hills Audubon Society will join forces with Dr. David Hoferer from the Northwest Iowa Group of Sierra Club to present information on ways that we can protect birds. The City of Sioux City completed the process to become a certified Bird Friendly City in Iowa and part of the Bird City Network. Marla will briefly discuss this process and the ways we are working to protect birds. Marla and Sharon will discuss various window treatments available, and efforts that are happening in the area. Dr. David Hoferer will discuss the detrimental effects of lighting on birds and wildlife during migration and other times of the year, and ways that we can minimize the effects.
This program will be held in the Kozak Room at the Vermillion Public Library, and is part of a series of program offered in Vermillion during Earth Day week, and is sponsored by the Living River Group of Sierra Club.
To learn more about the programs offered during Earth Day Week in Vermillion, see Greening Vermillion.
Join us for an amazing experience! Bill Zales will be leading a tour of his newly acquired 80 acres of land near his property and discussing the process that will be involved in restorating this land to a native Loess Hills Prairie. This program is a co-sponsored event by the Loess Hills Audubon Society and the Northwest Iowa Group of Sierra Club. The tour starts at 1:00 pm. Meet outside the Zales Prairie Hills homestead.
There is a program beginning at 10 am at Dorothy Pecaut Nature Center - Prairie Reborn! with Brodie Skinner. This program fits nicely with the information that Bill Zales will be sharing! Be sure to enjoy both programs on Wednesday, April 22.
April 22 is Earth Day! What a perfect way to celebrate and learn about the world around us.
The Loess Hills Audubon Society recently “adopted” City of Sioux City’s Prairie Park under the Adopt-a-Park program. We will be picking up trash in the park on the 3rd Tuesday of each month from 9:30-10:30 am. After the clean-up, we will meet for a late breakfast at a local cafe or dinner. Although birding is not our main purpose on these occasions, it doesn’t hurt to look around to see what you can see! This will be our 2nd Clean-up Event. Hope to see you there!
Shorebirds Destination - details to be arranged. Siouxland has been locked in a draught cycle for several years now, making finding migrating shorebirds very difficult. Absent have been fields flooded by snowmelt or April showers. Gone are many of our oxbow lakes and borrow pits. Except for rare flood events, we have had few places with mudflats and shallow water.
Therefore, for this outing we will travel to wherever there IS appropriate water conditions. Hopefully, we will be able to select a suitable destination the preceding week and will announce a meeting place and time then. Stay tuned.
Due to the Easter Holiday Weekend, this program is scheduled for the 2nd Thursday in April 2026.
Many of us know that birds don't sweat. But did you know they still lose water through their skin? Little is known about this physiological phenomenon, particularly in nestlings. Jillian’s research examines how cutaneous (through-the-skin) water loss changes throughout nestling development and what factors may affect it. During the presentation, Jillian will walk us through the first years' work on this project, giving you all the details you never knew you wanted to know.
Jillian Murphy has been a birder since the age of 9, and has studied birds since 2022 as an undergrad at Portland State University. Jillian is currently an MS student at the University of South Dakota, studying songbird development, nest microclimates, and their interactions.
The Loess Hills Audubon Society Board Meeting begins at 6:00 pm with Jillians’s program beginning at 7:00 pm.
Everyone is welcome to attend both the board meeting and the free program!
Join us as we travel to Grand Island Nebraska to see the Sandhill Cranes. Book a hotel room early at the Fairfield Inn and Suites by Marriott in Grand Island. In addition, there are other nearby hotels to choose from.
Contact Bill Huser at billfhuser@gmail.com or 712-574-3107 for trip details.
John Buntsma, Master Gardener & Horticulture Engagement Coordination with the Iowa State University Extension and Outreach in Sioux County, will discuss physical, mental and spiritual therapeutic values involved in gardening. We all know the value of the produce and the taste benefits of home-grown vegetables. Being outdoors has many health benefits for people of all abilities, and there are added environmental benefits of home gardening. There so much that we can learn from and about gardening – plants, flowers and nature.
Join us for an evening with Horticultural Expert and Master Gardener Engagement Assistant John Buntsma.
The Loess Hills Audubon Society Board Meeting begins at 6:00 pm with John’s program beginning at 7:00 pm.
Everyone is welcome to attend both the board meeting and the free program!
For February’s Loess Hills Audubon Society Outing we will visit Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo, 3701 S 10th St, Omaha. A large variety of species reside at the Zoo in the different habitats.
Contact Bill Huser, Outings Coordinator, at 712-574-3107 or billfhuser@gmail.com for more information.
The Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) iengages bird watchers of all ages in counting birds to create a real-time snapshot of bird populations. Participants are asked to count birds for as little as 15 minutes (or as long as they wish) on one or more days of the four-day event and report their sightings on eBird. Anyone can take part in the Great Backyard Bird Count, from beginning bird watchers to experts, and you can participate from your backyard, or anywhere in the world.
Each checklist submitted during the GBBC helps researchers learn more about how birds are doing, and how to protect them and the environment we share.
When you think of a vast wilderness fillled with Carolina Parakeets, Long-billed Curlews, Whooping Cranes, Swallow-tailed Kites, Ruffed and Sharp-tailed Grouse, Pronghorns, Swift Foxes, and Black Bears, does Siouxland come to mind? Believe it or not, all of these species and many more could be found in the region pre-settlement.
Join us for a presentation by Tucker Lutter, Western Iowa Assistant Land Steward for The Nature Conservancy in Iowa, as we envision what animals called the region home over two hundred years ago. We will also discuss the future of western Iowa - what lost species could someday return, what new species may arrive as the climate and ecosystems change, what species are on the brink of being extirpated from the region, and what this means for conservation efforts moving forward.
The Loess Hills Audubon Society Board Meeting begins at 6:00 pm with Tucker’s program beginning at 7:00 pm.
Everyone is welcome to attend both the board meeting and the free program!
A River Runs Through It: the Loess Hills Audubon Society Reception and Digital Images Slide Show.
Digital Images Slide Show from 1-4 pm.
Program from 2:00-2:30 pm.
Reception from 3-4 pm.
Loess Hills Audubon Society Photo Exhibit
A River Runs Through It: the Loess Hills Audubon Society Photo Exhibit
Our section of the country is defined by two things - the Loess Hills and the Rivers that run through it.
On Sunday, January 18 - Reception from 3-4 pm.
There will be a short program from 2:00-2:30 pm and a digital image program Photographing Nature highlighting the photography of Loess Hills Audubon Society members and friends from 1-4 pm.
The Photo Exhibition will start on January 13 and run through February 22, 2026.
Meet at the Singing Hills Walmart at 7:30 am (Northeast corner of parking lot) for a “Show & Go” Outing. We will caravan to sites where interesting birds have been reported.
For more information, contact Outings Coordinator, Bill Huser, at 712-574-3107 or billfhuser@gmail.com.
Danielle Metzger from the Loess Hills Wild Ones will present a program on incorporating Native Plants in the home landscape. She will share creative ideas that you can use in your garden. Planting essential native plants benefit birds and pollinators and are an important part of conservation.
The Loess Hills Audubon Society Board Meeting begins at 6:00 pm with this evening’s program beginning at 7:00 pm.
Everyone is welcome to attend both the board meeting and the free program!
The day starts with an early owl prowl! Contact Don if you are interested in joining this event.
Meet at the Education Center at Moorehead Park at 8 a.m. There will be with coffee & rolls. We then put the field groups together and heads out.
Meet back at the Education Center at 12 noon is Don’s “best ever Chili”! Then teams will head back out in the fields counting birds. Some birdwatchers walk the timber areas of the park and river. Meet back at the Education Center around 3:00 pm to add the numbers of birds seen - for a recap count compilation. The day ends with Pie and ice cream.
Contact Don Poggensee for more information on how to participate at donpoggensee@gmail.com
Feeder Watchers as well as car birders and bird walkers & hikers are welcome to participate. Keep track of the exact times, the length of time birded, the distance covered by foot and by car - important information for Jerry’s statistics. Coordinate your birding locations with Jerry Probst, the compiler - so that all areas within the birding “circle” in Iowa are birded for the final count. Jerry tabulates the final results after the sun goes down, around dinner time.
To participate and coordinate your birding efforts:
Contact the compiler, Jerry Probst at 712-490-8256.
Join us for a fun day of birding at the northern terminus of the Loess Hills. The count circle is home to the largest remaining prairies in Iowa, including Broken Kettle Grasslands, which is home to wintering Golden Eagles, Red-shafted Northern Flickers, a herd of American Bison, and formerly Iowa's only breeding population of Black-billed Magpies.
We will meet at 7:30 AM at the Westfield Community Center (215 Linden St., Westfield, IA) before breaking out into birding groups. We will meet back at the community center at 12:30 pm for a potluck lunch and again at 5 PM for the compilation.
The backup date for inclement weather is Thursday, December 18.
To sign up or if you have any questions, please contact Tucker Lutter at tucker.lutter@tnc.org or at (712) 560-6770. You can also sign up on Mobilize at https://www.mobilize.us/audubon-community.../event/856710/.
Note: Since we are having a potluck lunch, please plan to bring a main or side dish. Please let Tucker know what you plan on bringing so we can have a well-rounded selection of food.
The 21st annual Ponca State Park CBC will be held on Sunday, Dec. 14. The Count will be the centerpiece of the Park’s Winterfest event. This count includes Ponca State Park, Powder Creek WMA and Buckskin Hills WMA as well as the Missouri River, its sandbars, backwaters and bluffs and can host over 60 species of birds. In the past, Greater Prairie Chicken, Black-legged Kittiwake, Golden Eagle, Prairie Falcon, Townsend’s Solitaire, Bohemian Waxwing and Mountain Bluebird have been found on the count.
Those interested in participating in this count should contact me with your plans and meet at Ponca State Park’s Resource Center at 7:30am.
The Park staff will both participate and provide a hot lunch at noon. There we will warm up, enjoy a hearty meal, compare notes and plan the afternoon’s effort.
Those interested in searching for owls before dawn, should contact me before the count.
Note: a park permit is required on cars entering the park.
Bill Huser
712-574-3107
Billfhuser@gmail.com
Ponca State Park CBC compiler
The Yankton CBC is one of the oldest in the area starting in 1917 and only missing a few years since then. In previous year, between 70-80 species of birds have been recorded.
Contact Roger Dietrich at 1947rogerd@gmail.com OR 605-660-6247 for details and to participate.
Paul Roisen is the host for this year’s slide show. Share your birding and nature adventures with your Audubon friends! Feel free to bring a Holiday treat to share. This program is a combination of food, fellowship, and a “Show and Tell” of photos of travel and birding adventures during 2025. It is a time of fun and celebration! We hope you can all participate!
When it comes time for your presentation, share a little information on where it was taken, and any highlights associated with the photo.
Requirements for photos and Videos:
1. Photos/Videos are to be from the 2025 calendar year.
2. Submissions for each presentation is a TOTAL OF 10 (TEN) photos and videos combined.
3. Please make sure your media is of reasonable quality (recognizable image).
4. Presentations should share experiences focused on nature: flowers, birds, animals, trees, scenery and so forth. Your backyard, travels around the Loess Hills, local-state-national parks, world travel and, of course, LHAS outings, etc.
5. Please avoid submissions from non-nature related experiences.
6. Family members may each have their own presentation should they so desire.
7. You may team up with another person if that would make it easier for you.
8. Photo formats: .JPEG, .PNG, and HEIC or they, likely, will not work in PowerPoint.
9. Video formats: MP4 and 3GP.
10. Photo sizes: Minimum size: 500k and Maximum size: 2.5MB I can help you downsize if necessary
11. Video length and quality: Maximum length: 90 seconds and quality of: 1080P for good viewing.
12. Please let me know what order you wish to have me put your photos/videos in. Either include the information when submit your media or call me and I can help you put them in order.
13. Send all submissions to me via email or put them on a flash drive and get it to me.
Deadline for submitting your photos/videos:
HARD deadline of November 10, 2025 midnight for submitting your photos/videos. This deadline is necessary to provide me with adequate time to prepare a smooth-running power point especially when dealing with all kinds of different photo and video formats presenters might submit.
The Loess Hills Audubon Society Board Meeting begins at 6:00 pm with the Show beginning at 7:00 pm.
Everyone is welcome to attend both the board meeting and the free program!
Meet at the Singing Hills Walmart at 7:00 am for the caravan to the birding location.
Desoto is located along the Missouri River and borders both Iowa and Nebraska, approximately 78 miles from Sioux City (75 minute drive). Within its over 8,000 acres lies DeSoto Lake, an oxbow lake that used to be a bend in the river. The refuge contains bottomland forests, tall grass prairies and wetland habitat that benefits a diversity of migratory birds. The refuge contains a piece of history in the visitor center, the Bertrand Steamboat contents, consisting of 250,000 different artifacts.
We hope our timing will match that of the thousands of Snow Geese that pause at the refuge each Fall. Our auto tour will search for waterfowl throughout the refuge, but our highlight may be viewing this spectacle from the warmth and proximity of the Visitor Center which offers views of much of the lake.
Such vast numbers of geese often attract other species, from the closely related Ross’s Goose and other waterfowl to predatory Eagles, Hawks, Falcons and Coyotes. Spotting scopes may bring each into a close-up view for us.
There is the possibility of continued birding into the afternoon, so you may wish to bring sack lunches or snacks.
Also, please bring your litter pick-up gear (grabbers, plastic shopping bags, gloves) as the Chapter will conduct a brief litter pick-up as needed.
For more information contact Bill Huser at 712-574-3107 or billfhuser@gmail.com.
Remember: all LHAS outings are open to the public and offer an inviting way to begin birding and meet others with similar interests.
LHAS Silent Auction Fundraiser on the Main Floor from 4:00-6:00 pm., and the Northwest Iowa Group of Sierra Club’s annual Chili Social in the basement from 4:00-6:30 pm. Join us for both events!
Auction items accepted:
Thursday, November 6, 6-8 pm at Dorothy Pecaut Nature Center, LHAS Meeting
Friday, November 7, 2-3 pm at First Unitarian Church
Saturday, November 8, 3-4 pm at First Unitarian Church (before Auction Starts)
If these times do not work for you, contact a LHAS Board Member for other arrangements.
Brian and Darren have been hunting dinosaurs for over 30 years. They recently concluded an 8 month dinosaur display at the Sioux City Museum. Dinosaurs of Hell Creek include T-rex, Triceratops, Edmontosaurus and Ankylosaurus. See real dino bones for display & enjoy their slide presentation. IThe Loess Hills Audubon Society Board Meeting begins at 6:00 pm with Brian’s program beginning at 7:00 pm.
Everyone is welcome to attend both the board meeting and the free program!
To document the southward movements of our avian fauna, this Fall’s World Migratory Bird Day is scheduled for Saturday, October 11. LHAS will be participating in this world-wide citizen science effort by visiting the area’s very best migratory stopover sites. Rather than splitting into groups to cover more sites, this group effort will focus on reaching out to the public, inviting beginning birders, showing how to use eBird and showcasing the area’s very best birding sites. These will include Stone State Park, Bacon Creek Park, Snyder’s Bend and Owego Wetlands and perhaps a few others.
Those interested should gather at the public boat ramp in Sioux City’s Chris Larsen Park at 7am, Saturday, October 11. Though you may leave at any time, as your schedule dictates, many of us will continue into the afternoon and will bring sack lunches to enjoy wherever we are at noon.
Also, please bring your litter pick-up gear (grabbers, plastic shopping bags, gloves) as the Chapter will conduct a brief litter pick-up at each parking area we visit during the day.
For more information contact Bill Huser at 712-574-3107 or billfhuser@gmail.com.
Remember: all LHAS outings are open to the public and offer an inviting way to begin birding and meet others with similar interests.
Thane Dinsdale will share his birding and cultural adventures in Newfoundland, the easternmost maritime province of Canada and the easternmost point in North America. He had the opportunity to explore a variety of habitats including the boreal forest, the tundra, and various sea shores. He will share his photos and experiences seeing over 89 species of birds. Some of his highlights include viewing seabird colonies including puffins, gannets, and razorbills, and seeing the famous Steller’s Sea-Eagle. Thane will discuss his experiences, assessing the wide variety of habitats in this area. He will incorporate Newfoundland's rich history and distinctive local culture, both of which have been influenced by its low population density and geographical isolation.
The Loess Hills Audubon Society Board Meeting begins at 6:00 pm with Thane’s program beginning at 7:00 pm.
Everyone is welcome to attend both the board meeting and the free program!
Above photo copyright by Thane Dinsdale, used with permission.
Meet at the Southern Hills Walmart Parking Lot, NW Corner for the 40 mile caravan to Fowler Forest Preserve via the Scenic Loess Hills Byway.
We will enjoy bird walks at Fowler Forest Preserve, Southwood & Oak Ridge conservation Areas in Woodbury County before having lunch and fellowship at Sharon and John Polifka’s nearby country home.
RSVP Sharon at 712-212-5395 if you plan to join for lunch.
Bring your litter pick-up gear (grabbers, plastic gloves, plastic shopping bags, and gloves) for a brief litter pick-up at each stop on our journey.
