Many thanks for attending last Thursday’s meeting with Kirby Vahle, the VP for the UTSW Physical Plant. The minutes are posted at the Audubon Dallas thread. If you can, please send special thanks to Anna and Betsy of Audubon Dallas … Continue reading
Thank you for your communications. First things first. After a week of quiet, the birds are looking better. The great egrets are repairing their nests again, as several of you noted. The new arrivals, which had stopped since the disturbances, … Continue reading
Please note that there will be a meeting about the rookery this Thursday (12 March) from noon to 1:00 p.m., at the UTSW Physical Plant Building 2nd-Floor Conference Room (Room P2.100). This meeting has been organized so that parties interested … Continue reading
The good news Some support is coming in for the birds. For example, Audubon Dallas has stepped in with a report about the rookery. The bad news The expert who is advising the university is a retired biologist who wrote … Continue reading
News of the rookery disturbances will appear at 5:00 p.m. on Channel 8. WFAA will be reporting live from the Rookery. St. James is a real pro and very dogged about this story. She was here yesterday afternoon when some of … Continue reading
We walked the perimeter of the rookery this afternoon and were shocked by what we saw. So far, we had only seen the damage from our car as we drove to and fro. Please take a walk there as soon … Continue reading
If you wandered by the rookery recently, you probably noticed that all the underbrush was cleared, and many trees cut down or pruned. All of this happened since this Monday, while over 150 birds were in place on their nests. … Continue reading
Welcome back from the winter! I hope you are all well and happy. The egrets began gliding into the rookery last Friday, right on schedule for Valentine’s. About 150 birds are here: all great egrets. More coming all the time. … Continue reading
It has been three months since my last message and a summer unusually filled with travel. How the time goes! Normally some egrets would still be scouring the grass for grasshoppers, and from past experience, we would have expected this … Continue reading
So far this season, we have rescued about 20 great egrets, whereas in previous years, we only found about 2-5 who needed help. One of the main reasons for this increase is that, all around the areas surrounding Dallas, rookeries … Continue reading