Visit to Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge for Fall Birding

Saturday, November 14, 2025, 8:30 am., join the Houston Sierra Club (HSC) for a tour of Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge (BNWR). We’ll look for American Alligators, ducks, wading birds, shorebirds, songbirds, raptors, waterfowl, other native wildlife.

Lunch will be a “bring your own” and we’ll eat at the covered pavilion next to a wetlands pond. This federal wildlife refuge is managed for us by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The BNWR is located on 44,000-acres of wetlands/prairie in southeastern Brazoria County.

The link below has the Sierra Club participant sign-in agreement (liability waiver). Please read this before the outing so you know what it says. We’ll sign-in quickly at BNWR and proceed with the outing. Sign-Up Sheet 2-2020.pdf (sierraclub.org).

If anyone has COVID symptoms or is sick don’t come! We want everyone to be safe. We’ll potentially be with individuals who are vaccinated/unvaccinated. It’s each person’s choice to participate on this outing.

Bring water (2 qts), snacks, lunch, hat, bug repellent, sunscreen, binoculars, spotting scopes, cameras, field guides, and weather appropriate clothes. We’ll bird from our cars on the auto-tour and from short trails. This outing is limited to 20 people. No pets/firearms/radios. Put cell phones on vibrate so we enjoy the solitude/quiet/natural sounds at BNWR.

Meet your leader (gray Honda CRV hybrid) at 7:30 am, just W. of Starbucks in Meyerland Plaza, in the parking lot (4700 block of Beechnut) if you want to carpool/caravan. Be on time so we can get to BNWR by 8:30 am!

If you have questions, contact Brandt Mannchen at the HSC Meet-up site, 281-570-7212, or email: [email protected]. Directions to BNWR are:

1. S on SH 288 to Business SH 288 (BSH)/Spur 300\, Angleton.
2. Exit SH 288\, turn lt onto BSH 288.
3. S on BSH 288 to FM 523.
4. Turn lt onto FM 523 and 5.5 miles past FM 2004 turn lt onto Hoskins Mound Rd (CR 227).
5. Go 1.7 miles\, BNWR entrance is on rt. Meet at Discovery Center/pond/parking lot.