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Got Brown-Eyed Susans?

Do you have Brown-eyed Susans in your landscape? Would you like to?

Volunteers prepare the net to capture red knots.

Volunteering for Red Knots

For non-birders, a Red Knot is a small shorebird. It breeds in the Arctic, and can winter as far south

Fennessey Vegetation Survey

MCTMN'ers have been working with the Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve since 2009 to survey vegetation on the Fennessey Ranch

Mid-Coast Chapter members help Keep Aransas County Beautiful plant native plants at the city signs

Rockport Native Plantings

Mid-Coast Master Naturalists, along with volunteers from Keep Aransas County Beautiful and Native Dave Sustainable Landscape Solutions, planted natives at

Members-in-training learn about critters that live in the bay from Dr. Russ Miget, charter member of the Mid-Coast chapter

Bay Ecology

Members of the 2019 initial training class examine what was caught in a seine during our Bay Ecology training field

Fiery skipper butterfly on Padre Island mistflower

Castro Butterflies

butterfly explosion resulting from Ellen Reisinger's design and implementation of the Monarch Waystation at the Linda S. Castro Nature Sanctuary

Castro Spring-Cleaning

Thanks go to 16 volunteers—local Master Naturalists and Master Gardeners and students from Texas State University’s Wildlife Society, Plant Biology

Setting a post for a sign to protect a colonial waterbird rookery

Salt Lake Rookery

Mid-Coast Chapter partnered with Keep Aransas County Beautiful (KACB) and Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program (CBBEP) to clean up

The Great Kiskadee Show!

A pair of Great Kiskadees is building a nest at the Matagorda County Birding Nature Center. They are putting on