New Year, New Perspective

Meet or exceed your 2025 fitness goals Every walk is a treasure hunt where the more you look, the more you find! Engage with nature and eagerly log your daily steps.

Grab a refreshing drink, delicious sandwich and other goodies in the Café. We’ll enjoy beautiful images of nature’s colors and patterns then explore citizen science tools and projects. Viewing the outdoors with new eyes for discovery, keeping those New Year’s resolutions will be a breeze!

Keep Learning ....

Citizen Science Apps and online communities

Join one of our Boot Camps and learn all the truly great functionalities eBird and iNat offers

• eBird.org : it's for the birds (and birders)

• iNaturalist.org/Seek : for birds, bugs, plants, fungi...anything alive on Planet Earth

Other apps, projects and online communities

• Cocorahs : local weather data

• Texas Nature Trackers : TX Parks and Wildlife projects

• Journey North : Track monarchs, bald eagles and more

• Feather Atlas - birds of a feather (or actually vice versa)

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... and a few more you can find via Google Play or Apple store

• Raptor ID : Hawks, eagles, and other birds of Prey

• Animal Tracks : ps. iNat does tracks and scat

• Leps - butterflies

• Plant snap - plants of course

• Skyview - astronomy

• Rockd - geology

Plain 'ol Fun - while learning

An 18 inch “stabby-punchy pulverizing rainbow of the sea“

• thearthroblogger.com/2020/10/13/beautiful-terrifying-mantis-shrimp

Sound genius, Rock Star & Johns Hopkins professor!

• www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHbciVrgcGA&ab_channel=mikesgigtv

Perception and Time

• www.newscientist.com/article/2352665-small-and-speedy-animals-perceive-time-faster-than-big-slow-creatures/

• www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-24078179