Kick off the new birding year with NTOS as we head west to the beautiful Hatchie National Wildlife Refuge! We will join trip leader Mark Greene for a morning walk around O’Neal Lake, where we’ll search for flocks of wintering waterfowl and scan the surrounding fields for seasonal specialties. Our walk will largely take place

What better way to brighten up chilly February than with two NTOS field trips on the calendar? First up: Saturday, February 14th, when we’ll head to one of Tennessee’s premier birding hotspots, the Fowler Road Irrigation Pond. Trip leader Avery Fish knows this site very well and has turned up an impressive list of species

For our second field trip of the month, we’re staying close to home and heading to one of Nashville’s popular birding spots: Cornelia Fort Airpark in Shelby Bottoms Park. Trip leader Ariel Dunham, an expert on the birds of Shelby Park, will guide us on this outing on Saturday, February 28th. This trip offers a

Come explore Lytle Park, one of the newest gems in Nashville’s expanding park system! Our fall field trips to this park have consistently drawn great interest, and this year we’re switching things up with a visit in a different season. March brings a unique blend of lingering winter species and the earliest signs of spring