Name: Guided Birding Hike - Hornsby Bend Bird Observatory
Start: 2026-11-01T15:00:00.000Z
End: 2026-11-01T17:00:00.000Z
Location: Hornsby Bend Bird Observatory, S FM 973, Austin, TX

Plantersville

Join us for a SoBirding outing! This is beginner-friendly birding, we’ll introduce you to the basic techniques for observation of birds, and help learn to ID birds. Open to absolutely anyone, any skill level or person. Nothing needed except to show up and be ready to experience birding.

A birding walk is somewhere in-between a hike and a casual walk. We’ll go about 1-to-1.5 miles in total, but slowly with plenty of stops for listening and watching the world around us.

Hornsby Bend is an excellent place to go birding with a variety of ecosystems accessible via easy walking distance. Plus, views of the Colorado River and an excellent, forested, river-side trail.

Hosted by a Certified Naturalist and birding enthusiast Zach Bowers.

Bring water, wear sunscreen and consider a hat & bug spray. I’ll have extras of each of those things. Wear shoes you’re comfortable walking in for about two hours.

If you have binoculars, great! Please bring them, but they aren’t needed.

Arriving:
Hornsby Bend is inside an Austin Water Facility and asks for ID at the gate. Please remember your id.

After entering, there is a jut-off road to the left which goes up toward the ponds and bird blinds. Stay left until you reach the bird blind & parking area. Google Maps takes you straight there. Apple Maps will leave you short, keep going while staying left.

Hiking

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Guided Birding Hike - Hornsby Bend Bird Observatory

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