Dallas is Going Wild for Birds

At the risk of receiving another batch of shut-up-about- birds e-mails, I venture forth with this news. On April 23, the president of the National Audubon Society, John Flicker (is that a perfect name or what?), will be in Dallas to break ground on the new Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center. Of course, most of you already know that Dogwood Canyon is where the first sighting of the endangered golden-cheeked warbler in over 35 years was recorded in 2001, so I won’t bore you with too many details. The $7.4 million center will open in spring 2009. In the meantime, the trails that cover over 270 acres on the White Rock Escarpment, just southwest of downtown, are open for exploration. If you hurry you can still catch the flowering dogwood trees.