Birds of a feather flocked collectively on the Taylor Bird Parade final weekend.
Good Life Taylor hosted its second Bird Parade Saturday, April 6 at Murphy Park.
Julie Rydell of Good Life Taylor stated the occasion began final 12 months to lift consciousness in regards to the distinctive birds that decision the island in Murphy Park home.
“We really do have a precious resource here,” Rydell stated of the park’s rookery. “And it’s something we should be promoting, not only for the birds, but for keeping our parks clean.”
Parade members dressed up as birds, fowl watchers or characters related to the phrase “bird.”
According to Rydell, there have been inventive costumes worn comparable to somebody dressing up as former National Basketball Association participant Larry Bird and one other dressing because the historic determine, Lady Bird Johnson.
Rydell stated over 100 folks got here to the occasion, with about half of them in costume. She stated the attendance was larger than final 12 months.
“People were excited to kind of be around like-minded folk,” Rydell stated. “We had a lot of people wave at us while we were walking down the street.”
Afterward, fowl consultants from Texas Parks and Wildlife and Good Water Chapter Master Naturalists gave displays. This 12 months’s parade included a reside fowl show by All Things Wild Rehabilitation, a craft desk and a efficiency by ACC’s Afro-Cuban ensemble on the Percussion Park.
“All Things Wild brought a pelican that’s in rehab and then they also brought in a duck that is getting a 3D-printed bill,” Rydell stated.
A coloring contest for youths in second by way of fifth grade was additionally a part of the festivities. The young artists might both coloration in an already-designed image or draw a piece of their very own.
Rydell stated the rookery is various, with extra than simply cattle egrets staying within the lake.
She stated the rookery hosts a number of totally different species of herons and egrets together with nice blue herons, nice egrets, home geese and geese, snowy egrets, little blue herons, inexperienced herons, doublecrested cormorants, tropical cormorants, yellow-crowned evening herons and black-bellied whistling geese.
Good Life Taylor is a nonprofit that raises money for group occasions and group tasks with a particular deal with the town’s parks division. One of the organization’s extra recent tasks is the completion of Percussion Park, which was funded final 12 months.
