点评:We attended the Attwater Prairie Chicken festival. The event is free! The new visitor center is fantastic! However, they are already having septic issues! That's a concern. If the bathrooms stop working there are no others on site. Google maps leaves you in the middle of the road about a 1/2 of mile away, so when it says you have arrived continue for a little longer to the visitor center. There was a lack of details that would have been nice to know beforehand. For example that we get on busses and are driven for 15 minutes to the viewing platform, and as every new group comes the previous group needs to leave. So you have about 15 minutes with the birds. It would be better to have more platforms if possible. As a side note if you come on your own it is rare to see any Attwater Prairie Chickens since the birds mainly reside on the non public area of the refuge. In order to have the highest chance outside of the festival event join one of the monthly van tours they offer. The other way to have some luck seeing them is to do the self guided auto tour, which is open to the public all day. The volunteers for the event had very little information about how the day was working besides what was on the calendar. The facility definitely needs an event coordinator for this weekend event. I feel like this should have been published more as an event around Texas because this is such an amazing experience! I only saw a couple of social media postings, but no events on any platform were created. For example the Sandhill migration events are more widely published. Please attend this event and support the refuge.
翻译:我们参加了阿特沃特草原鸡节。活动免费!新的游客中心棒极了!然而,他们已经出现了化粪池问题!这很令人担忧。如果卫生间坏了,现场就没有其他卫生间了。谷歌地图显示你位于路中间,距离大约半英里,所以当它显示你已到达时,你还需要继续行驶一段时间才能到达游客中心。有些信息如果事先知道就好了。例如,我们乘坐巴士,需要15分钟才能到达观景台,每有一组新鸟到来,之前的一组就需要离开。所以你大约有15分钟的时间与鸟儿相处。如果可能的话,最好能有更多的观景台。另外,如果你独自前往,很少能看到阿特沃特草原鸡,因为它们主要栖息在保护区的非公共区域。为了在节日活动之外有最大的机会看到它们,可以参加他们每月提供的面包车之旅。另一个有机会看到它们的方法是参加全天向公众开放的自助汽车游。除了日历上的安排外,活动的志愿者几乎不知道当天的具体安排。这个保护区绝对需要一位活动协调员来负责这个周末的活动。我觉得应该在德克萨斯州多宣传一下这个活动,因为这真是一次非常棒的体验!我只看到了几条社交媒体帖子,但并没有在任何平台上发布任何活动。例如,沙丘羚羊迁徙的活动就发布得更广泛。请参加这次活动,支持保护区。