Field Trip: Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge

Join us for one of our most popular annual field trips to Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge! Each year, we’re treated to an incredible display of thousands of Snow Geese, swans, and dozens—sometimes hundreds—of Bald Eagles throughout the refuge.

If you’d like to carpool from Kansas City, we’ll meet at the MHTD commuter lot (2575 Platte Falls Rd, Platte City, Missouri) at 7:30 a.m. We’ll then gather at the Loess Bluffs Visitor Center parking lot around 8:45 a.m., beginning our first loop of the 10-mile auto tour at 9:00 a.m.

We’ll return to the visitor center parking lot around 12:30 p.m. for lunch and a restroom break before making a second pass around the loop in the afternoon.

Please bring a sack lunch, snacks, binoculars or scope, field guides, and FRS radios if you have them. Dress in layers—conditions are often cold and windy this time of year.

This trip is open to all, and you’re welcome to come and go as your schedule allows. We hope you can stay through dusk to witness a breathtaking sunset and the spectacle of thousands of blackbirds descending on the refuge.

***Be aware: this trip is very weather related. If for any reason we decide to cancel this trip it will be posted Friday by 10:00pm*** 

Trip Leader: Mark Land | kestrelland@gmail.com | 816-590-9814

Featured Photo: Bald Eagles by Aaron Baggenstos