Check the vegetation near the boardwalk for warblers, vireos, cuckoos, flycatchers, tanagers, and grosbeaks and pay special attention to the round mound oak motte that often hosts a great number and diversity of species.

From Packery Channel Park, you can walk down the main entrance road and turn right onto Sand Dollar Avenue, where the Audubon Outdoor Club's Oak Motte Sanctuary is located. There will likely be additional birds there.

Year round you will see Gulls, Herons, Egrets and numerous shorebirds. During fall and spring migration the oak motte is a great place to see warblers and other migrants. You will also see lots of butterflies.

Packery Channel Nature Park is a 38 acre park located on the Laguna Madre side of North Padre Island. The park has habitat protection bollard controls and paved roadway, improved shoreline parking and two kayak launch areas, nature observation and birding boardwalk and pavilion, hummingbird and butterfly garden, bird fountains and drip stations, a nature interpretive signage, picnic area and benches, planting of native trees, shrubs, and forbs. The park has a large, protected oak motte at the park's entrance which is a very popular bird watching attraction. The bollard system protecting the oak motte was funded by a grant from the Texas Coastal Management Program and the Coastal Coordination Council. A pavilion and boardwalks also exist that have been provided by the Coastal Bend Bay and Estuaries Program. 

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