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Summer - Fall 2010
Field Trips Chair, Claude Edwards (e-mail or phone (619) 282-8687). Please call to assure the trip is not cancelled.
All trips are open to the public at no charge. The Thomas Guide is used to provide trip locations for most of the trips below. Please carry water, snacks, sunscreen, binoculars and a hat.
Hiking shoes are recommended for all trips.
Fire, floods, road closures and other unexpected events can change our locations. Rain cancels.
FIELD TRIP LEADERS WANTED:
San Diego Audubon's Field Trip Committee is recruiting volunteers to lead and co-lead upcoming field trips. Knowledge and experience about birds and habitats is important but willingness and enthusiasm to share with others are very desirable as well. We also need help planning and setting up future field trips. If you are interested, please contact Claude Edwards
Note: Tecolote Canyon birdwalks take place on the 4th Saturday of each month led by volunteer Anitra Kaye. They start at 9 am from the Tecolote Nature Center, Thomas Guide 1268, F-2, (858) 581-9959.
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CANCELLED DUE TO CONFLICTING CIVIC EVENT
Lindo Lake Park , Lakeside (Thomas Guide Page 1232: Grid B-3)
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Saturday, September 4, 8 to 11 am
Leaders: Peter and Millie Thomas (858) 571-5076
Lindo Lake Park is fun spot for birding year-round. It features a two-part pond with a sidewalk that nearly encircles it and a cross-road dividing it in the middle. Narrow shorelines, cattail patches, numerous varied trees provide habitats for herons and egrets, ducks and geese, woodpeckers and blackbirds.
From State Route 67 northbound, exit at Mapleview Street. Turn right onto Maine Avenue. Go two blocks to Lakeshore Drive, at a four-way stop. Turn left and meet in the parking lot on the right beside the Community Center. Easy walking on generally flat ground. Restrooms.
Chula Vista City Parks (Thomas Guide Page 1310, Grid B-5)
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Thursday, September 9, 8 to 11 am
Leaders: Jack Friery, (619) 218-7342 and Paul Zepf
Memorial Park and Friendship Park are located in the midst of downtown Chula Vista and offer welcome green-space for human visitors and birds. They are situated a block apart but are very different in terrain and landscape cover. Memorial Park has a cement-lined creek and sloped ground with fewer trees. Friendship Park is generally flat and features a greater number of trees of different species. They can be busy with migratory birds such as flycatchers, warblers, vireos, tanagers and orioles.
From I-5 exit at E Street and turn left heading east. Go to Third Avenue and turn right. Go just past F Street and turn right on Park Street. Park along this road and meet by the Memorial Park restroom, 373 Park Street.
Fledgling Birders At Lake Murray (Thomas Guide Page 1250: Grid F-5)
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Monday, September 13, 8 to 11 am
Leader: Gary Grantham, (858) 635-6635Lake Murray is the southernmost part of Mission Trails Regional Park. This field trip visits the north end of Lake Murray. It features a well-used community park, marsh vegetation, groves of eucalyptus trees, and native sage scrub. A mixture of water and land birds can be found including great blue heron, species of waterfowl, osprey and red-tailed hawk, as well as a variety of land birds.
From I-8 go north on Lake Murray Blvd. to Baltimore Drive, and turn left. Continue for a mile and turn left on Jackson Drive. Then turn left onto Golfcrest. Go another mile to the Mission Trails Park entrance on the left. Meet in the parking area near the softball field bleachers. Restrooms.
Rose Canyon (Thomas Guide Page
1228, Grid D-4)
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Sunday, September 19, 8 to 11 am
Leaders: Jim Wilson, (619) 295-8875 and Rich Breisch
Rose Canyon is a protected open space area supporting live oak and sycamore woodland, willow riparian woodland, and coastal sage scrub plus annual grassland. A dirt road provides access along its entire length. Year-round birds include red-tailed hawk, black phoebe, scrub-jay and both towhees. Migratory birds are regularly encountered.
Take State Route 52 to Genesee Avenue and go north, past Governor Drive. Turn right at the traffic light onto Centurion Square into the University City High School parking lot, 6949 Genesee Avenue. Meet in the first parking area to the right. No facilities. From I-805 exit at Governor Drive. Go west to Genesee Avenue and turn right. Follow as above.
Tecolote Canyon Natural Park (1268: F-2)
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Saturday, September 25, 8 to 11 am
Leader: Anitra Kaye; (619) 517-1168Tecolote Canyon is one of several protected ‘urban canyons’ that still support native plant communities and associated bird life. Restoration activities have increased the area of habitats utilized by familiar birds such as California quail, California thrasher and California towhee, western scrub-jay, black phoebe, bushtit and wrentit. A host of seasonal migrants also pass through this enjoyable area.
Exit I-5 at Tecolote Road. Go east, away from the freeway, past Morena Blvd., to its terminus, which ends in a parking lot. Meet by the Nature Center. Restrooms.
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Daley Ranch
Saturday, October 02, 8 to 11 am
Sweetwater River Channel
Thursday, October 07, 8 to 11 am
Fledgling Birders at Santee Lakes
Monday, October 11,
8 to 11 am
San Elijo Lagoon
Sunday, October 17,
8 to 11 am
Tecolote Canyon Natural Park
Saturday,
October 23,
8 to 11 am
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