Many thanks to Carolyn Vance and all the volunteers for their hard work at the Refuge! To sign up for Public Land’s Day at Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge, before 9/24/18, please call 562-598-1024 for a reservation and specify “Lands Day Planting”. Also thanks to Carolyn for all her work on our Twitter Page, she posts a […]
We have a lot of great events and walks scheduled for our new year beginning in September. You should be receiving our September newsletter in your mailbox soon. Our first program of the year begins with Tom Ryan on Least Terns, details below. At the refuge the September tour is a National Public Lands Day […]
** Class is now full** This workshop is now closed, with 7 people on the wait list. Please contact Anne Maben at afmaben@gmail.com close to the workshop to see if there will be any openings. For those who registered please watch your email for communications from the instructors, if you can’t make it to class […]
I really enjoy reading about other birds seen in my area. The usual suspects that frequent my yard include the beak-clicking Black Phoebe, somewhat elusive Lesser Gold Finches, flitting Bushtits, occasional Orange Crowned Warbler and White-Crowned Sparrow, swooping Anna’s Hummingbirds, and often noisy, but intriguing American Crows. Moreover, let us not forget the ubiquitous House […]
Sneak peek of the President’s column in our June newsletter — it’s been an amazing year and a lot of upcoming activities are planned…stay tuned! Celebrating Summer, Field Trips and Events Thoughts from the President – Mary Parsell “Never Give Up Listening to the Sounds of the Birds,” -Audubon. This summer we are looking forward to […]
Saturday June 23rd, 2018, from 8am to 12 noon join El Dorado Audubon & El Dorado Nature Center for a morning of trash cleanup in the park. Bags and supplies will be provided by the Nature Center. Along the way we’ll watch and ID the numerous birds common in this area. We’ll meet at the […]
By Carolyn Vance Our last walk of the season wasn’t as birdy as I expected it to be, but we still saw 20 species! We had up close looks at Bushtits and were able to distinguish male from female. I learned that, during breeding season, males have black eyes and females have pale yellow eyes. […]
By Carolyn Vance, USFWS Volunteer, Seal Beach NWR Eyes on the Colony (EOTC), the Least Tern predator monitoring program, needs your help! Last year was not as successful as it could have been with no more than 16 fledglings ever seen at one time out of 120+ chicks. This was primarily due to all the […]
By Carolyn Vance The first two bird walks at Rancho Los Cerritos have proved to be very popular, especially with novice birders. Welcome to the wonderful world of birds and bird watching! Our final walk of the fiscal year is on Thurs., Apr. 12th, at 8:00 a.m. Meet in the parking lot of the Rancho; […]
Check out this March article about El Dorado Audubon in The Grunion: http://www.gazettes.com/news/environment/better-beach-better-world-long-beach-audubon-keeps-up-the/article_df40b570-2492-11e8-9dcf-bba0222e71d4.html
Cindy Crawford
Cindy Crawford