A Wintu Country Chapter of the National Audubon Society
“Warblers and Wood Ducks” is the theme of the bird walk at this gem of a park in west Redding. Meet on Thursday, March 9, at 9:00 at the bulletin board at the corner of Lakeside Drive and Mary Lake Drive. We will spend about an hour and a half walking one mile on a … Continue reading "Mary Lake Birdwalk"
This is a no fee area and a very active hotspot this time of the year, especially with all the recent weather events we have had in 2023 so far. We are planning to meet at the Bass Pond Parking Lot at, 22459 Bend Ferry Rd, Red Bluff, CA 96080, at the main entrances to … Continue reading "Payne’s Creek Wetlands"
Join Wintu Audubon Society for a walk on a mile of the Sacramento River Trail through the Turtle Bay Bird Sanctuary. Spring migration, the theme for this month’s walk, will be revving up as swallows, warblers, and orioles begin to stream northward to their breeding grounds. We will search the trees for their brilliant yellows … Continue reading "Turtle Bay Bird Sanctuary"
California Thrasher Battle Creek Wildlife Area is a CDFW fee area which can certainly handle and thrive with this winter’s wet season and provide us with great birding opportunities. Please join us at Wildlife area’s parking lot located at: 23999 Coleman Fish Hatchery Rd, Anderson, CA These 582 acres of riparian forests, marshes, and oak woodland … Continue reading "Battle Creek Wildlife Area"
With precipitation closer to normal this year, we are looking forward to some good habitat in the ponds at the City of Redding's Clear Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant. Bring your scope if you have one to help us scan for migrating shorebirds. Directions to the Clear Creek Plant: Take Hwy 273 south from Redding and look … Continue reading "Clear Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant"
Time to celebrate Earth Day in a whole new way! Wintu Audubon Society will have a booth at a new Earth Day Celebration on Saturday, April 22, 2023, from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in Caldwell Park. Help us celebrate our environment at this special event and at participating organizations’ events throughout April! You may … Continue reading "Earth Day Festival"
Join trip leader David Garza at 7am at the bulletin board at the corner of Mary Lake Drive and Lakeside Drive for a three hour walk around Mary Lake. Wood Ducks are always expected as well as a variety of other waterfowl, herons, egrets, songbirds and most likely warblers.
Located in the foothills below Mount Lassen, the 37,540-acre Gray Davis Dye Creek Preserve is an expansive landscape of blue oak woodlands, volcanic buttes, and rolling wildflower fields. The landscape is dissected dramatically by Dye Creek Canyon with its vertical cliffs, clear-water creek, and diverse riparian forests. The forest widens as it leaves the canyon … Continue reading "Dye Creek Preserve Outing"
Emily Wells is the Conservation Program Manager for Conservation Farms and Ranches, The Nature Conservancy’s related entity managing California's Staten Island. She first started working on Staten as a temporary avian technician in 2013 and left to pursue her masters degree in Range and Wildlife Management at Texas A&M Kingsville where she studied the wintering … Continue reading "The Nature Conservancy’s Emily Wells on Sandhill Cranes"
Join us on a birdy exploration of the City of Redding’s newest trail, Kum Bay Xerel. Once known as Riverland Drive Open Space, the area has been renamed in recognition of the Native American Wintu people in our community. Kum Bay Xerel means “Shady Oak Village” and now has a parking area and a paved, … Continue reading "Kum Bay Xerel Trail"