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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
McArthur-Burney Falls is the perfect destination to escape the heat of the valley, enjoy tremendous views, and to feel surrounded by nature. We will start our day with the Falls Loop Trail and after a break, we will venture north on the Rim Trail to see the sights on our way to Lake Britton. Please […]
Bring the kids and grandkids to this free event! Nature-loving children can enjoy a morning learning about Redding’s incredible bird populations at the Lillian Nelson Nature Preserve. Children will get a demonstration in bird identification techniques and learn about a variety of species present at the 30-acre preserve led by hosts from the Wintu Audubon […]
Bullock's Oriole Male Join us for our traditional end of the season picnic at the Camden House in the Tower House Historic District at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, June 14th. It is located on the south side of Highway 299 West just west of the turnoff to French Gulch. Bring your own brown bag dinner […]
We have enjoyed the birding and camping at the Lost Creek Group Campground for several years, so we are scheduling this event again this year in conjunction with Altacal Audubon. Due to the extended snow pack we have scheduled the event later than usual. Group Camp sites #3 and 4 have been reserved for the […]
We are again scheduling a visit to the ponds targeting waterfowl, shorebirds and migrating warblers. Assemble at the Treatment Plant’s Administration Building at the end of Metz Road at 7:30 am sharp to meet your leader, Larry Jordan. This is a 1/2-day trip that may end in the early afternoon if the birding is good. […]
