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    🏝️Island Scrub-Jay Pelagic trip to Santa Cruz Island

    Channel Islands Harbor (Oxnard) 3600 Harbor Blvd, Oxnard, CA, United States

    This trip is organized by Island Packers, not CVAS.  Tickets must be purchased through them either on the Island Packers website https://islandpackers.com/oxnard-to-scrub-jay/ or call (805) 642-1393. The cost is $138 per person. Leaves from Oxnard Harbor. Please arrive at 7:15 a.m., 45 minutes prior to depature. We will take our time on our way over...

    $138

  • 🗻Mount Pinos

    Mt. Pinos Cuddy Valley Rd., Frazier Park, CA, United States

    Join us as we go into the mountains to find some alpine birds. To carpool, meet at 6 am at the Janss Park & Ride, located on the east side of the 23 freeway at the Janss Road Exit by the soccer fields. Alternatively, meet at 8:00 am at the Mt. Pinos Nordic Base parking...

  • Bird Walk – Camarillo Outlets

    Leader is John Mueller (818) 625-9584 Our first field trip of the year will begin with an easy location perfect for locating Fall migrants. Meet at 8 am at the corner of Camarillo Center Drive and Plaza la Vista, near the Crossroads church behind the Camarillo Outlets. Best parking is at the outlets along Camarillo...

    Free

  • Santa Clarita River Estuary – Beach Bird Walk

    Meet at 8 am at the Surfer's Knoll parking area off Spinnaker Dr. Best parking is along Spinnaker as the parking lot now requires a fee. Target species will be fall shorebirds such as godwit, sandpipers, plovers, curlew, willet, whimbrel, yellowlegs, gulls and perhaps phalarope or something unexpected, . Expect to walk at least a...

  • Warblers at Bob Kildee Park

    Meet at 8 am at the corner of Eston St. and Curt Dr. near the baseball fields in the center of Camarillo. Target species will be warblers, vireos, tanagers, orioles and whatever else we can find along the tamarisk trees on Eston St. We will be discussing the CVAS Warbler Bingo game and how to...

    Free

  • Sycamore Canyon Campground & Beach

    Meet at 8 am at the paid day-use parking area at the campground. Parking is $3/hr. Target species will be fall migrants and perhaps shorebirds at the beach. We won't be walking through anyone's campground, just the main roads near the parking area, the old bridge and then perhaps the beach across the street depending...

  • Hawk Watch – Grant Park in Ventura

    Meet at 8 am at the parking area by the Serra Cross in Grant Park in Ventura. Target bird will be the Broad-Winged Hawk which has been recently spotted here. Last year it was first seen on Sept. 29th until Oct. 10th. Bring good walking/hiking shoes as we may climb modest trails. There may be...

  • Arroyo Vista Community Park in Moorpark

    Meet at 8 am in the parking lot at the far end of the park off Tierra Rejada in Moorpark. We’ll look for all sorts of birds around the park and in the adjacent stretch of Arroyo Simi. There may be youth sports taking place, so come early. Leader: John Mueller (818) 625-9584 for info...

  • Pipits, Plovers and Pipers of the Oxnard Plain

    Meet at 8 am at the end of Arnold Road at the parking area. We can carpool back out to the fields depending on attendance to ensure we don't crowd the side of the road. We’ll spend about an hour on the Arnold Road sod fields and then caravan over to Casper Road where these birds...

  • Conejo Creek Park North

    Meet at 8 am in the parking lot on the southern end near the exit. We will then walk a loop of the park to listen and look in the riparian area and grass for migrants and common park birds. This location may have returning waterfowl such as American Wigeon, and the trees and shrubs...

  • Rancho Simi Community Park

    Meet at 8 am in the parking lot nearest the swimming pool off Royal Av west of Erringer Rd. Rancho Simi Community Park is a hot spot that offers up a variety of habitat such as a pond with an island, old sycamores, stands of conifers, and the adjacent Arroyo Simi. Resident species include Canada...

  • BIRD OUR PARKS

    This will be a social birding experiment where we as Ventura County residents will bird our neighborhood parks and see what kind of birds we can find. Birds commonly visit our parks so we will use social media (such as our new “Conejo Valley Audubon Society (CVAS)”  WhatsApp community group from your phone) to count...