King Gillette Ranch Field Trip

King Gillette Ranch 26800 Mullholland Hwy, Calabasas, CA

Meet at the parking area at 8 am. This park offers a wide variety of birds. Leader TBA - check with Dee Lyon (805) 427-0987

Bird Friendly-Garden Tour

See what folks have done with California natives in their gardens. RSVP by April 15th! More information.

Wheeler Gorge Field Trip

Wheeler Gorge 17020 Maricopa Hwy, Ojai, CA

Meet across the street from the park at 9 am. We’ll look for higher elevation species. Leader is Matthew Page - (805) 990-6534

Monthly Program – May 2022

CVAS Monthly Program Zoom Meeting

Sandor “Alex” Havasi and his wife, Marilyn Fordney, will take us to visit a variety of wet-land locations in our area with stories about their experiences while taking photos of thebirds they found in each place. They’ll also report how these areas have been affectedby encroachment and the effect of weed killers. Each photo will...

California Lutheran University Field Trip

Briar Bluff (CLU) 200 Bainbridge Ct, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360, Thousand Oaks, CA, United States

Meet at north end of Mountclef Blvd at 8 am.We’ll look for Cactus Wrens and California Gnatcatchers.Leader is Dennis Allen dkallen47@gmail.com

Beginner Bird Walk – Rancho Sierra Vista / Satwiwa

Rancho Sierra Vista / Satwiwa 4803 Lynn Rd, Newbury Park, CA

Conejo Valley Audubon invites birders of all experience levels to attend our monthly Beginner Bird Walks at Rancho Sierra Vista/Satwiwa. These walks are held on the second Wednesday of each month. We will meet at 8:00 am at the main parking lot, which is accessible off Lynn Road at Via Goleta in Newbury Park.  Rancho...

Las Llajas Canyon Field Trip

Las Llajas Canyon 5715 Evening Sky Drive, Simi Valley, CA, United States

North on Yosemite Ave, right on Evening Star Dr, Simi ValleyMeet at the trailhead at 8 am. Hilly terrain, bring water.We’ll look for Lazuli Buntings, grosbeaks and flycatchers.Leader is Don Klabunde (805) 522-8023

Mission Oaks Park Field Trip

Mission Oaks Park 5501 Mission Oaks Blvd, Camarillo, CA, United States

Mission Oaks Blvd and Oak Canyon Rd, Camarillo.Meet in the parking lot at 8 am.We’ll look for spring Migrants.Leader is Thelma Williams (805) 551-8663

CVAS Annual Picnic

Los Robles Trail 375 Greenmeadow Ave, Thousand Oaks, CA

Meet at 8:00 am for the morning bird walk, then at 10:30 for thepotluck lunch.Were it not for the pandemic, this would have been the twenty-first year in a row that our CVAS Annual Picnic was held at theLos Robles Trail area adjacent to the original Janss House inThousand Oaks, and there have been some...

Warbler Bingo!

Townsend's Warbler Test your skills at spotting and identifying elusive Fall Warblers. Our contest runs from September 1st through November 30th. You may request a free Bingo Card starting on August 15th. See the Warbler Bingo page for all the details and to sign up. As of September 20, 2022, we have a winner! Marc...

Santa Clara River Estuary

Surfer's Knoll 1600 Spinnaker Dr, Ventura, CA

The Santa Clara River Estuary produces some of the most diverse observations of ducks, sandpipers, terns, gulls, plovers and other shorebirds in the county. We’ll meet at Surfer’s Knoll at 9 am and walk down to the estuary after peeking over the fence into the Ventura Settling Ponds. The estuary should be a great place...

Laguna Tams

Laguna Road Tamarisk Trees 3690 Laguna Rd., Oxnard, CA, United States

We will visit the renowned tamarisk trees along Laguna Road in the Oxnard Plain. Previous September visits have yielded views of Black-and-White, Tenessee, Orange-crowned, Lucy’s, Nashville, MacGillivray’s, Magnolia, Bay-breasted, Blackburnian, Yellow, Chestnut-sided, Blackpoll, Palm, Yellow-rumped, Prairie, Black-throated Gray, Townsend’s, Hermit, and Wilson’s Warblers. We might also encounter Pacific-slope Flycatcher, Warbling Vireo, Ruby-crowned Kinglet and White-breasted...