Make your reservations as soon as possible! Our home base will be the Comfort Inn Sea World Area motel at 3880 Greenwood St., San Diego. You can stay there or elsewhere, and we’ll be leaving from there at 7:30 AM for the day’s birding. Please RSVP!
We will work our way down the Point Loma peninsula, stopping at the Fort Rosecrans Cemetery, then down the Cabrillo National Monument and the famous “Drip”. This area is quite the migrant stop over. Just about anything is possible. When done, we will work our way back up the peninsula, stopping at Famosa Slough, then on to the Tijuana Estuary. There have been sightings of Little Blue Herons, Yellow-crowned Night Herons and Reddish Egrets there. Time permitting, we will try some of the fields in the Hollister-Dairy Mart-Monument Road area.
We will return to the Comfort Inn Sea World Area motel for the traditional wine and cheese party and re-hydration event.
Sunday, we will probably hit La Jolla Cliff early (before the traffic) looking for oystercatchers and the like, then on to Mission Trails Regional Park. Mission Trails Regional Park is a chaparral type park, but with a fair bit of water. This stop may change depending on the water supply. I will know more after my scouting run.
I typically make a scouting run the weekend before a scheduled trip. I will therefore submit an updated email on the following Monday or Tuesday evening. Please check our website for a general outline of how our San Diego weekend will probably progress.
Meet: We will convene at 6:50 AM Saturday at the Comfort Inn Sea World Area, at 3880 Greenwood St., San Diego. Please make arrangements so that we have at least four people in each car. Some of the places that we need to pull over at are well-traveled.
Bring: Figure on two sack lunches, the usual bird watching stuff and some sun screen. As with all of our wine and cheese parties, creativity is in order. Scopes will be a definite plus.
Trip Leader: Jay Oberholtzer
IMPORTANT RSVP: Either by email at tvulture@earthlink.net or telephone my office at 562-945-2838.