Field Trips

FIELD TRIPS WITH LOS ANGELES AUDUBON

Field trips often require more driving and time in the field than do our bird walks. No pets or children under 12 please.

Reservation policy: When you sign-up via e-mail or provide us with your e-mail address with your mailed in payment, your confirmation / trip information will be sent to you in an email sent from This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . If you do not have convenient e-mail, you may always substitute a SASE and provide your phone number(s). No pets or small children (under 12) please.

CARPOOLING

Fee and Sign-up Required: Contact information WILL be released to others inquiring about carpooling on "FEE" and "SIGN-UP REQUIRED" field trips, unless requested otherwise at time of sign-up.

NO Fee and NO Sign-up Required: If you wish to share your name and contact information on a carpool list for all other "NO FEE" or "NO SIGN-UP REQUIRED" field trips, call (323) 876-0202. Provide your contact information: name, daytime telephone, day-of-event telephone, and the date and destination of the event. Leave a message on the answering machine, if we are unable to answer your call.

Envelopes for donations to support Los Angeles Audubon and its field trips will be distributed on some non-fee trips. Please support LAAS field trips.For more information about LAAS field trips email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

MAILING ADDRESS
Los Angeles Audubon – Field Trips
PO Box 931057
Los Angeles CA 90093-1057

Updates and announcements are posted to our website.

No sign-up Field Trip Big Morongo May 12

Big Morongo Wildlife Preserve

Saturday, May 12, 2012
NO FEE, NO SIGN-UP
Leader Howard King

Meet at 8:00 a.m. in the preserve parking lot, or 7:00 a.m. at Covington Park next door. Breeding desert and oasis birds such as Brown-crested and Vermilion Flycatchers, Summer Tanager, Scott’s and Hooded Orioles, Yellow-breasted Chat and migrating Empidonax flycatchers. To get there, take the 10 Fwy E about 17 miles past Banning to Hwy 62 N. Pass through the town of Morongo Valley, take a right on East Dr., then a left into the preserve (or straight to Covington Park). Bring lunch, water, sensible clothing and sun block. Yucca Valley and Desert Hot Springs offer nearby accommodations, or camp at Joshua Tree NP. No sign up.

Carpooling:

NO Fee and NO Sign-up Required: If you wish to share your name and contact information on a carpool list for "NO FEE" or "NO SIGN-UP REQUIRED" field trips, call (323) 876-0202. Please leave us your contact information with: name, daytime telephone, event day telephone, and the date and destination of the event. Leave a message on the answering machine if we are unable to answer your call.

Small Owls of the San Gabriels, 19 May - Event Full

Small Owls of the San Gabriels

Saturday, May 19, 2012

NO FEE, LIMITED SIGN-UP (10)

Leaders: Mary and Nick Freeman
We will be looking for Flammulated, Saw-whet, Northern Pygmy and Western Screech-Owls. Sign up, and meet at the bottom of Angeles Crest Highway at 6 PM. Take the 210 Fwy to La Canada, exiting at Angeles Crest Hwy, turn uphill, and turn right into the second small street, and quickly left onto the ACH frontage road. Meet along the first 50-yard stretch, fed and gassed up. Bring quiet cold weather gear (no nylon if possible), a small walking flashlight, binoculars, powerful flashlight optional. LAAS telephone (323) 876-0202 or e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it sign-up mandatory. 10 max.

*As of May 2, 2012 This field trip is full with a wait list. No More sign-ups being taken.

*See also Big Bear Lake Vicinity field trip with owling at night, July 14, 2012

No sign-up, Field Trip May 27 Santa Anita Canyon

Santa Anita Canyon, Sunday May 27, 2012

NO FEE, NO SIGN-UP
Leader: David Koeppel
Take the 210 Fwy toward Arcadia, and take Santa Anita Avenue N to the parking lot at the very end of the road. Meet at the Gabrielino Trail trailhead at the bottom of the lot. Moderately strenuous 4 mile walk through oak and chaparral canyons. This area was spared by the fires of recent years. Good selection of breeding and migrating birds including warblers, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Western Tanager, and Band-tailed Pigeon. Pack in a lunch and water. Meeting time 7:00 a.m. A Forest Service Adventure Pass is necessary.

Advance sign-up for Owl Banding in the Mountains Field Trip, 2 June

Owl Banding in the Mountains

Saturday, June 2, 2012
NO FEE, LIMITED SIGN-UP, 12 max.
Leaders: Mary and Nick Freeman

We will be looking to fondle and ring Saw-whet, Flammulated and Western Screech-Owls. If we get owls in the net, we will collect biometric information for the USGS at Patuxent, Maryland. If not, we will listen to the owls mocking us, and/or exchange birding and banding yarns.

Advance sign-up for High Sierra Field Trip Long Weekend June 22-25

High Sierra Breeding Birds

June 22-25, 2012 Long Weekend
$15/DAY FEE, LIMITED SIGN-UP
Leader: Bob Barnes
150 species likely in 4 days. High deserts to High Sierra. The most diverse, species-rich region in the state. Likely: Goshawk, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Pileated Woodpecker and owls. Meet in Inyokern at the 76 Station for Friday morning’s start. All other days start early in Kernville.

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