Among the many birds observed on New Year’s Eve 2020 was the Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (pictured above), photographed by Birder Lena Hayashi. In 3 hours and 36 minutes on a calm, 48-62 degree New Year’s Eve day, 9 birders observed 36 species and 382 birds. Birders were delighted to meet Jack, an 11-year-old HB Tree Society [...]
Eight birders spent 3 hours and 7 minutes on this month’s survey on a 54-60 degree, sunny, calm, clear day. There were 36 species observed (331 individuals) [...]
Marina Key Club kids enthusiastically trimmed and planted on a sunny Saturday morning in the Urban Forest and along the Shipley to Shore Nature Trail. At left, this cluster of boulders beautifying the trail will soon double as a water feature for bird baths in a hummingbird forest that is beginning to grow. The students [...]
Extra credit goes to La Quinta High School Honor Society students for coming out to plant buckwheat, cistus and other California natives alongside the Urban Forest and Shipley to Shore Trail [...]
Go Oilers! On a September Sunday the HB Oilers basketball team and their parents worked in four areas of the Urban Forest and along the Shipley to Shore Nature Trail. They all worked so hard and made great progress. Thanks for the full-court press! [...]
