Karl Weis coordinates our twice monthly bird walks which usually take place on the 2nd and 4th Friday of each month.
Contact Karl for additional information. If you are interested in volunteering to lead one or more of these walks, contact Karl, because he LOVES volunteers to lead BONUS walks to new and/or unusual areas.
Also be sure to check out our monthly Field Trips.
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Weather conditions can necessitate changes to or cancelation of any trip.
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- Friday Bird Walk: Rocky Nook Park
Friday, October 10, 2025, 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Rocky Nook Park is a lovely oak woodland studded with tall sycamores trees. Mission creek runs along the eastern edge making this park a great riparian habitat where vagrants often are found.
- Friday Bird Walk: Toro Canyon Park
Friday, October 24, 2025, 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Toro Canyon Park is an oak woodland with chaparral foothills. Opportunities abound for a varied assortment of birds in this area.
- Friday Bird Walk - Elwood Mesa Sperling Preserve
Friday, November 7, 2025, 8:30 am - 10:30 am
With a size of 230 acres, the Ellwood Mesa Sperling Preserve is the largest publicly owned coastal preserve on the Santa Barbara South Coast. It is part of the 650+ acre Ellwood Devereux Open Space – a multi-agency open space that includes COPR, NCOS and the Ellwood Butterfly Grove. This sprawling coastal landscape is home to, and migratory stop-over of many avian species.
- Friday Bird Walk: Ennisbrook Preserve
Friday, November 28, 2025 - Saturday, November 29, 2025, 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Ennisbrook Openspace/preserve/trail, known to the locals as the “100 acre wood” is located along the San Ysidro Creek between East Valley Road to the north and San Leandro Lane to the south. It is a riparian area rich in Oak woodland with many tall sycamore trees which provide habitat for many of our avian friends. eBird reports 118 species for this area.
