Registration is NOT required for this field trip.

Yellow-billed Magpie, Image by Chris Conard

Field Trip Leader: Nancy Gronert

This trip will focus on birding by ear skills and best practices with the Merlin Sound app. Ancil Hoffman Park is a recreational park run by Sacramento County. The 396-acre park, dotted with ancient oaks and bordered on two sides by the American River includes a nature preserve with riparian and oak woodlands, shrub lands, meadows, and aquatic habitats. We’ll check out the trails, river, and trees for the calls of wintering sparrows, kinglets and thrush, and year-round birds like woodpeckers, towhees, and wrens and whatever else we can detect.

Meeting Location: Meet Nancy at Ancil Hoffman Park in the picnic parking lot across from the golf course parking lot.

Directions: From California Ave in Fair Oaks, take the Tarshes Drive entrance and follow it all the way to the last parking lot on your left.

Parking & Fees: A Sacramento County Parks Pass or a $6 day use fee is required.

COVID 19 Precautions: All participants, including field trip leaders, must be vaccinated.

Heavy rain cancels.