Registration is required for this field trip and will be limited to 15 participants. Please email Chris to register.

Field Trip Leader: Chris Conard

We will focus on Michigan Bar Road and may visit portions of Latrobe and Meiss Rds, though access depends on road conditions and recent weather. Vast areas of open grassland and blue oak woodland interspersed with rocky outcrops and the Cosumnes River provide habitat for winter raptors, resident and winter songbirds, and perhaps a surprise or two. We’ll have a mix of birding near the vehicles and short walks along lightly-traveled gravel roads. (Bring FRS radios if you have them.)

Steady rain will cancel the trip. There are no facilities on the remote roads, but we’ll make a bathroom stop when moving between locations.

Directions and confirmation of exact meeting location will be provided upon registration.

Ferruginus Hawk, Image by Daniel Lee Brown