Registration for this field trip is CLOSED.

This field trip is full.

Field Trip Leader: Sonja Sorbo

Blue-winged Teal,
Image by Daniel Brown

This winter trip offers fantastic opportunities to view waterfowl, and it's one of the more reliable places near Sacramento to see Blue-winged Teal. Sometimes thousands of geese take flight over the water to the delight of birders. Other species to expect for the day include passerines, wetland birds, and raptors. We will spend some time walking the trails which are all well graded and on level ground. After lunch, we'll take a drive around the auto loop. If there's time and if the group agrees, we'll drive home to Sacramento via a different route looking for Sandhill Cranes, grassland birds, and raptors.

Additional Information: A CDFW Lands Pass is required by this refuge. You may purchase a CDFW Lands Pass in advance or be prepared to pay at the entrance or iron ranger. Be prepared for cold damp weather. Scopes and FRS radios will be helpful. Rain or thick fog cancels this trip.

COVID 19 Precautions:

• All participants must register in advance to attend. Registration for this field trip will be limited to 6 participants. Registration for this field trip will open on December 6 at noon.

• All participants, including field trip leaders, must be vaccinated.

• Field trip participants should maintain adequate social distance.

• There will be no sharing of binoculars, scopes or other optics on any field trips.

• Field trips leaders are authorized by the Sacramento Audubon Board to cancel field trips if unregistered participants attempt to join or stated precautions are not met.