4.  Birds of Bernardo Bay

The ESP Café will be OPEN at 8:30. Join us for juice, coffee, light breakfast items and great conversation!

Recommended Reading: 

SAN DIEGO:  An Introduction to the Region by Dr. Philip R. Pryde

• Chapter 17: Keeping it Clean: Maintaining Environmental Quality.

• Chapter 18: Saving the Pieces: The Effort to Conserve San Diego’s Biodiversity.

COAST TO CREST AND BEYOND: Across San Diego by Car along the San Dieguito River

by Wolf Berger, Ph.D.

• Chapter 4: Lake Hodges and San Pasqual Valley: Pages 70 - 82.

• Appendix III: Birds of Lake Hodges: Pages 138 - 139.

We will meet at the Ed Brown Senior Center in the Rancho Bernardo Community Park at 8:30am and the presentation will begin at 8:45.  The Senior Center is located at 18402 West Bernardo Drive, San Diego, CA 92127, (858) 487-9324, EdBrownCenter.org.  

Dr. Phil will bring a birding scope that all may share.  If you have binoculars, this is a good time to hike with them.  One of us will be asked to be the Record Keeper.  The Record Keeper will keep track of each species that we identify.  At the end of the hike, you will find yourself amazed at how many species we will have been able to observe. 

The 2-mile trail is rated easy, it's a flat loop located at the edge of Lake Hodges.  Our lunch and Reflection time will take place on and around a large granite outcropping that overlooks Lake Hodges.  Bernardo Mountain will loom in the background.

After lunch and Reflection time, we will continue on the loop back to the Ed Brown Senior Center.  The optional extended hike is an easy walk to the David Kreitzer Lake Hodges Bicycle Pedestrian Bridge. 

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