Join guest leader Heather Cameron and Jack from Wild Birds Unlimited for a summer walk on Mount Burdell. We’ll be listening to the tail end of the birdsong season and looking for young birds from all the summer breeders, including potential Bullock’s orioles, lark and chipping sparrows, lazuli buntings, and various swallows and flycatchers. Click through for details and free registration.
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Mount Burdell Bird Walk
Join guest leader Heather Cameron and Jack from Wild Birds Unlimited for a summer walk on Mount Burdell. We’ll be listening to birdsong season and looking for young birds from all the summer breeders, including potential Bullock’s orioles, lark and chipping sparrows, lazuli buntings, and various swallows and flycatchers. Click through for details and free registration.
Mount Burdell Bird Walk
Join Jack and Corrina for a summer walk on Mount Burdell. We’ll be listening to birdsong season and looking for young birds from all the summer breeders, including potential Bullock’s orioles, lark and chipping sparrows, lazuli buntings, and various swallows and flycatchers. Click through for details and free registration.
Valley Oak
The valley oak is the monarch of all western oaks, and perhaps of all the oaks of North America. Even in their grandest individuals, few other species attain the vast, sweeping spread that Quercus lobata regularly achieves. Here in Novato, we are fortunate to have some class A, first-rate, top-shelf valley oak habitat. While more coastal parts of the county do excel us in conifer forests, our relatively drier inland climate offers the ample consolation of the noble valley oak savanna.
Mount Burdell
If any geographical feature has risen above the flat valley of Novato’s civic and commercial life to achieve a visible prominence in the mental landscape of its citizens, that feature is Mount Burdell. It’s a name that vividly conjures up the idea of a place to thousands of Novato citizens, of a sunlit expanse of green hillsides dotted with wildflowers and vast, benignant oaks. And no time is better to visit than spring, when the mountain fills with the songs of newly arrived migratory songbirds.