Los Gatos Birdwatcher

Reservations Required
For Summer Nature Series and Let’s Go Birding events.
Call the Los Gatos Birdwatcher at (408) 358-9453 to reserve your space.

Los Gatos Birdwatcher Summer Nature Series 2013

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED • SPACE IS LIMITED
$8 / Child for Each Class
Call (408) 358-9453 to Register

Fun Feet
Thursday, July 24
For ages 3 to 5: 10:30 – 11:30 AM
For ages 6 to 12: 1:00 – 2:00 PM

Meet us at Vasona Lake to find out about animal feet. Search for critters and discover what their different feet are designed for. Look for tracks and make some of your own. Wear shoes that you don’t mind getting wet.

Flying Friends
Thursday, July 31
For ages 3 to 5: 10:30 – 11:30 AM
For ages 6 to 12: 1:00 – 2:00 PM

Come to Belgatos Park to find out about all sorts of flying friends and their different styles of flight. Hike with us on the trails to find butterflies, damselflies, bees and birds. Color you own bird airplane to fly across the field.

Super Smellers
Thursday, August 7
For ages 3 to 5: 10:30 – 11:30 AM
For ages 6 to 12: 1:00 – 2:00 PM

Come to Los Gatos Birdwatcher to discover how different creatures smell. Visit a live snake and some backyard bug friends. Investigate scents and test your own sense of smell.

BelGatos Park
BelGatos Park is located at the south end of BelGatos Road. From the store go east on Blossom Hill Road. Just past Leigh Avenue, turn right on BelGatos Road and follow it to the parking lot at the end. Since the BelGatos Road Sign is small, look for the more noticeable green Mulberry School sign directly below it. Map

Oka Ponds
We will meet at the gate at the end of Oka Lane. Take Lark Avenue to Oka Road and follow it under Highway 85 to the end. Turn left on Mozart and take an immediate right on Oka Lane. Go to the end of the road and park along the street. Map

Vasona Lake
We will meet at the gate by the dam on Garden Hill Drive. From Lark Avenue turn onto Garden Hill Drive (opposite the southbound 880 Lark Avenue Exit) then veer to the right at the fork in the road. Meet at the gate at the next bend in the road (before you get to the Santa Clara County Dept. of Recreation and Youth Science Institute buildings). Map

Saturday Morning Local Bird Walks

Join us every Saturday morning for an enjoyable meander looking for birds.

Call the store Friday nights after 7 PM to find out where we are going the next morning. Except for our once a month all-day field trips, we go on a local bird walk from 8 to 10 am and return for bagels and shade-grown coffee. Some of the nearby places we go to are Oka Ponds, Guadalupe Oak Grove Park, Belgatos Park, Almaden Lake Park, Shoreline and Charleston Slough.

No Charge

Sunnyvale Audubon Walks

First Wednesday of
the Month

Aug 6, Sept 3, Oct 1
Noon to 1pm

Bring your binoculars (loaners are available) and meet Freddy at the Sunnyvale Pollution Control Plant where Borregas and Caribbean meet off of 237. After entering the plant turn left at the first stop sign and continue to the end of the parking area. We will see raptors, shorebirds, and lots of ducks.

No Charge

Let’s Go Birding
with Lisa Myers to see the Condors

Saturday, August 16
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

We’re going back to Big Sur in hopes of finding the magnificent California condor. With their 104″ wingspan, this vulture is not a bird you will ever forget seeing, especially since the birds we experience today were brought back from the brink of extinction. This area of California offers spectacular habitats consisting of riparian creek sides, tall Redwood Forests and rolling woodlands, not to mention coastal cliffs and kelp beds. Come help us find one the North America’s largest birds, along with many other species in between. (Los Gatos Birdwatcher will match up to $50 in donations collected this day to donate back to Ventana Wilderness Society.)

Fee: $30 per person + share of gas.