Author: Jim Houghton - Page 8
Jim has slowly learned how to operate a fairly primitive WordPress website. It doesn't look like much, but all the SFVAS information anyone needs is here. Gifts of good-quality white wine are welcome but not required.
August 1, 2015
Piute Ponds Treat
Piute Ponds is a favorite birding spot and many of our members in the Antelope Valley and Santa Clarita areas visit it often for birding. The Lancaster Photography Club has invited out members to attend a meeting about the site and how to obtain wonderful photographs there. The meeting will be held at the Senior…
June 17, 2015
Chatsworth Nature Preserve Ecology Pond drying up!!
We are approaching a serious emergency with the Ecology Pond at Chatsworth Nature Preserve. The pond is close to drying up, and DWP has thus far refused to provide any make-up water under the guise of the drought. Please review the attached flyer being distributed by area residents. We need to contact DWP managers and…
May 23, 2015
Just Sit Back and Bird! by Jeanne Kolasz
Saturday, May 9 was great weather for the “Big Sit” Birdathon event at the Sepulveda Basin. Jeanne Polak- Recht and Linda Jones were both there to lead the event. Jeanne reports sightings of 21 species. Eight people were there to sit on chairs or cushions or the ground to enjoy nature and wait for birds…
May 14, 2015
Exploring the wilds of Los Angeles with bird-watcher Scott Logan
Saturday, May 2nd marked Bird LA Day – a citywide celebration of all things birds, with nature walks, a bird sketching workshop and a picnic along the LA River. I met up with birding enthusiast Scott Logan at Franklin Canyon Park, located in a beautiful canyon above Beverly Hills, in the eastern part of the Santa Monica Mountains. “All…
May 11, 2015
Let’s Go Native!!
There will be a free garden show entitled "Let's Go Native" on May 17th from 10 to 5 at the Tarzana Community Center, 19130 Ventura Blvd (corner of Vanalden). Alan Pollack, our Audubon-at-Home chair, will be tabling there with lots of information to hand out and giving his somewhat curtailed slide show/lecture entitled "Restoring Habitat, One Yard at a Time"…
May 9, 2015
Birders On The Move by Jeanne Kolasz
It was a busy day for Mark Osokow and his Birdathon group! They began at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, where the highlight was an American Pipit. From there they traveled to Sage Ranch, Chatsworth Oaks Park, Chatsworth Hills Reserve, and Brown’s Canyon. The group was able to view a colony of Great Egrets in…
May 8, 2015
PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE by presenter: Steven L. Hartman
SEPULVEDA BASIN WILDLIFE AREAS May 12 · 7:30 - 9:00pm PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE The Sepulveda Basin is the home of a Wildlife Area with an 11-acre lake, the Bull Creek Ecological Restoration Area, one of only 3 soft-bottomed portions of the Los Angeles River, Encino Creek, Woodley Creek, Hayvenhurst Creek, and Lake Balboa. The Sepulveda…
May 1, 2015
Art Langton reports from the field.
Flying Solo Along Highway 33 Art Langton reports that he stopped at eight locations along Highway 33 from Ventura Marina to Ozena Station for his solo birdathon event on April 29. If McGrath State Park had not been closed due to flooding from the Santa Clara River estuary, it would have been nine! Among the…
April 30, 2015