Bird Walk on Mount Sutro
Sat, Aug 28
|Aldea Community Center
Come join the experts from the Golden Gate Audubon Society for a bird walk on Mount Sutro!
Time & Location
Aug 28, 2021, 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Aldea Community Center, 155 Johnstone Dr, San Francisco, CA 94131, USA
About the event
Leaders: Whitney Grover, (831) 421-2949, , and Pat Greene, cell (415) 481-5469, . wlgrover@gmail.compjgreene@sonic.net
Meet at the Aldea Community Center, 155 Johnstone Dr at 8:00 AM. The UCSF Mount Sutro Open Space Preserve is a 61-acre remnant of more than 2000 acres of eucalyptus trees planted by Adolf Sutro. UCSF has instituted a long term management plan for the OSP with the initial phase focused on removing dead and dying trees to improve fire safety. Some tree replacement planting is evident, and the Sutro Stewards are maintaining the native plantings at the summit meadow and utilizing openings along trails for further conservation planting. UCSF has commissioned GGAS to do a survey of bird and butterfly populations. The survey is in it's second year.
We’ll walk about two miles, with significant climbing on mostly well-graded trails with some rocky spots and exposed roots (). We’ll look and listen for birds,…