Save Mount Diablo’s Mangini Ranch Educational Preserve is over 200 acres situated between the Crystyl Ranch residential development in Concord and Lime Ridge Open Space in Walnut Creek. The preserve includes grassland, stream canyons, blue oak woodland, chaparral, and oak savannas. It’s home to rare species such as the northernmost stand of desert olive, rare […]

Join us for our next Beginners Bird walk at American Canyon Wetlands on Sunday, October 27 at 9:00 a.m.! It is migration season and anyone who has joined our walks before knows that the wetlands are a great place to be during this exciting time! So, if you are dipping a toe into birding, or […]

This Saturday, November 2, we will travel to and explore Lagoon Valley Regional Park. There will be rainstorms in the evening but the weather is looking to be a bit cooler but very little rain during our day. OVERVIEW Lagoon Valley consists of many hiking trails among the hills and canyons and groves of mixed conifers and deciduous trees. Many waterbirds are […]

About the Program: Learn about ‘the raptor advantage’ with this brief overview of what a ‘raptor’ really is; focusing on the main anatomical and physiological adaptations that are featured in these birds which are products of millions of years of evolution honing virtually every body part to a lifestyle that depends on being able to […]

  9:00 am - 12:00 pm NSAS Beginners Bird Walk, American Canyon Wetlands, Sunday, November 24, 9 am - noon. Rain cancels.