Blake Garden Bird Walk (Kensington)

Leader: Sonja Raub  scraub@gmail.com, cell 510 919 7132 (Sonja)

Date: Tuesday, September 2 – 8:30 to 11 a.m.

Description: It's fall migration in Blake Garden. The summer resident birds are slowly leaving the garden in exchange for our winter residence such as the Hermit Thrush, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Townsend and Yellow-rumped Warblers and Golden-crowned and Fox Sparrow.  Come enjoy a beautiful fall day looking for birds, flowers and trees in fall color in the garden. Perhaps there may even be a vagrant roaming the garden. 

The Blake Garden is a public landscape laboratory. In 1957, the Blake Estate was deeded to the UC Berkeley’s Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. With many horticulture and native plants and 90+ documented bird species, the garden is a model for many sustainable practices such as composting, rainwater-catchment and apiculture. One of the gardeners will give a brief introduction and history of the Blake Garden. There are new art displays on exhibit from Landscape Architecture fall semester graduate students and undergraduates.

Enjoy the exchange of birds in the Blake Garden. The dirt and gravel trails go up and down-hill and are well maintained. There are stairs and uphill/downhill grades with potentially slippery sections on the trails. Restrooms are present on the premises. Please bring binoculars if you have them. Scopes are also welcome. We will meet at 8:30am at the Rincon Rd. gate and we will bird for approximately two-and-a-half to three hours.

Trip Size: 25 people

Directions:  We will meet in the parking lot (free parking) at 70 Rincon Rd., Kensington, 94707 at 8:30 a.m..

Google map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/XLEy8g6WZeBK32mM6

Registration for this event will open at 1pm on Tuesday August 19 and close at 11pm on Monday September 1