Blake Garden Bird Walk

Leader: Sonja Raub, scraub@gmail.com, 510 919-7132

Date: Tuesday May 12 – 8:30 to 11 a.m.

Description: Come enjoy the spring flowers and green trees in the garden. See the birds in action building nests and raising their young. Breeding birds in Blake Garden include Anna's and Allen's Hummingbirds, Lesser Goldfinch, Wilson's Warblers, Chestnut-backed Chickadees, Oak Titmouse, Bushtits, Song Sparrow, Spotted and California Towhees, House Finch, Hutton's and Warbling Vireos, American Robins, Brown Creeper, Red-breasted Nuthatches, Bewick's Wrens, Crows, Ravens and Cooper's hawks. Perhaps there may even be some rarities 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. 

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 in the parking lot (free parking) at 70 Rincon Rd., Kensington, 94707 at 8:30am. We will bird for approximately two-and-a-half hours.

Limit:12

Directions: We meet at 8:30am at the Rincon Rd. gate. From Arlington Blvd take a left onto Rincon Rd at the flashing light across from the Kensington Library if you are coming up the hill and a right if you are going down the hill.

Google map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/b8kC9UWNk3vxbdur7

Registration opens Tuesday April 21 at 1 pm and closes on Monday May 11 at 11 pm.