Saturday, February 29

Ventura County Game Preserve 

NO FEE, SIGN-UP REQUIRED, LIMIT OF 15

Leaders: Cayenne Sweeney and Louis Tucker. Cayenne is a quality, up-and-coming, local birder that has been making waves in the birding community. Louis is especially enamored with raptors, and makes waves wherever he goes (in a good way)

This private duck hunting club in Ventura has a long history of producing the kinds of birds that only well-conserved, well-birded and disappearing habitats can lay claim to; including Virginia rail, American Bittern, occasional Ruff, Solitary Sandpiper, and single Lesser Sand-Plover and Wood Sandpiper records. Emphasis on this date will be late raptors and waterfowl, with shorebirds starting to move through.

Get to the preserve by taking the 101 Fwy W to Rice Avenue S, following the Rice Ave. prompts to the T-intersection terminus, then take Hueneme Rd. west (Rt.), take the first left turn on Casper, and proceed to the end. Details for access through the gate to the barn (6500 Casper Road, Oxnard) will be provided to signed-up individuals.

Meet at 8:00 a.m. Sign up by e-mail with Susan Castor, membership@laaudubon.org, giving city of residence. We will walk the property, so good hiking/mud shoes with energetic legs inside a plus. We may have one car. Scopes & FRS radios helpful. There is a slight chance of cancellation, so please check the LAAS website for trip status the day before.