It's For The Birds - Audubon Canyon Ranch

Aubudon Canyon Ranch where we hiked on February 24th (click here for a recap of that outing), opens to the public for the season this coming Saturday, March 14th. The San Francisco Chronicle's Tom Stienstra writes about the bird preserve in his weekly "Outdoors Getaway" article in the Thursday, March 12th edition of the paper.

The preserve will be open through the second weekend in July on weekends and holidays from 10am to 4pm (no appointment necessary), Tuesday - Friday (by appointment only) and closed on Mondays. The Griffin Trail (which we did not take during our hike) leads to an overlook of the trees where the egrets and herons nest.

For more information on visiting the ranch, call (415 ) 868-9244, or send an e-mail to acr@egret.org, or talk to Lillian Hanahan of our Tuesday "Meandering" group who is a docent at the ranch.