Event

Saturday Shorebird and Seabird Stroll at Ravenswood

A Forster's tern flies at Ravenswood. Credit: Rachel Tertes
A Forster's tern flies at Ravenswood. Credit: Rachel Tertes

As we celebrate the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration's 20th anniversary, Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge's 51st, and World Conservation Day, you can come explore a Menlo Park hidden gem for migratory shorebirds and nesting waterbirds!

You'll take a leisurely stroll with Wildlife Biologist Rachel Tertes along a Ravenswood pond with bird nesting islands just south of Dumbarton Bridge. You'll view a variety of waterbirds, including nesting terns and early visitors from the fall shorebird migration, and learn about the Restoration Project. 

Habitat Restoration at Eden Landing (Hayward)

Save The Bay volunteers at Eden Landing. Credit: Judy Irving, Pelican Media
Save The Bay volunteers at Eden Landing. Credit: Judy Irving, Pelican Media

Join Save The Bay at Eden Landing Ecological Reserve to help restore former industrial salt ponds into healthy salt marsh habitat! 

Save The Bay staff and volunteers will pull invasive plants using hand picks and gloves to give the native marsh plants put in over the winter a chance to establish themselves. 

Register or add the event to your calendar here.

Restoration at Ravenswood!

Save The Bay volunteers
Save The Bay volunteers

You can come join Save The Bay at the Restoration Project’s Ravenswood Ponds to help clear invasive plants and make room for native seedlings! 

Native plants are the backbone holding the earth at the newly constructed All American Canal upland transition zone together. The invasive species we will be pulling threaten to crowd them out and deprive all of the species (including humans!) that benefit from healthy salt marshes.

Least Tern Colony Viewing

Event flyer
Event flyer

Join biologists at Eden Landing Ecological Reserve to view one of the few breeding colonies of the endangered California Least Tern in the San Francisco Bay! 

The group at the free San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory (SFBBO) event will look for adults incubating nests, young downy chicks being fed by their parents, older feathered chicks running around the colony, and fledglings learning to fly!

Participants are urged to bring their own spotting scopes. SFBBO will have a few to share.

California Invasive Species Action Week Restoration at Ravenswood!

A volunteer at work. Credit: Save The Bay
A volunteer at work. Credit: Save The Bay

Come join Save The Bay at their Ravenswood site to participate in California Invasive Species Action Week! Invasive species degrade habitat by crowding out the California native species that our landscapes and wildlife have adapted to live with. The crew will be pulling invasive plant species to make way for the native plants that Save The Bay staff and volunteers put in the ground earlier this year to support healthy salt marsh ecosystems. Please dress according to weather and bring water. 

Eden Landing Walking Tour

Old Alameda Creek in southern Eden Landing Ecological Reserve
Old Alameda Creek in southern Eden Landing Ecological Reserve

Join us for a walking tour to learn about South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project Phase 2 recreation, restoration and flood risk management plans for southern Eden Landing.

The 2- to 3-mile guided field tour will be held, along with a van tour that required RSVPs and now has full registration, at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s reserve. The walking tour does not require reservations.