Author: Jim Houghton - Page 3
Jim has slowly learned how to operate a fairly primitive WordPress website. It doesn't look like much, but all the SFVAS information anyone needs is here. Gifts of good-quality white wine are welcome but not required.
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November 22, 2017
Christmas Bird Count 2017 — Join Us on 12/16!
For the 60th straight year, the San Fernando Valley Audubon Society will join chapters across the country and in North/South America, Hawaii, and the Caribbean to take part in the National Audubon Society’s annual Christmas Bird Count. The CBC is one of the many ways Audubon helps scientists, researchers and the interested public keep track…
September 17, 2017
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Another Successful Coastal Cleanup Day for SFVAS
Yesterday, Sat. 9/16, forty or so hardy and dedicated volunteers showed up for SFVAS’s Fall Cleanup of Haskell Creek in the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve. As part of the Heal-the-Bay Coastal Cleanup Day, our workers made a significant contribution to healthy waterways for wildlife and human visitors. Two hundred and fifty pounds (more or less)…
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September 11, 2017
Happy SBEEP New Year!
SFVAS’s Sepulveda Basin Environmental Education Program is about to start a new season. Once again, we’re proud and happy to welcome groups of LAUSD children to the Wildlife Reserve for educational, exciting outdoor field trips. School budgets being what they are, SBEEP is often the only excursion students get to experience all school year. Begun in 1993…
July 27, 2017
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Over 62? Time to Buy That Pass!
If you are 62 and over and frequently use any of the birding sites on lands covered by the "America the Beautiful - The National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass - Senior Pass" and you haven't purchased your lifetime senior pass yet (or have lost yours and have been intending to replace it) BUY IT NOW!! The…
July 24, 2017
Cavity Conservation Matters to Birds — and You Can Help!
The Tree Care for Birds and other Wildlife Project in California (http://treecareforbirds.com) asks for your level of interest in being added to a list of Audubon Chapters/birders and wildlife biologists who might want to be hired (or help on a volunteer basis) to take calls from tree care providers who have a bird related question…
May 15, 2017
1st Annual Children’s Bird Day A Big Success!
There were three important numbers for our first Children’s Bird Day at the Sepulveda Basin on Sunday. The first was 17. That’s how many enthusiastic children attended from Mar Vista Elementary School, City Charter, New West Charter, and Kester Magnet Elementary School. The second important number is 37. That’s how many species were identified…
May 8, 2017
Audubon California Advocacy Day in Sacramento
Audubon California’s annual advocacy day is coming up. It is a pretty amazing event where you can meet chapter members from across the state. Audubon California has set up legislative appointments -- they partner up attendees to go and speak with their state senators and assembly members about environmental and conservation bills that protect and…
April 10, 2017
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They’re Trying to AngelFest Us Again!
Woodley Park. The place we fought so hard to keep a huge music festival out of -- remember that? We succeeded, but now smaller events are moving into the park. They've been chased out of other parks and it's time for us to chase them out of Woodley Park. These groups use "encoded" Facebook pages…
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April 2, 2017
Let’s Do Birdathon!
San Fernando Valley Audubon's annual Birdathon is our principal means of financing SBEEP, the Sepulveda Basin Environmental Education Program. SBEEP works with LAUSD schools to bus children into our Wildlife Preserve for an exciting, educational field trip. Our trained SBEEP guides and leaders treat the kids to a rare outdoor experience. We supply binoculars for…
March 16, 2017
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