Leader: Hilary Powers (GGAS)

Fellow OAS birders, let’s get out there for some mid-summer birding! We’ll join the GGAS “4th Wednesday Walk” at Lake Merritt and Lakeside Park in Oakland. Hilary Powers from GGAS is the leader, and Stephanie Floyd from OAS will be along to help with sightings and offer up scope views. Summer can be a quieter time to be out birding, but good birds are found year-round at this park due to its different habitats: the lake, the botanic garden, the oaks by Fairyland. Who knows what we might find? Meet at the large spherical cage near the Nature Center at Perkins and Bellevue. We will bird around there, then go up the garden path toward Children’s Fairyland or walk down the lake toward Embarcadero, after which we will cover what we missed. Public transit: Take the 12, N, or NL bus to Grand and Perkins, and walk into the park on Perkins. Driving: The boathouse lot near the spherical cage is the best spot to park, but there’s plenty of parking along Bellevue between the boathouse and the nature center. Enter via Bellevue near Children’s Fairyland; the $2 “two hour” pass is probably OK even though the trip is about three hours, as the dashboard cards don’t have a start time on them.