Join San Diego Bird Alliance staff in tracking vegetation growth at the California Least Tern nesting preserves in Mission Bay.

The monitoring helps to inform enhancement efforts for the future to ensure that the habitat is suitable for nesting in the coming years. All while volunteers have to opportunity to build professional development skills by learning vegetation monitoring sampling methods. 

Come prepared in close-toed shoes, long pants, hat, suncreen, etc. No previous experience is required, we'll go over the protocol together and provide all the tools needed. 

Example of quadrat vegetation sampling in South Bay

Event Start Time: 9 AM

Event End Time: 12 PM though you are welcome to leave as needed

DIRECTIONS TO NORTH FIESTA ISLAND

Nesting Site Location: North Fiesta Island (32.785122, -117.215448)

Directions:

• Once on Fiesta Island: Slight right to stay on Fiesta Island Rd. At the fork, go right.
• Do not follow signs to the San Diego Youth Aquatic Center, just continue down the road.
• After about a quarter mile, begin to drive slowly as the preserve entrance is easy to miss. You’ll be looking for a chain link fence with a gate and signs that say “California least tern nesting area.”
• Drive through the gate to enter the preserve and park against the fencing.
• If you start to curve left and wrap around the island, you’ve gone too far.