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Long-billed Curlew by Vinayak Hebbagil

Members Only Field Trip: Coastside Birding at Moss Landing (Monterey County)

Moss Landing, the town in the north-side of Monterey county, is a great place to view birds that utilize mudflats as well as those that are by the coast. We will start our birding from Jetty road which allows us to look into Elkhorn Slough and the area is home to a variety of shorebirds such as Willets, Marbled Godwits, Black bellied Plovers, Semipalmated Plovers and more. Additionally, we will be on the look out for various species of gulls and terns in the channel. We'll then walk along the Moss Landing State beach shore, to look for sandpipers, plovers, sanderling, scoters, grebes, loons and cormorants.

These areas are also home to Harbor Seals and Sea Otters so we will keep an eye for them too!

Trip Difficulty: 2-3 miles, paved trails, little or no elevation gain, the trail will be paved pathway along Jetty road and it will be sandy on the beach

Leaders: Vinayak Hebbagil (585) 705-6643 and Shweta Shidhore (585) 748-5117

Members Only

Meet: End of Jetty Rd

Directions: From Highway 1 South, take the Jetty Road on the right, and proceed until the end of the road. Park on any of the pullout parking spaces and meet at Latitude/Longitude 36.809779, -121.788501

Facilities: porta-potty

Parking Type and Fees: no fees, dirt pullouts

Questions? Email general questions to fieldtrips@scvbirdalliance.org or contact the trip leader for questions regarding the event.