LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Redbud Audubon Society’s popular annual Heron Days event is filling up slots on its upcoming tours.

The event takes place over two weekends at two different locations: Lakeside County Park on Saturday, April 27, and Sunday, April 28, and at Clear Lake Campground on Cache Creek in Clearlake on May 4 and 5.

This event features pontoon boat tours to view birds and other wildlife on Clear Lake.

Tickets are going fast for this year’s tours at both locations. Many tours for April 27 (leaving from Lakeside County Park) are sold and the April 28 tours from the same location are filling up fast as well.

The May 4 and 5 tours into Anderson Marsh from the Clear Lake Campground are also filling fast. Three tours are already sold out but May 5 from Clear Lake Campground still has plenty of openings.

Check out www.redbudaudubon.org to see what is still available, register for a boat ride and pay online.

If you can’t pay via the website for some reason, call the Audubon phone number: 707- 263-8030 and leave a message but please note reserving by phone makes extra work for volunteers.

The 90 minute tours will leave between the hours of 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. The tour fee is $30.

Tours from Lakeside County Park follow the shoreline where numerous grebes, cormorants and other wildlife can be viewed as well as an active Great-blue Heron rookery, or nesting site.

The trip from Clear Lake Campground travels into Anderson Marsh and along Cache Creek, which is the location of another heron rookery and may be hosting nesting and mating Western and Clarks Grebes.