How to resolve AdBlock issue? LOWER LAKE, Calif. – Anderson Marsh State Historic Park continues to hold monthly guided nature walks.
The next walk is scheduled Saturday, Feb. 14.
Come to the Park on Valentine’s Day for a visit with the “birds and the bees.”
There will be no tour of the Historic Ranch House Museum in February.
Park docent and AMIA volunteer Billy Gear will lead the walk.
The plan is to hike the Cache Creek Nature Trail, with an option to do the Ridge Trial, if the trail across Anderson Flats is dry enough.
The theme of the walk will be “Early spring – flowers, buds, birds and insects.”
Bring binoculars and meet at 8:15 a.m. in the parking lot for time to experience the early morning wildlife to be found in the Ranch House and Barn complex yard. The walk will begin at 8:30 a.m.
Many of the trees are “naked” in the winter, making it easier to see birds.
Some of the birds recently seen in the park have been wood ducks, phainopepla; acorn, Nuttall’s and Lewis’s woodpeckers; red-shafted flickers; cedar waxwings; spotted and California towhees; cormorants; white-tailed kites; red-tailed and red-shouldered hawks; great egrets and great blue herons; kingfishers; red-winged blackbirds and robins.
This also is the time of year that snipe, white-throated sparrows, a bobcat and deer have been seen off the boardwalk on the Cache Creek Nature Trail.
Heavy rain will cancel the walk.
There is no charge for those attending.
Anderson Marsh State Historic Park is located on Highway 53, between Lower Lake and Clearlake.
For more information about the walks, email
For information about how you can help support AMIA’s campaign to keep the park open to the public and thriving, please visit www.andersonmarsh.org or contact them by telephone or email.
