Get Your Nature Groove On!

Week of July 30, 2022

 Be Dazzled by Signs of Wildlife Up Close and Personal
Examine a variety of nature items and explore some of nature’s mysteries. Learn about native plants and their uses for medicines, shelter and food by Native Americans. Be awed by this nature exploration presentation, as Naturalist Educator Extraordinaire, Judie Lincer, shares fascinating wildlife tales and tidbits. Examine Barn Owl pellets, peer through scopes to see a magnified world that we don’t get to experience in everyday life. Learn about what wildlife and native plants live around Rancho La Puerta. Be dazzled by what we so often overlook that is right below our feet!. Judie will also share her “Museum in a Box” where you can examine a number of interesting nature items found out on trail and strategies of how to identify what you find (e.g., coyote, bobcat and scat, Barn Owl pellets, wasp galls, and interesting native plants that were used for a variety of purposes).

Join Judie for:
Bird Nest Building (Family)
Nature Scavenger Hunt ( 7–9 years-old)
Birding with Binoculars (10-12 years-old)
Nature Journaling (13 -17 years-old)
Whose Scat is That and Other Signs of Wildlife (Family)

 

 

 

Judie Lincer, M.S. Ed., is a Naturalist Educator with San Diego Audubon, who has over 25 years of teaching experience and guides hikes teaching about ecosystems, adaptations, ethnobotany (the study of a region’s plants and their practical uses through the traditional knowledge of a local culture). She is an enthusiastic speaker who teaches scientific-inquiry skills and inspires others to develop an appreciation of the environment and diverse ecosystems. Judie is a Workshop and Tour Director for the California Native Plant Society-San Diego, which educates the public about the benefits and beauty of using native plants in creating habitat in landscaping.