Upcoming Field Trips

The quickest way to find out about upcoming trips and registration details is via our member's eblast (these will likely come out in the last week of month prior to the trip). If you have not already signed up for our eblasts sign up here.
Sign up and confirmation notes:

If the Google sign-up form for the trip you want to go on doesn't work the first time, try reloading the web page or restarting your browser, then try again.

If it's less than 3 days before a trip that you signed up for, and you think you should have gotten a message but haven't, try looking for it (carefully) in your spam/junk folder.

If these suggestions didn't help solve the issue, please contact us at fieldtrips@pasadenaaudubon.org .

November 8th: Los Angeles Arboretum Monthly Bird Walk

Sunday, November 8th, 2026

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Trip Leader: Catherine Hamilton

We are excited to partner with the Los Angeles County Arboretum to offer free monthly bird walks to PAS members. Please note that due to new rules implemented by LA Arboretum these trips will only be open to current PAS members (and not friends of members as in past years). In other words all persons attending must be current Pasadena Audubon members -- either on their own, or as part of a PAS family membership.

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This field trip is offered by reservation only. To reserve a spot go to https://www.arboretum.org/events/bird-walk-with-pasadena-audubon-8/. Registration is scheduled to open at 9 AM on Tuesday, November 2nd, 2026.

SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT REGISTERING FOR THE ARBORETUM WALK: Evidently when the monthly Arboretum walk has reached capacity, the sign-up form stops functioning correctly. This issue is beyond our control. If in doubt, sign up early!


PHOTO: Red-whiskered Bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus) by Luke Tiller.

November 14th: Late Fall at Santa Fe Dam

Saturday, November 14th, 2026, 7:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Trip leader: Luke Tiller

The sprawling Santa Fe Dam Recreational Area offers a variety of birding habitats with native sage scrub, a large lake, grassy lawns, scrubland and open woodlands. For this reason, it is one of the premier birding locations in the greater Pasadena area. Join Luke Tiller for a morning seeking out migrant and wintering birds at this exciting local birding site. Please note that there is an entrance fee of $15.00 per vehicle to enter the park ($8 for those 65 and over).

Participant number: No limit

PHOTO: Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus). Photo by Luke Tiller

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November 21st: Monthly Bird Walk at The Huntington

Saturday, November 21st, 2026
8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Trip Leader: Mark Hunter

This is a great walk for beginning birders and families, with easy walking and a nice variety of species present year round.

The Huntington is allowing a limited number of Pasadena Audubon members to enter the grounds for this walk without being Huntington members (thanks Huntington!). You must be a Pasadena Audubon member to attend this trip! Not yet a member? Sign up for PAS membership here and then return to this page.

By the way, if you are also a member of the Huntington at a level that allows you to enter the grounds at 8 am, please also make a reservation on their website. That way your attendance won't count against the limited number of passes the Huntington has given us here at PAS.

Photo: California Towhee (Melozone crissalis) by Chris Spurgeon

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November 21st: Parrot Roost at Pasadena City Hall

Saturday, November 21st, 2026
4:15 PM to 5:15 PM
Leader: Luke Tiller

The San Gabriel Valley is known nationally for its overnight roosts of Amazona parrots and Mitred and Red-masked Parakeets, and they've taken up residence at Pasadena City Hall! This Halloween, behold the Hitchcockian spectacle, as the suburban skies and soundscape are overtaken by cacophonous flocks returning from their daytime foraging sites to gather at the roosts, as they do around dusk during the non-breeding season. These parrots and parakeets are not native to the United States, but large populations have established themselves in the Los Angeles area and become an important part of the local ecosystem. Join Pasadena Audubon as we sort through the impressive numbers of parakeets and Red-crowned Parrots, looking for some of the less common species. For this trip, we will mostly be standing around letting the birds come to us. We may stroll slowly around the plaza to get closer to roosting flocks, but this will involve minimal walking on sidewalks.

Participant limit: none

PHOTO: Lilac-crowned Parrot (Amazona finschi). Photo by Luke Tiller.

Meet at the Jack and Mack Robinson sculptures at the southwest corner of Holly Street and Garfield Avenue.

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November 28th: Antelope Valley Adventure

Saturday, November 28th, 2026, 7:00 AM -- lunch time
Trip leader: Luke Tiller

The Antelope Valley is renowned as a great spot to see wintering raptors and more. We will hit a number of locations out in Palmdale and Lancaster looking for wintering specialties that tend to be harder to find on the coastal slope: Mountain Bluebird, Ferruginous Hawk, Prairie Falcon among others as well as the regular desert denizens like Bell’s Sparrows and Loggerhead Shrikes.

Participant number: 30, chosen by lottery.

Trip details such as how to get there and what to bring will be emailed to randomly chosen participants 3-5 days before the trip.

PHOTO: Raven (Corvus corax) and Ferruginous Hawk (Buteo regalis). Photo by Wendy Miller/flickr

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