California condors need our help

California condors need our help

California condor photos taken by Michael Klatt during a March 2016 trip up the coast to San Simeon. In 2013 nine condors released in central California died.  Lead toxicosis, when it could be determined, was the cause of the deaths.  During that same year,...
Winter visitors

Winter visitors

February 9, 2016 post from Mike and Ruby: This evening we watched cedar waxwings catching and eating insects in flight.  They usually eat fruit, but sometimes they will eat insects.  There must have been about fifty of them in the small oak trees in front of...
Honors for Oak Ambassador Alumnus Nathan Sharon

Honors for Oak Ambassador Alumnus Nathan Sharon

Congratulations, Nathan Sharon! Nathan is a Santa Margarita School and Learning Among the Oaks/Oak Ambassador alumnus who has been honored with the Randy and Sally Knight Scholarship Award. This award honors youth who demonstrate outstanding commitment to conservation...