Notes about your surroundingsYorba Regional Park Field...

Notes about your surroundings

Yorba Regional Park Field Trip--South Coast Audubon, a chapter of the National Audubon Society, is hosting a field trip to Yorba Regional Park in Anaheim on Saturday.

The 166-acre park is along the Santa Ana River in Santa Ana Canyon. It is home to a variety of birds, including wintering bluebirds as well as various warblers, ducks and other waterfowl.

The trip will start at 8 a.m. and will finish about noon.

The park is at 7600 E. La Palma Ave. in Anaheim. To reach the park, take the Riverside Freeway to the Imperial Highway exit. Go north to La Palma Avenue, then turn right. The park’s main entrance is about two miles. There is a $2 entrance fee. After entering the park, turn right, go past the first lake, then turn left and park in the lot near the restrooms.

For further information, call (714) 858-8698 or (714) 830-7806.

Tour Featuring Special Guest--Cheryl Hefley of the California Department of Fish and Game is the invited guest speaker at a tour of the Upper Newport Bay Ecological Reserve to be held Saturday.

The event is sponsored by the California Department of Fish and Game and the Orange County Department of Harbors, Beaches and Parks.

The topic of Hefley’s talk will be “A Biologist’s Work Is Never Done.”

The tour will begin at 9 a.m. at Shellmaker Island, which is off Backbay Drive in Newport Beach. The event is free and open to the public.

For more information about the tour and other programs at Upper Newport Bay, call the Fish and Game office at (714) 640-6746.