FAA Island, Mission Bay

Saturday, April 10, 8:45am – 1pm

The San Diego Audubon Society invites volunteers to help restore a special nesting site for endangered California Least Terns on Saturday, April 10th, from 8:45am to 1pm. We’ll be working at FAA Island, a small island just west of Fiesta Island that is used for air traffic control purposes and is usually closed to the public.

 

Unfortunately, this site is full of vegetation and invasive plants and so cannot be used by the terns for nesting and rearing their young. We’ll be working to clear this vegetation and to prepare the site for the arrival of the terns in late April.

 

Wear work clothes (long pants, long-sleeved shirt, hat, and sturdy shoes) and sunscreen. We’ll provide gloves, snacks and water. If you have a hoe or trowel that you would like to use, please bring it with you (otherwise we can hand-pull the plants).

 

Please be advised there are no restroom facilities on site – we will do our best to provide shuttle rides back to Campland as needed.

 

Volunteers will be shuttled by boat from Campland by the Bay to FAA Island. Please arrive promptly at 8:45 at Campland on the Bay’s boat launch area to sign in and catch a shuttle boat to the island.

 

Campland on the Bay is located at 2211 Pacific Beach Drive, San Diego 92109.

 

Parking will be available inside the park as well as outside the main entrance at the end of Pacific Beach Dr – if you park inside Campland be sure to let the person manning the entrance booth know you’re a volunteer for this project.

 

Please RSVP for this event by contacting Shannon Dougherty at dougherty@sandiegoaudubon.org or 858-273-7800 x101.