Our Preserve is currently graced by a beautiful feathered visitor from the Pacific Northwest…the Lewis’s Woodpecker. The Lewis’s Woodpecker was reported on Nov. 24th on eBird and spotted on the Nov. 27th Birding Hike.

Greetings everyone! Jeanie here. I lead some of our bird hikes in the Preserve and want to introduce you to several of our summer visiting avian favorites, all in the passerine or perching bird family. These birds visit to breed and enjoy the fine dining during summertime in San Diego.

Jim worked alongside Bill Witzell and the Rangers three days a week — save for rainy days, a personal rule owing to his career as a mail carrier. His boisterous laugh and boyish curiosity in all things made him an ideal working companion

Bill was a longtime resident of Rancho Peñasquitos and began his volunteer career in 1997 as a founding member of the Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve Volunteer Patrol.