Marina Boardwalk Bird Walk with Morro Coast Audubon

An intermediate bird walk works the State Park marina boardwalk

In Morro Bay State Park. Morro Coast Audubon leads an intermediate-level bird walk along the State Park marina boardwalk on Saturday, August 22 from 8 to 11 AM, free with registration and limited to 12. The boardwalk is where the estuary meets the moorings, and three hours of flat, easy walking covers one of the most productive edges of the whole bay, mudflats on one side, marsh and eucalyptus on the other.

This one is pitched a notch up from the beginner sessions: the leaders ask for some field experience and an eBird account, since the group logs its sightings as it goes. That makes it a genuine skills-building morning for birders ready to move past pointing and toward recording, with scopes on the flats and the estuary’s late-summer shorebird traffic providing plenty to log.

Registration is required through Morro Coast Audubon and the dozen spots go quickly. An 8 AM start means marine-layer conditions on the water, so layers and a warm hand around the coffee are standard kit. The marina parking area serves the boardwalk directly. The State Park day-use setting means heron rookery views are a bonus possibility on the walk in.

For more birding and estuary mornings around the bay, see what is on the event calendar.