Events

Take a gentle walk through the park and learn to identify which birds are filling the air with song. Brush up on your skills from earlier walks.

Learn the birds of San Pedro Valley Park, their food habits, nesting preferences and the timing of their stays in the park as well as their songs.

The magnificent Baja Peninsula and Gulf of California have the largest diversity of cetaceans in the world!

Ron Eby & Robert Scoles have spent 1000’s of hours observing, documenting and photographing the sea otter, showing that the rebounding otter population resulted in the come-back of the eel-grass that offers a protected nursery for herring, crabs, and many other species and that eating tons of crabs by the otter has brought back the eelgrass.

Ryan Berger talks to us about one of his most critical projects as Point Blue’s head biologist on the Farallone Islands: rescuing entangled whales. He also talks about his work on the response of the island’s marine pinnipeds, seals and seal lions, to environmental variation and climate change.

San Mateo County Parks’ Dog Management Committee invites the community to review its recommendations at three meetings

The tick that carries this disease has been found in SPVP, though strangely, the likelihood if its carrying the bacteria is lessened by the prevalence of our fence lizard. The infamous “deer tick” shown above is the carrier of the damaging bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi .

San Mateo Parks will provide tick training at the San Pedro Valley Park visitors center on Nov 15th from  1:30-3: PM.

Due to the overwhelming success of her past program that has enthralled our younger friends and adults alike, Corky will return with her live bats to provide a close encounter with these fascinating creatures.

Lenny Grimaldo will discuss the life history of the steelhead trout & show how our creek’s health is important to them. 

Comb the trails with an expert on mushroom identification, J.R. Blair. We will pluck a variety of mushrooms and then reassemble at the Visitor Center for Mr. Blair to identify and discuss

Geomporphologist Jerry Davis from San Francisco State University will explore San Pedro Creek and how its changed since the arrival of Europeans and what we need to do to restore its ecological functions