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SUMMARY:River Center at Grant Park Community Tours
DESCRIPTION:Come out for a community tour of the exciting new River Center at Grant Park under construction! Enjoy a stroll around the site and learn about this amazing project! \nTours embarking at: \n\n9:45 am\n10:15 am\n10:45 am\n\nThe River Center at Grant Park will act as a new home for the San Diego River in the heart of Mission Valley. With nature as a classroom \, it will provide free hands-on STEM learning experiences to thousands of kids with the goal of inspiring pursuit of STEM education and careers and a love for the river. \nWe hope you can join us to learn more about this incredible haven of green space in the heart of San Diego and the beacon it will be for the community! \n 
URL:https://sdriverdays.org/activity/community-river-center-at-grant-park-tours/
LOCATION:Grant Park\, 2310 Camino Del Rio North\, San Diego\, CA\, 92108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Hiking and Walking,Learning & Education
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SUMMARY:Seed Bomb Sculptures with ArtReach
DESCRIPTION:Get your hands dirty by making some seed bomb sculptures to help our native habitat!\nIn this workshop\, participants will merge visual art with eco activism and create their own biodegradable sculptures out of soil\, clay and native SoCal wildflower seeds. \nThe seed sculptures can then be placed (or smashed!) in gardens or other spaces in need of the wildflowers critical to our ecosystem. \nLocation: T + C Park\, Fashion Valley Rd &\, Riverwalk Dr\, San Diego\, CA 92108\nParking is available directly across Riverwalk Drive at Fashion Valley Mall / transit station. Nearest address: 6987 Friars Rd\, San Diego\, CA 92108).
URL:https://sdriverdays.org/activity/seed-bomb-sculptures-with-artreach/
LOCATION:T + C Park\, T+C Park (Fashion Valley Rd &\, Riverwalk Dr\,\, San Diego\, 92108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture,Family-Friendly,Nature,Recreation
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SUMMARY:Pollinator Safari
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the San Diego River Park Foundation \nJoin local insect lovers and photographers\, representatives from Bee City USA\, and the UCSD Pollinator Club in the Point Loma Native Plant Garden for a Pollinator Safari. Local pollinator enthusiasts will lead short walks around the garden looking for bees\, wasps\, butterflies\, hummingbirds\, and other insects visiting the flowers and flying around the garden. We’ll talk about taking photos and collecting data on inaturalist.org. And we’ll have tables with displays of native pollinators\, sharing photos and more so you can get a closer look at some of the beautiful and unique pollinators found in the San Diego River Watershed.
URL:https://sdriverdays.org/activity/pollinator-safari/
LOCATION:Point Loma Native Plant Garden\, 4444 Greene St.\, San Diego\, CA\, 92107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Nature
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250517T190000
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SUMMARY:Bat Walk & Moths Under the Moonlight
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the San Diego River Park Foundation \nJoin SDRPF for a fun evening adventure to launch into bat and moth season as we listen and look for bats and moths while we stroll along the river.  We will delve into our nighttime world to eavesdrop on eerie echolocation calls using bioacoustics and attract moths to our UV lighting station to observe them up close. \nAll ages are welcome to join us for this hair-raising event. Sign up early as space is limited\, and our Nature Nights events fill up quickly! \nPlease bring a flashlight or headlamp\, a camp chair for the later mothing portion and wear long pants and close toed shoes. \n\nAbout our Presenters: \nDon Endicott is a retired civilian research engineer and executive in the field of Navy Communications and Network Technologies in San Diego\, but Don discovered a second career as a volunteer naturalist. He is a National Association of Interpretation Certified Interpretive Guide and Mission Trails Regional Park Trail Guide as well as public educator for the San Diego Natural History Museum and the San Diego Humane Society as a member of Project Wildlife’s “Bat Team”. Don presents multi-media talks on bats and mountain lions at regional venues such as Anza-Borrego Desert State Park\, Cuyamaca Rancho State Park\, Mission Trails Regional Park\, and Agua Caliente County Park. He was recognized as Anza-Borrego Desert State Park’s volunteer Naturalist of the Year in 2018. He contributes full spectrum bat echolocation call recordings to the San Diego Natural History Museum and Wildlife Acoustics\, a bioacoustics monitoring systems company\, where they have been incorporated into reference libraries for species identification. He is a field contributor to herpetofauna surveys and monitors nesting peregrine falcons for the National Park Service and US Fish & Wildlife Service. Don is co-author of 50 Best Short Hikes San Diego (Wilderness Press\, 2018) with the late Jerry Schad. \nHector Valtierra is an avid moth enthusiast\, and will be setting up a mothing station for us. When he isn’t out looking for moths and other insects\, Hector works as a microbiology and general biology professor at San Diego community colleges. He is also an avid iNaturalist user and wildlife photographer. \nAdditional Details:\n\n\n\n\n\nIs Family Friendly\n\n\n\nRegister by May 17\, 2025\n\n\n\nIs Outdoors\n\n\n\nIs Wheelchair Accessible\n\n\n\nClosed-Toe Shoes Required\n\n\n\nLong Pants Required\n\n\n\nBring a Flashlight or Headlamp
URL:https://sdriverdays.org/activity/bat-walk-moths-under-the-moonlight/
LOCATION:Grant Park\, 2310 Camino Del Rio North\, San Diego\, CA\, 92108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Family-Friendly,Learning & Education,Nature
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SUMMARY:Bird Survey
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the San Diego River Park Foundation \nPlease join local bird experts in the heart of Mission Valley at the River Center at Grant Park to observe and count the birds that call this section of the river home! Come see nature’s biodiversity and beauty while getting a sneak peek of Grant Park’s progress as we build a unique youth education center to steward a new generation of nature advocates. \nFind other guided bird watching event dates HERE! \nHere are a few tips to help you prepare for the event: \n\nYou can park in the round-about at Grant Park or take the trolley to the Rio Vista station\nBring your own binoculars if you have them\, and we usually have some to loan out\nItems to Bring: Hat\, other forms of sun protection\, study shoes\nKids are welcome\, with adult supervision.
URL:https://sdriverdays.org/activity/bird-survey-2/
LOCATION:Grant Park\, 2310 Camino Del Rio North\, San Diego\, CA\, 92108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Family-Friendly,Hiking and Walking,Learning & Education,Nature,Recreation
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