Watsonville Wetlands Watch,
City of Watsonville Nature Center,
and the Fitz WERC
Events Calendar


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July 1 Rolling Hills Middle School, Math in the Wetlands, Field Trip 1, Group 1: 10:15 a.m. – 12:55 p.m.
Three docents needed.
July 2 Rolling Hills Middle School, Math in the Wetlands, Field Trip 1, Group 2: 10:15 a.m. – 12:55 p.m.
Three docents needed.
July 2 WWW BOD @ WERC, 6:00 – 8:30 p.m.
July 7

Rolling Hills Middle School, Math in the Wetlands, Classroom Visit 2, Group 1: 8:20 – 9:50 a.m.
One or two docents needed.
July 9 Field Trip: 9 – 11 a.m., two docents needed. Summer school chemistry teacher, Gretchen Miller, needs help leading a soil exploration lesson. Docents will help students collect soil samples using a soil core, examine the soil using charts and test the soil's pH. Please contact Noëlle to get some background info to help you prepare for this activity. This should be easy and fun!
July 9 Rolling Hills Middle School, Math in the Wetlands, Classroom Visit 2.
Group 2: 10:15 – 11:45 a.m.
Group 3: 11:50 – 1:20 p.m.
One or two docents needed for each.
July 13 Watsonville Wetlands Alive! Tour. 10:00 a.m. Come explore your wetlands and learn about efforts to keep them a vital part of our community. Reservations required. Click here for details!
July 14 Rolling Hills Middle School, Math in the Wetlands, Field Trip 2, Group 3: 10:15 a.m. – 12:55 p.m.
Three docents needed.
July 15 Rolling Hills Middle School, Math in the Wetlands, Field Trip 2, Group 1: 10:15 a.m. – 12:55 p.m.
Three docents needed.
July 16 Rolling Hills Middle School, Math in the Wetlands, Field Trip 2, Group 2: 10:15 a.m. – 12:55 p.m.
Three docents needed.
July 19 Watsonville Wetlands Alive! Tour. 1:00 p.m. Come explore your wetlands and learn about efforts to keep them a vital part of our community. Reservations required. Click here for details!
July 19 Watsonville Wetlands Watch Picnic, 1:00 – 3:30 p.m. You and your family are invited to join us for an old-fashioned picnic where we will share food, friendship, and birdwatching in a beautiful wetland setting. We will spread our blankets on the scenic knoll overlooking the sloughs on the DFG Reserve. Please bring a dish or drinks to share, a blanket (or folding beach chairs if you do not wish to sit on the ground), a sun hat, and any birdwatching paraphernalia you might have. We will have a few tables set up for the potluck dishes and drinks. We will also set up spotting scopes and bring some binoculars and bird guides for bird watching.
July 26 Restoration Saturday
July 27 Watsonville Wetlands Alive! Tour. 1:00 p.m. Come explore your wetlands and learn about efforts to keep them a vital part of our community. Reservations required. Click here for details!
 
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Flyer Posting — Do you know of a good location to post a flyer for our Restoration Saturdays? We have a stack of flyers in English and Spanish in the Visitor Center . Stop by and post them anywhere you think they might find an interested eye!

Guided Exploration Walk — Every Saturday at 1:30 p.m. Meet at the Watsonville Nature Center for a guided walk in nearby wetlands. All ages are welcome. Binoculars will be provided.
Aug 2 Watsonville Wetlands Alive! Tour. 1:00 p.m. Come explore your wetlands and learn about efforts to keep them a vital part of our community. Reservations required. Click here for details!
Aug 6 WWW BOD @ WERC, 6:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Aug 10 Watsonville Wetlands Alive! Tour. 10:00 a.m. Come explore your wetlands and learn about efforts to keep them a vital part of our community. Reservations required. Click here for details!
Aug 16 Watsonville Wetlands Alive! Tour. 1:00 p.m. Come explore your wetlands and learn about efforts to keep them a vital part of our community. Reservations required. Click here for details!
Aug 19 Docent Meeting — The Urban Watch Water Monitoring Program: 7 – 8:30 p.m. Guest speaker Anna Holden from NOAA will talk about the Urban Watch program. The Urban Watch program measures the impact of local communities and watersheds on the water quality of the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary. This year, some of our docents are helping with the Urban Watch program. Please come to find out about the impact of water from urban areas, and what kind of work is being done to monitor the outflows to the Sanctuary.
Aug 24 Watsonville Wetlands Alive! Tour. 11:00 a.m. Come explore your wetlands and learn about efforts to keep them a vital part of our community. Reservations required. Click here for details!
Aug 30 Watsonville Wetlands Alive! Tour. 1:00 p.m. Come explore your wetlands and learn about efforts to keep them a vital part of our community. Reservations required. Click here for details!
 

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Flyer Posting — Do you know of a good location to post a flyer for our Restoration Saturdays? We have a stack of flyers in English and Spanish in the Visitor Center . Stop by and post them anywhere you think they might find an interested eye!.

Guided Exploration Walk — Every Saturday at 1:30 p.m. Meet at the Watsonville Nature Center for a guided walk in nearby wetlands. All ages are welcome. Binoculars will be provided.
 
Sept 3 WWW BOD @ WERC, 6:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Sept 10 Docent Meeting Presentation on Bird Migration: 6:30 8:30 p.m. We are lucky to have Santa Cruz Bird Club outreach chairperson Nanci Adams as our guest speaker. Nanci will talk about bird migration, which is an appropriate topic during the migration season. This presentation will be a good warm-up for the Birding Festival.
 
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Flyer Posting — Do you know of a good location to post a flyer for our Restoration Saturdays? We have a stack of flyers in English and Spanish in the Visitor Center . Stop by and post them anywhere you think they might find an interested eye!.

Guided Exploration Walk — Every Saturday at 1:30 p.m. Meet at the Watsonville Nature Center for a guided walk in nearby wetlands. All ages are welcome. Binoculars will be provided.

Watsonville Wetlands Alive! Tours

Explore the Watsonville wetlands, little-visited pockets of solitude and untamed beauty. Tour the Fitz Wetlands Educational Resource Center (the WERC), an important resource and activity center for students and teachers in the Pajaro Valley schools. Learn about the Watsonville Wetlands Watch, the organization which runs the WERC and which is dedicated to the preservation of Watsonville's wetlands. Explore a native-plant restoration area and enjoy views of the wetlands and its active birdlife.

Tours originate from the Fitz Wetlands Educational Resource Center, located at 500 Harkins Slough Road on the Pajaro Valley High School campus. From the intersection of Green Valley and Main Street, travel toward the ocean for approximately 1 mile. Enter the PV High campus and continue to the top of campus, where the Fitz Wetlands Center is located. Map.

All tours are free to the public, but reservations are required 48 hours in advance; they can be made by calling the WERC at 831-728-1156 or by . Visitors should wear walking shoes and dress for an outdoor walk of one-half to one mile on uneven ground (mild grassy slopes).

 

Oatgrass
Danthonia californica — California Oatgrass
Sisyrinchium bellum — Blue-eyed grass

 

Bunny
Woodcut: Andrea Rich