LOWER LAKE >> The final guided walk at Anderson Marsh State Historic Park is scheduled for Nov. 8.
Participants will meet in front of the ranch house at 8:15 a.m. for time to experience the early morning wildlife to be found in the ranch house and barn complex yard. The walk begins at 8:30 a.m.
Park Docents Gae Henry and Henry Bornstein will lead a leisurely walk to discover what fall continues to bring to the park.
The walk will begin on the Cache Creek Nature Trail, pausing at the deck on Cache Creek at the end of the Cache Creek Trail boardwalk. The guided walk will continue across the grasslands of Anderson Flats, through the marsh and oak woodland habitats of the Marsh & Ridge trails and end back at the ranch house.
The entire walk should take two to two-and-a-half hours.
A ranch house tour will follow the walk. If rain cancels the walk, the ranch tour will begin at 8:30 a.m.
Binoculars are encouraged. This time of year, many resident mammals and birds are attracted to the park because of wild blackberries, grapes, rose hips and mistletoe berries available for food. Fall also brings many migrating birds to the park, some to eat the autumn fruits and some to rest in the waters of Cache Creek and Anderson Marsh, or in the nearby trees. Phainopepla have returned for the mistletoe berries, there have been sightings of wintering eared grebes on the water and the white tailed kites have returned to the grasslands.
For more information about the walks, email info@andersonmarsh.org or call 995-2658. More information about Anderson Marsh Interpretive Association can be found at www.andersonmarsh.org. For more information about the park, you may also visit http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=483.
Anderson Marsh State Historic Park is located on Highway 53, between Lower Lake and Clearlake.
