The bushtit makes its home in Clear Lake State Park year round. The tiny bird, weighing two-tenths of an ounce, has a lisping twitter. Photo by Barbara Bridges.

CLEAR LAKE STATE PARK – Visitors continue to be thrilled with the abundant bird life in this Important Bird Area, one of four designated areas in Lake County.

To have more fun with watching birds and to make identification easier, attend the third in a series of interactive slide presentations, on Saturday, June 7 from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the park visitor center auditorium.

Docent Leona Butts will include common, not-so-common and why an exotic in Lake County in Joy of Birding III.

For a special outdoor experience, join docent Walt Lyon for the Indian Nature Trail Walk on Sunday, June 8 at 8:30 a.m. Meet Lyon, a lifetime Lake County resident, at the entrance kiosk (not at the visitor center ramp), of the park for a walk on the side of an ancient lava flow.

The trail commences a short distance from the entrance to the park. A trail for all seasons, Lyon will explain the many uses of shrubs and plants, such as the mulberry and the wavy leaf soap plant, and why the area was so important to our Native Americans. And, of course, you will be able to observe a few Western fence lizards and the birds should be singing during the early morning hours.

Saturday programs will continue in the auditorium through June. The next trail walk is scheduled from the visitor center ramp on June 22 with retired ranger Val Nixon.

Clear Lake State Park is located at 5300 Soda Bay Road, Kelseyville.

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