Join us at our beautiful preserve in the Pine Hills area of Julian for a fun evening exploring nighttime nature. This will be an adventure to listen and look for bats, learn about bats and monitor their echolocation calls using bioacoustics. We will launch into moth week by setting up a UV light to attract and observe moths and peek through the telescope at the moon. All ages welcome. Sign up early, space is limited and our Nature Nights events fill up quickly.
Please bring a flashlight or headlamp and wear long pants and close toed shoes.
Read more about National Moth Week here!
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
Don Endicott
A retired civilian research engineer and executive in the field of Navy Communications and Network Technologies in San Diego, 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.
H. Valtierra
Help us launch the beginning of Moth Week 2022! H. Valtierra is a microbiology and general biology professor at San Diego community colleges. He is an avid iNaturalist user and wildlife photographer. Bring a chair and your favorite Shakespeare passage or book as we'll be quoting from the Bard as we wait for the sun to set and moths to appear.
