December Guided Bird Walk (Free)
December 20, 2025 - 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Pacific Beach
Winter Solstice Eve Bird Walk
Join us for a collaboration between the San Diego Bird Alliance and the Friends of Rose Creek as we explore the birds of the Rose Creek Salt Marsh and upstream habitat.
The Snow Birds are out in force. These bird summer in Alaska and Canada, but prefer to hang out in San Diego for the winter. Blue-winged teals, Bufflehead, and dozens of American Wigeons are hanging out daily at the Rose Creek Salt Marsh
Stay for as long or as short as you wish. We usually have the best bird sightings around sunset!
Kyle will be our guide this month.
Low tide will be at 14:04 PM PT and should be a −0.79. Sunset is at 4:46 PM. Bring a jacket as it will be cool near sunset or earlier depending on the weather.
LOCATION CHANGE: We are heading back to Mission Bay High. Find us in the parking lot on the east side of the school adjacent to Grand Avenue and overlooking the creek. Additional parking is available on eastbound Grand Avenue on the weekends.
ROSE CREEK is a birding hot spot in the north east corner of Mission Bay. Check out the latest sightings on eBird. A treasure in Pacific Beach, the creek and salt marsh is popular with Bikers on the East side, a quiet, shaded walking path on the West side.
Bring binoculars if you have them, good walking shoes and check the weather before you come. Our guide will have a scope to help us see the birds closeup and personal and we will have extra pairs of binoculars to share thanks to the San Diego Bird Alliance. Heavy rain cancels, but drizzle means we walk. After all the birds don’t mind the rain.
If you can can, download Kyle’s bird list ahead of time and see how many birds on the list you spot.
Calling Citizen Scientists! If you have a smart phone and want to contribute to data collection, join iNaturalist and start documenting nature along Rose Creek during the guided walk. Learn more here.
Or take photos and upload to Instagram and tag us @RoseCreekSD or @sandiegobirdalliance.