Audubon Society to host annual potluck picnic

The Conejo Valley Audubon Society will host the club's annual potluck picnic at 11 a.m. Sat., June 1 at the original Janss House at the end of Greenmeadow Avenue in Thousand Oaks. A bird walk at 8 a.m. will precede the picnic.

Members should bring a main dish, salad or dessert for eight people, as well as their own chair, plate, cutlery and drinks. For more information or driving directions, call the club's information line at (805) 987-2721.

The following birding trips are planned for June. For more information, call the contact person listed for each event.

•Sat., June 7, Pine Mountain Campground. Meet at Las Posas Park and Ride at 7:30 a.m. to carpool. Look for greentailed towhees, purple finches, Clarke's nutcrackers, white-headed woodpeckers, pygmy nuthatches and other species. Bring a jacket, lunch and water. Leader is Dee Lyon, (805) 499-2165.

•Sat., June 14, Sierra Vista. Meet at the site at 8 a.m. See neotropical migrants such as lazuli bunting, blue grosbeak and orioles. Leader is Rich Congersky.

•Sun., June 22, Camarillo Regional Park. Meet at Las Posas Park and Ride at 7:45 a.m. to carpool or at the park entrance at 8 a.m. Look for yellowbreasted chats, orioles, ashthroated flycatchers and other nesting birds. Leader is Tom Halpin, (805) 746-4598.