General Meeting

Be sure to attend the next SCGC meeting!

Meetings are held at St. Andrew's Methodist Church, 2001 Calle Frontera, San Clemente, CA on the first Wednesday of the month—September through June at 1 o’clock p.m. You can join the club by attending any monthly garden club meeting. Join now and your membership materials and name tag will be ready for you on the check-in table at the next meeting.

Guest Speaker:

Dawn Garcia

Backyard Birds and Things They Love

Dawn will share natural history about your most common backyard birds and f ield identification. She will tell you how she attracts birds to her yard using native plants and other features, but also wants to hear what makes your yard bird friendly. Her goal is to create bird-attractive yards and help our neighbors do the same. Come with your questions and ideas to share!

Dawn Garcia is passionate about birds and the habitat that supports them, which basically means all of nature! A field biologist by trade, she specializes in everything bird, including surveys and monitoring, rehabilitation, husbandry in zoos, and protection. Currently living in Dana Point, Dawn writes a bimonthly column in the Dana Point Times, “For the Birds,” and guides the Avian Explorers in Dana Point Parks, who document every bird they see and hear. Hoping to influence neighbors in their landscape practice, she has created a little patch of native plants to attract pollinators, birds and insects.