On Thursday, October 20, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm, the G2 Gallery and Audubon together with James Currie, Green Mountain Digital, Renee Thompson and Three Hoots Winery invite you to eat, drink and find out Why Birds Matter at the Second Annual “Not Your Grandmother’s Audubon.” Food, wine and complimentary valet will be provided. A [...]

By Lisa Fimiani Barbara Jean Courtois Sept 7, 1935 – Aug 14, 2011 For those of us who were privileged to work alongside and befriend the late Barbara Courtois over her 20 year involvement with the Ballona Audubon Education program she helped to create, we are surely sad to see her leave us. Barbara’s passion [...]

Life is never easy for the birds and fish on the seven mile stretch of Ballona Creek. Subject to human pollution, seasonal rain events, natural and unnatural biological time bombs set into motion, they live a precarious life on cement-lined sides and rip-rap and the hard and soft bottom of the Creek. That became all [...]

Click here to download the flier (.pdf) Back by popular demand, this Saturday, July 9th, in partnership with the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission’s Ballona Wetlands Restoration Project we will be hosting a walking tour and birding excursion at the Ballona Freshwater Marsh. We will be leaving from the Playa Vista Farmers’ Market at 9:30am [...]

We’ve had at least FOUR different species of swallow flying around the Ballona Wetlands this Spring – it’s Swallow Madness! Sharevar el = document.getElementById(‘share-link-41024750285′);el.params = {title: ‘Swooping Spring Swallows’, link: ‘http://www.ballonafriends.org/blog/2011/05/swooping-spring-swallows/’, skin: ‘green’, content: ‘http://www.ballonafriends.org/blog/?ibsa=get_content&id=4718′};