Nature

Enjoy the spring blooms, birds, and bugs and help celebrate and steward nature close to home while sheltering in place. Find tips for observing and caring for nature in your backyard as well as online publications and virtual tours to parks and gardens beyond.

Click each link below for home nature access tips.

Build a bee hotel and help shelter pollinators

Contribute bumble bee sitings to this collaborative tracking and conservation effort

Curriculum: bird activities for kids from Golden Gate Audubon Society

Curricula compiled by the UC College Naturalist

Curriculum of home nature based activities from Green Schoolyards America

Identify plants, bugs, and other backyard life with Seek iNaturalist

Nature journaling with the John Muir Laws guide

Read Bay Nature's coverage of local biodiversity

Read science, history, and conservation of East Bay creeks

Take the City Nature Challenge - in and around your home

Venture out to your backyard for an insect safari (Oakland insect guide ; Insect finder; Insect identification help; Insect appreciation music)

Virtually visit California native plant gardens with the "Bringing Back the Natives" tour