What we’re about
Our vision is for lower Rose Creek to be an open space park providing recreational and learning opportunities and a clean, healthy, aesthetically pleasing environment for residents, visitors, businesses, and native plants and animals, while serving as an accessible link for bicyclists and pedestrians to move between Rose Canyon Park, Marian Bear Park, Mission Bay Park, and surrounding communities. We invite everyone to help us make the dream a reality by habitat restoration, community cleanups, and nature walks. For more information, visit our website.
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Upcoming events
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Presentation: Protecting San Diego for Future Generations (Free)
Henter Education Center, 2050 Pacific Beach Drive, San Diego, CA, USProtecting San Diego for Future Generations — learn how the San Diego Chapter of the Sierra Club is protecting habitat via 30×30 and addressing the Climate Crisis.
Join the Friends of Rose Creek as we welcome Charles Rilli, Deputy Director of the San Diego Chapter of the Sierra Club. He will share California’s 30×30 project, which includes lower Rose Creek, and the Sierra Club SD's efforts to address the climate crises.
Charles serves on the Otay Valley Regional Park Citizen Advisory Council, the Chula Vista Wildlife Advisory Group, and the Power in Nature Steering Committee for 30×30 in addition to his role at the Sierra Club.
The event take's place at the Henter Education Center at UC San Diego's Kendall-Frost Marsh Preserve.
## Schedule
6:00 - 6:30 PM Meet and Greet with light refreshments
6:30 - 7:30 PM Presentation by Charles Rilli, Deputy Director of the San Diego Chapter of the Sierra Club.
7:30 - 8:00 PM Friends of Rose Creek Business Meeting open to the public.Free presentation is open to the public!
Please note that no dogs or other pets are allowed in the Kendall-Frost Marsh. No smoking allowed!
All attendees must sign a waiver at the event. If you are under 18, please download, have your parent or guardian sign it, and bring it with you. If you are 18 or older, you can sign the group waiver at the meeting. La renuncia en español
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Rose Creek Native Plant Garden Volunteer Work Party
2525 Garnet Ave, 2525 Garnet Avenue, San Diego, CA, USJoin the Friends of Rose Creek on the Second Saturday of every month from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m. while we work on The Nature School’s native plant interpretive garden behind Rose Creek Cottage.
Enjoy weeding, watering, removing invasive non-native plants and trash, and planting native species (fall and winter months) and get involved with your creek and your community. Easy one to two hours project – great for children of all ages.
Each month brings a new activity.
Please bring your own drinking water and snacks.
Unless there has been a lot of rain in the last week, please bring a few gallons of tap water in containers you will take home with you! We will use the water to help the newly planted natives survive until their roots are deep enough to survive on their own.
Perfect for community service credit hours. Please wear sunscreen, closed-toe shoes, long sleeved shirt and a hat.
Volunteers should bring water and heavy-duty work or gardening gloves. We do have extra gloves to share.
More information email info at saverosecreek dot org or visit SaveRoseCreek.org
Heavy rain cancels. Drizzle means we work.
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Guided Bird Walk @ Rose Creek (FREE)
Mission Bay High School, 2475 Grand Avenue, San Diego, Ca, USJoin 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 returning. These bird summer in Alaska and Canada, but prefer to hang out in San Diego for the winter. In October a few American Wigeons and Blue-winged teals have already been spotted. I wonder what other species will be at Rose Creek by November 15th?
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.
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 12:38 PM PT and is a 1.07 ft tide. Sunset is at 4:47 PM. Bring a jacket as it may be cool as the sun drops or earlier depending on the weather.
Stay for as long or as short as you wish. We usually have the best bird sightings around sunset!
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.
LOCATION CHANGE: We are meeting at Mission Bay High School this month.
If you can can, download Kyle’s bird list ahead of time and see how many birds on the list you spot.
Bring binoculars if you have them, good walking shoes and check the weather before you come. We will have a few extra pairs of binoculars for attendees, but supplies are limited.
Want to know what we may see if we are lucky. Check out these great photos from past bird walks.
*** Rain cancels.***
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.
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Past events
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