A citizen science opportunity for birders to go birding at the LADWP ponds. The ponds are a mitigation to offset the damage from decades of excessive groundwater pumping in the 1970s and 1980s before they were stopped with a lawsuit. That lawsuit became the Inyo-LADWP Long Term Water Agreement. However, most people don’t know about the ponds. They are to support migratory birds.  We need bird data to see how effective the ponds are 30 years later—are birds using them? Please enter your observations in eBird. 

Locations in order from north to south:

• Farmers Pond, the eastern most end of Riverside Road, Bishop
  
• Buckley Ponds, Schober Lane, Bishop 
• Saunders Lake, Collins Road, Bishop
• Warren Lake, north of Big Pine
• Baker Creek, west of Big Pine at the end of the road
• Little Seeley Springs, road off of 395 north of Aberdeen Station Road
• Calvert Lake, off of Goodale Road
• Hines Spring, off of Goodale Road
• Homestead, off of Mazourka Canyon Road. to the south, Independence
• Billy Lake and Goose Lake, off of Mazourka Cyn Road to the north, Independence 
• Hogback Creek, Hogback Road and Moffat Ranch Road, Lone Pine