Hummingbird Cantina Anniversary Celebration
Presented by The Gamble House and Pasadena Audubon Society

Saturday, March 14, 2026, from 10:30am – 1:30pm
Garden and Rear Terrace

FREE drop-in event – All are welcome!

Join Pasadena Audubon Society (PAS) and The Gamble House in celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Hummingbird Cantina’s new home! After being displaced by the Eaton Fire, the PAS Hummingbird Cantina relocated to the Nancy Greene Glass Memorial Garden behind the Gamble House Bookstore in early 2025. One year later, we gather in appreciation of our resilient community and our fast-flitting friends, the hummingbirds.

Drop by The Gamble House on Saturday, March 14^th for a morning of birdwatching, binocular crafting, and more followed by a hummingbird lecture from Dr. Eric Strauss of the Center for Urban Resilience. We will be raffling some avian-inspired prizes to benefit the Hummingbird Cantina. All ages and birder experience levels are welcome at this free event.

10:30am-1:30pm – Stroll through the Hummingbird Cantina and build-your-own pair of binoculars with Pasadena Audubon

10:30-11:45am – Join a Pasadena Audubon guide for a beginner binocular class and bird walk around the beautiful Arroyo Terrace neighborhood

12:00pm – Learn all about the awe-inspiring biology of hummingbirds in Dr. Eric Strauss’s lecture Hummingbirds: Ecology of an Extremophile

12:45pm – Win a bird feeder, Audubon swag, and more at the raffle draw!

12:45-1:30pm – Book signing for Dr. Eric Strauss’s book Hummingbirds of the Gottlieb Native Garden

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Dr. Eric Strauss Bio:

Dr. Eric Strauss serves as President’s Professor of Biology at Loyola Marymount University and Executive Director of the Center for Urban Resilience (CURes). With collaborative research specialties in animal behavior, endangered species management, urban ecosystems and science education, Eric has extended the model for faculty scholarship by co-founding the Urban Ecology Institute in Boston while he served as a faculty member at Boston College and CURes in LA, both of which provide educational, research and restoration programs to under-served neighborhoods and their residents.

In addition, Dr. Strauss is the Founding Editor of a web-based peer-reviewed journal, Cities and the Environment, which is funded in part by the USDA Forest Service. His research includes collaborative long-term studies of coyotes, White tailed deer, crows, turtles and other vertebrates, with a specialty in understanding wildlife in urban areas and the appropriate management responses to wildlife problems and zoonotic disease. His work also includes investigating the role of green space and urban forests in supporting of healthy neighborhoods and how those features can be used to improve science education and restorative justice. He has co-written multi-media textbooks in biology and urban ecology as well as hosting multiple video series on the life sciences and ecology. Dr. Strauss received his BS in Mass Communication from Emerson College and Ph.D. in Biology from Tufts University in 1990.