Directions: Take I-8 east to El Cajon and take highway 67 north to Ramona. Go through town, and shortly after the speed returns to 55 the road straightens out, and the pond will be on the left. If you reach Magnolia you've gone too far.
For a frumpy little farm pond, this spot can be surprisingly productive: in winter any number of waterfowl can show up here (one year it hosted a pair of Hooded Mergansers), and at any time there are often Tricolored Blackbirds hanging out in the reeds (along with Red-winged Blackbirds and Great-tailed Grackles). This can be a great shorebird spot, with both Black-necked Stilts and American Avocets, Least and Spotted Sandpipers, Long-billed Dowitchers, and Killdeer as regulars (one April a small flock of Wilson's Phalaropes showed up, which is exceedingly rare inland in spring). American Coots are present year-round, but check for the occasional Common Moorhen. Herons and on rare occasion White-faced Ibis sometimes feed along the shore or in the fields (Cattle Egrets can sometimes show up in numbers here). Scan the skies and trees for raptors and other rural birds.
Personal Checklist ●=small numbers █ = large numbers (10+)
Species in red denote out of place, vagrant, or irruptive species and should not be expected.