The privately-owned, member-support Swiss Rifle Club is an an 18-acre site at the foot of La Gloria Grade east of Gonzales. It is about 0.8 miles east of the intersection of Gloria Road and Gloria-Camphora Road, all of which are paved roads east of Gonzales in agricultural land. The Rifle Club is sometimes open to the public for BBQs and local events, but from a birders' perspective, it is best to be at this location when no events are on-going and no one is using private rifle range. The Club's fenced property sits at the east end of the paved portion of Gloria Road, where a sharp 90-degree turns northwards, and then the road in unpaved up into the hills of the Diablo Range. 

All birding is from the road edges, but there are wide spots to park. The Swiss Rifle Club vicinity is at a merging of various habitats -- open fields and agriculture lands to the west, riparian habitat and live oaks along an intermittent stream, and (uphill) into thick chaparral habitat. This is not a heavily birded area, but checklists tend to be in the immediate vicinity of Club's property (which also has some planted ornamentals). The attraction is a mix of habitats in a small area. [Uphill, farther east on the unpaved part of Gloria Road to the San Benito County border, is a different Hotspot associated only with chaparral habitat.]

Oak woodland residents include California Quail, Wild Turkey, Acorn and Nuttall's Woodpecker, Western Bluebird, and White-breasted Nuthatch; summer breeders include Bullock's Oriole and Lark Sparrow. In winter, watch for flocks of sparrows and Red-breasted Sapsucker. Raptors hunt the open fields and along the watercourse; watch for Prairie Falcon and Golden Eagle. Nearby chaparral has California Thrasher, Wrentit, and a chance for Roadrunner. Erratic visitors such as Phainopepla or Lawrence' Goldfinch have occurred. Open fields in winter attract Horned Lark, Say's Phoebe, and, with luck Mountain Bluebird.