The "Del Monte Forest--corporation yard" is a cleared open area used by the Pebble Beach Corporation to store materials, equipment, tractors and trucks, and large logs.  It can be a busy work-place; birders should be careful to avoid pitfalls and should not interfere with workers. Still, it can be reached from several wide trails within the SFB Morse Botanical Reserve — including the Haul Road trail — and there will be an avifaunal break here, with flocks of finches and sparrow (in season), pus open-country birds. From the Pebble Beach side, it can reached via a spur road from the intersection of Lopez & Sunridge. That entrance is sometimes closed by a gate.

The "Del Monte Forest--corporation yard" is a sub-location within the much larger "Del Monte Forest--SFB Morse Botanical Reserve" Hot Spot.  As a "sub-location" -- rather than a stand-alone Hotspot -- you have the option to include it within a checklist for the more general SFB Morse Botanical Reserve, or, if you wish, to enter it as a separate list whose data will be collated as if it were a formal Hotspot. The advantages of the latter decision is that it collects data in an quite different habitat that the surrounding Monterey pine forest, and maps the birds here to a different spot than the general Hotspot.

Sparrows, finches, and open-country birds are found more easily in this open area than within the surrounding pine forest. Rarities that have occurred include Cassin's Kingbird and Vesper Sparrow, species that would otherwise avoid a Monterey pine forest.

Del Monte Forest (Del Monte, Spanish for "of the mountain") is a habitat area, dominated by Monterey pine, with Monterey cypress, live oaks, and an understory that includes poison oak. It contains a variety of rare and endangered plants; the SFB Morse Botanical Reserve was created within the forest to preserve these endangered "white sand" species. The original forest was occupied considerably more area before urban development in the 20th century.

Del Monte Forest is also a census-designated place (CDP) in Monterey County, California. As of the 2020 census, the CDP had a total population of 4,204,[5] down from 4,514 at the 2010 census. The census area includes the separate well-known community of Pebble Beach.  Pebble Beach is now the name most people associate with the entire Pebble Beach/Del Monte Forest area, which can be accessed only through five 24-hour gates with a substantial entrance fee for visitors. Residents, workers, staff, and some other locals hold entrance permits.

For purposes of eBird, Del Monte Forest means the area dominated by Monterey pine forest, mostly upslope and west of the the more urbanized lowlands in the south and along the coast. The famed 17-Mile Drive winds through parts of Del Monte Forest, as well as along the coast where there a series of birding Hot Spots. Public restrooms are at the Bird & Seal Rocks Hotspot parking lot.