Sat. July 26, 9am-4pm Santa Cruz, on the northern end of Monterey Bay, is famed as a friendly college town. But it is also studded with wonderful parks and bordered by rocky shorelines, all with great numbers of birds. Natural … Continue reading
Sat. Aug. 2, 9am-12pm Crab Cove and the Alameda shoreline, with miles of unspoiled beaches, is a magnet for shorebirds, gulls, herons and egrets, terns, grebes and ducks of all kinds. This is a convenient local spot to see legions … Continue reading
Sat. Aug. 16, 9am-4pm Bolinas Lagoon and the Marin coast are two natural treasures of the Bay Area, luckily preserved for wildlife and people alike. Along this spectacular coast we can expect to see many ducks, shorebirds, raptors, songbirds, terns, … Continue reading
Fri.-Sun. Aug. 22-24, 2014 Monterey and nearby Big Sur are two of the most spectacular coastlines of California. Monterey Bay, with its unique marine ecology, has a great concentration of wildlife: birds, monarch butterflies, sea mammals and migrating whales. The … Continue reading
Sat. Sept. 6, 9am-12pm This large marsh on San Leandro Bay (near the Oakland Airport) has extensive tidal flats, marshes and grasslands, all of which attract large numbers of waders, terns, shorebirds, avocets, ducks, stilts, Burrowing Owls, songbirds, ducks and … Continue reading
Sat. Sept. 20, 9am-4pm Bodega Bay, nestled on the Sonoma coast west of Sebastopol, is one of the best birding locations of the North Bay, designated an IBA (Important Bird Area) by the American Bird Conservancy. The marshes, headlands, coves … Continue reading
Sat. Oct. 4, 9am-4pm Merced NWR is one of several San Joaquin Valley wildlife refuges that comprise the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge. Together they total more than 50,000 acres. This combination of marshes, ponds, riparian areas and farmlands host … Continue reading
Sat. Oct. 11, 9am-12pm This section of Palo Alto shoreline and marshlands has some of the greatest variety and numbers of wildfowl, shorebirds, raptors, waders and songbirds of any in the Bay Area. Herons and egrets, stilts, Avocets, many shorebirds, … Continue reading
Thurs.-Sun. Oct. 23-26, 2014 Every year hundreds of thousands of migrating wildfowl, shorebirds and raptors pass through the great Klamath Basin refuge on the California-Oregon border. This is very wild, open and rugged country. The refuge covers many thousands of … Continue reading
Fri.-Sun. Nov. 14-16, 2014 This weekend tour of several of the Central Valley’s legendary birding areas should produce great numbers of raptors, ducks, geese, swans, shorebirds, Sandhill cranes and songbirds. More than 300 species of birds and mammals, both resident … Continue reading