Corona Heights
San Francisco
Friday, February 19, 8 – 10 a.m.
Charles Hibbard; Brian Fitch; Dominik Mosur, polskatata@yahoo.com
Meet in front of the Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, at the end of Museum Way off Roosevelt. We will enjoy views of the city…Read More
Merced and San Luis National Wildlife Refuges
Merced County
Tuesday, March 2, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Bob Lewis, Bob@wingbeats.org, 510.845.5001
We will meet at Merced National Wildlife Refuge and continue on to San Luis National Refuge, looking for Sandhill Cranes, Snow and Ross’s…Read More
Bike Trip: Big Break and Marsh Creek Regional Trails
Contra Costa County
Saturday, April 10, 9 a.m.
Kathy and Blair Jarrett, 510.547.1233, kathy_jarrett@yahoo.com
Meet at Fetzer Ln. and Jordan Ln. in Oakley. Each year, nearly half of the waterfowl and shorebirds migrating along the…Read More
Consumnes Preserve
January 10, 2010
Leader(s): Rusty Scalf
# of participants: 46
# of species: 77
It was a cool day with some fog. We sighted great numbers of Tundra Swans as well as Greater White-fronted Goose, Snow Goose, Ross’s Goose, Virginia Rail, Common Moorhen,…Read More
Lake Merritt & Lakeside Park
December 23, 2009
Leader(s): Hilary Powers and Ruth Tobey
# of participants: 10
# of species: 43
A juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk was perched in a tree on one of the islands to greet us as we arrived. This is a new…Read More
November 14, 2009
Leader(s): Kathy Jarrett
# of participants: 11
# of species: 67
Eleven stalwart souls started out at 8:30 in rain which was not in the forecast and persisted on and off for the better part of 1.5 hrs. At a little…Read More
November 7, 2009
Leader(s): Rusty Scalf
# of participants: 18
# of species: 60
We had a beautiful morning and were rewarded with an extensive list of birds including Cinnamon Teal, Green-winged Teal, Surf Scoter, Common Goldeneye, five Grebe species and a great array…Read More
November 6, 2009
Leader(s): Phila Rogers
# of participants: 24
# of species: 15
This morning’s first-Friday-of-the-month walk to Jewel Lake probably had the fewest birds and one of the biggest groups of fine birders in my several years of leading the trip. It…Read More
October 31, 2009
Leader(s): Kathy Jarrett
# of participants: 9
# of species: 62
It was a great birding day, starting at the wetlands just south of SF Airport where we saw Green-winged Teal and Northern Shovelers, and ending at Belmont Slough where we…Read More
Jewel Lake, Tilden Park
October 2, 2009
Leader(s): Phila Rogers
# of participants: 8
# of species: 20
Evidently the warblers (and other migrants) at Jewel Lake hadn’t gotten the word that migration is slowing down. We inched along Upper Pack Rat trail and saw new…Read More
Briones Regional Park
September 20, 2009
Leader(s): Rusty Scalf
# of participants: 24
# of species: 27
It was a warm, quiet day, but persistence did pay off and in the end we had a decent list of birds. Perhaps the highlight was superb studies of…Read More
