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Classes

NEW: We are now offering online registration for our classes.

 

Beginning Birding with Anne Hoff — starting May 8

NOTE: This class is now full. If you wish, you can sign up for the waiting list.

This great introduction to bird-watching will familiarize you with the tools of the trade: binoculars, field guides, scopes, and more; show you places to watch birds in the Bay Area; and help you learn to identify the birds of the bay and uplands. Singing, breeding birds in their most colorful plumage make spring a particularly inviting season for birdwatching Fee: $85 for GGAS members, $105 for nonmembers. Class includes:

Four Wednesday evenings — 7 to 8:30 p.m. — May 8, 15, 22, 29

Four Saturday field trips — 8 to 10:30 a.m. — May 11,18, 25, and June 1

Cost: $85 for Golden Gate Audubon members, $105 for non-members

This class will take place at the Golden Gate Audubon office at 2530 San Pablo Avenue, Suite G, in Berkeley (at Blake).

To register for Beginning Birding online, please click here. Class is limited to 15 participants; then there will be a waiting list in case any registrants drop out.

 

Birds of the Sierra (Session 1) – June 6 – 9

NOTE: THIS SESSION IS NOW FULL. If you wish, you can sign up for the waiting list.

Summer in the Sierra is a birder’s dream.  Woodpeckers and flycatchers in the forests, American Dippers in the streams, and Sandhill Cranes, American Bitterns, Yellow-headed Blackbirds, Wilson’s Snipe and Swainson’s Hawks in the meadows.  The class starts at Yuba Pass at 3 PM on Thursday, and continues at a variety of Sierra birding sites through Sunday noon.  The class fee includes:
  • the services of two instructors
  • six half-day birding adventures
  • one dinner at the delightful SFS Sierra Campus in Bassetts
  • one lecture at the SFS campus on Sierran birds
  • one optional trip to Sierra Valley at night

Cost: $150 for Golden Gate Audubon members, $170  for non-members.

Instructors:  Rusty Scalf & Bob Lewis

Detailed instructions and itinerary will be provided upon registration.

To register for Birds of the Sierra (1) online, please click here.  Class is limited to 25 participants; then there will be a waiting list in case any registrants drop out.

 

Birds of the Sierra (Session 2) – June 13 – 16

NOTE: THIS SESSION IS NOW FULL. If you wish, you can sign up for the waiting list.

Summer in the Sierra is a birder’s dream.  Woodpeckers and flycatchers in the forests, American Dippers in the streams, and Sandhill Cranes, American Bitterns, Yellow-headed Blackbirds, Wilson’s Snipe and Swainson’s Hawks in the meadows.  The class starts at Yuba Pass at 3 PM on Thursday, and continues at a variety of Sierra birding sites through Sunday noon.  The class fee includes:

  • the services of two instructors
  • six half-day birding adventures
  • one dinner at the delightful SFS Sierra Campus in Bassetts
  • one lecture at the SFS campus on Sierran birds
  • one optional trip to Sierra Valley at night

Cost: $150 for Golden Gate Audubon members, $170  for non-members.

Instructors:  Eddie Bartley & Bob Lewis

Detailed instructions and itinerary will be provided upon registration.

To register for Birds of the Sierra (2) online, please click here.  Class is limited to 25 participants; then there will be a waiting list in case any registrants drop out.

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NOTE: If you have difficulty registering online, call our office at (510) 843-2222. We will return your call as soon as possible.