What is a field trip leader? A Golden Gate Audubon field trip leader is the volunteer most seen by the general public and GGA supporters. They are a birder, who leads groups of interested birdwatchers around the Bay Area and…
Lake Merritt
June 23, 2010
Leader(s): Hilary Powers and Ruth Tobey
# of participants: 12
# of species: 28
The Double-crested Cormorants are still nesting in huge numbers, and standing shoulder to shoulder on the floats. Five White Pelicans, all with brownish heads were preening…
April 18, 2010
Leader: Chris Bard
Number of Participants: 13
Number of Species: 69
With wonderful weather we birded at 8 locations including Crab Cove, Alameda Point, and Lincoln Park. We saw 4 birds on nests- Red-breasted Nuthatch, Cooper’s Hawk, Anna’s Hummingbird, and Peregrine…
Twenty birders joined Golden Gate Audubon Society’s annual late spring birding trip to Mines Road and Del Puerto Canyon. Beginning shortly after 8:00 am, our route followed Mines Road from the outskirts of Livermore into the San Antonio Valley. A…
San Francisco Botanical Garden
Golden Gate Park
Sunday, May 2, 8 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Alan Ridley, allanrid@pacbell.net; Helen McKenna, 415.566.3241; Ginny Marshall; Dominik Mosur, polskatata@yahoo.com
Meet at the front gate of the garden in Golden Gate Park, 9th Ave. at Lincoln Way. This delightful…
Hayward Regional Shoreline
Hayward, Alameda County
Saturday, June 5, 8:45 a.m. – noon
Rusty Scalf, rscalf@sonic.net, 510.666.9936 (email preferred)
We will meet at the Hayward Shoreline Interpretive Center on Breakwater Avenue (www.haywardrec.org/hayshore.html). At 9 a.m., we will proceed to the water reclamation area, located behind…
Merritt and Lakeside Park
April 28, 2010
Leader(s): Hilary Powers
# of participants: 2
# of species: 27
The Double-crested Cormorants are getting creative about nesting sites. To make up for the loss of one of their bare trees they are nesting in the shade…
March 10, 2010
Leader(s): Bob Lewis
# of participants: 20
# of species: 52
Crisp but sunny day, with harriers chasing a Red-tailed Hawk and ravens chasing a kite. The swallows have returned in force, with 4 species circling over the…
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…
Jewel Lake
Tilden Regional Park, Berkeley
Friday, April 2, 8:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Phila Rogers, 510.848.9156, philajane6@yahoo.com
We continue our monthly first Friday trips at Tilden Park. Meet at the parking lot at the north end of Central Park Dr. for a 1-mile,…
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 Pacific Flyway pass through the Sacramento Delta. A paved trail…
Dave Quady, 510.704.9353, davequady@att.net
We can expect to see Lewis’s Woodpecker, Phainopepla, and Bullock’s Oriole, and possibly Wild Turkey, Greater Roadrunner, and Golden Eagle. Trip begins in Livermore and finishes there in the early evening, with opportunities…
Dave Quady, 510.704.9353, davequady@att.net; Dave Cornman
The lower and middle elevations of Yosemite National Park are alive with singing birds in late May and early June. A variety of habitats supports a rich diversity of bird life,…
Alameda and Contra Costa Counties
Monday, February 15
Kathy Jarrett, 510.547.1233, kathy_jarrett@yahoo.com
Meet the leaders at 8:50 a.m. at El Cerrito Del Norte BART Station (BART is on holiday schedule for President’s Day) or at 9:20 at the end of S. 51st Street…
Golden Gate Park
Sunday, February 7, 8 – 10:30 a.m.
Alan Ridley, allanrid@pacbell.net; Helen McKenna, 415.566.3241; Ginny Marshall
Meet at the front gate of the garden in Golden Gate Park, 9th Ave. at Lincoln Way. This delightful section of the park has several…
Solano and Yolo Counties
Saturday, February 6, 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Terry Colborn, 916.705.8991, tlcgdc@aol.com
The open agricultural lands of southern Solano County provide excellent foraging habitat for scores of wintering raptors, while the wetlands of the nearby Yolo Basin Wildlife Area…
Tilden Regional Park, Berkeley
Friday, February 5, 8:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Phila Rogers, 510.848.9156, philajane6@yahoo.com
We continue our monthly first Friday trips at Tilden. Meet at the parking lot at the north end of Central Park Dr. for a 1-mile, 2-hour-plus stroll through…
San Benito and Fresno Counties
Sunday, January 31, 8 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Chris Carpenter, cgbirds64@comcast.net, 510.547.2201
Panoche Valley is mainly private property, so we will bird from the roadside to look for the specialty birds found here, such as Golden Eagle, Prairie Falcon,…
Oakland, Alameda County
Wednesday, January 27, 9:30 a.m. – noon
Hilary Powers, 510.834.1066, hilary@powersedit.com; Ruth Tobey, 510.528.2093, ruthtobey@earthlink.net
Meet at the large spherical cage near the Nature Center at Perkins and Bellevue. We will bird around there, then go up the garden path…
Oakland, Alameda County
Saturday, January 23, 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Mark Rauzon, mjrauz@aol.com
Join Mark and the Friends of Sausal Creek for a bird-monitoring field trip in the Sausal Creek watershed. Eight sites will be visited, each for a 10-minute stationary count. The…
Fremont, Alameda County
Monday, January 18
Kathy Jarrett, 510.547.1233, kathy_jarrett@yahoo.com
Meet the leaders at 9 a.m. on the east side of the Fremont BART station in the parking lot for this all-day trip on the MLK holiday. Trip ends at BART between 3…
San Francisco
Friday, January 15, 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 and bay…
Sacramento County
Sunday, January 10, 9 a.m.
Rusty Scalf, rscalf@sonic.net
The Consumnes is a small river, a mere 80 miles long, that meanders freely in the Central Valley just south of Sacramento, along one of the remaining tracts of old-growth riparian forest left…
San Mateo County
Saturday, January 9, 8 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Dan Murphy, murphsf@yahoo.com
The wetlands, marshes, and open waters at Palo Alto and Mountain View are among the richest bird habitats on San Francisco Bay. Levees and boardwalks overlooking the marshes, mudflats,…
Golden Gate Park
Sunday, January 3, 8 – 10:30 a.m.
Alan Ridley, allanrid@pacbell.net; Helen McKenna, 415.566.3241; Ginny Marshall
Meet at the front gate of the garden in Golden Gate Park, 9th Ave. at Lincoln Way. This delightful section of the park has several…
Tilden Regional Park, Berkeley
Friday, January 1, 8:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Phila Rogers, 510.848.9156, philajane6@yahoo.com
We continue our monthly first Friday trips at Tilden. Meet at the parking lot at the north end of Central Park Dr. for a 1-mile, 2-hour-plus stroll through…
Oakland
Friday, January 1, 2010
Kathy Jarrett, 510.547.1233, kathy_jarrett@yahoo.com
GGAS MLK Shoreline Arrowhead Marsh Jan 1-Bicycle Trip ALERT
A half mile segment of trail at the north end of Martin Luther King Shoreline Park
known as the Tidewater area will be closed from July 20,…
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,…
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…
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…
