10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2024
On Tuesday, my wife and I travelled 1750 miles (2,800 km) from our home of thirty years in Morelia, to the region in which I grew up, the San Mateo Peninsula of the San Francisco Bay Area in California. But this one was a wonderful experience. 11 were new for my California lifelist. But will I bird?
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Before I moved north to Portland, I lived in San Francisco. The evening of September 7, 2012 was a truly memorable birding experience. Off the coast of northern California, Sooty Shearwater are common and are seen on virtually all pelagic birding trips. I just happened to be there to experience it.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
I am a westerner who has lived in San Francisco and Portland my entire birding life. Given my west coast experience, I have made dedicated birding trips to several of the more predictable birding hotspots. For example, not much can beat the experience of seeing a Bald Eagle scare up thousands of Snow Geese at Sacramento NWR.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
As I always do on the way home, following a short visit to the San Francisco Bay Area, I take in at least one of the National Wildlife Refuges (NWR) found in the Sacramento Valley. California is blessed with 51 NWRs and Wildlife Management Areas (WMA), second only to North Dakota with 77.
Critter News
NOVEMBER 16, 2008
From the website : Just after sunrise on Halloween, a sole trick or treater descended on the home of University of California-San Francisco primate vivisector Stephen Lisberger. As Stephen and his wife Chieko slept in San Francisco, tubes of superglue were used to fill his front door locks.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2012
The water this Northern Pintail is in has human poo in it, which completely ruins the experience of seeing this bird. I know part of the experience of birding is taking in the beauty of the outdoors, but (call me crazy) I’m actually in it for the birds. Pine Lake Park, San Francisco, CA. Oh wait, it doesn’t.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2015
I doubt we have to worry about Herring Gulls , Ruby-throated Hummingbirds or California Towhees going extinct, though their abundance and distribution will surely shift in time. Conversely, parts of the world that have traditionally been quite dry may experience more rainfall. It’s that simple.
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