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My Do-over

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However, I rarely get to travel with family or friends who share my obsession. My recent brief trip to California made this strategy especially easy. My recent brief trip to California made this strategy especially easy. First, California is two time zones further west, so I was able to get out the door at 8 a.m.

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Wandering Tattler

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This was a family vacation and I had led my unsuspecting wife and son out onto the curving pier at Aquatic Park, overlooking San Francisco Bay, ostensibly to get a better look at Alcatraz and the bridge, but actually with half a mind to finding a Wandering Tattler. Birding Birds California San Francisco Wandering Tattler'

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The Pleasure and Pain of Pino Real

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Paul Lewis moved from California to Mexico 36 years ago. He is the author of an internationally distributed book in Spanish about family finances and has recorded four albums in Spanish of his own songs. My first birding period was over 40 years ago, in the San Francisco Bay Area. But hey… Aztec Thrushes!

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Showdown In Arroyo Grande: The Search For The Ivory Gull

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One Seagull Steve was living in San Francisco, on a birding hiatus. Instead of prowling the disgusting shores of Lake Merced for vagrant warblers, he had spent the fall in a haze of scumbaggery and debauchery in seedy bars and filthy apartments across San Francisco. Let me start from the beginning. It was the year 2010.

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Back from the West!

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After sixteen days touring the interior west and west coast of the United States with my family I am back in New York City. Once we said our good-byes to Oregon we headed to Crescent City, California, in the northwestern edge of the state, from which we explored Redwoods National Park and the plethora of state parks in the area.

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Beat on Assignment

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I moved to San Francisco from Minnesota 12 years ago. It was kindled by my grandmother when I was a child but lay dormant until I’d spent enough time in San Francisco to feel at home. Now I’ve moved to Bolinas, just north of San Francisco and water is now big part of my life.

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Ingrid Taylar: Bridging the Divide Between Cat and Bird Lovers

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That was my first trip to California Wildlife Center. There’s an imperative to get this message across to cat people who, like me, can be educated to value wild lives as much as we value the lives of our four-legged family members. It’s tribal and familial. I surprised her and she dropped the bird before vaporizing again.

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