Enjoy this winter by getting outside with Golden Gate Bird Alliance’s Birding the Bay Trail Docents along the bay.  Docents will be providing information on the wonderful waterbirds and shorebirds along the Bay Trail in Richmond.  The schedule for February is as follows…

• Wednesday Feb. 1 from 8am-10am at Meeker Slough
• Thursday, Feb. 9 from 2:30pm-4:30pm at Barbara and Jay Vincent Park
• Thursday, Feb. 16 from 8:30am-10:30am at Meeker Slough
• Saturday Feb. 18 from 10:30am-12:30pm at Barbara and Jay Vincent Park
• Wednesday Feb. 22 from 2:00-3:00pm at Meeker Slough

Here is a link to a map of the area 

Driving directions from 580– For Meeker Slough, you need to park in Bayside (off Marina Bay Parkway) and walk a short path to the slough then turn right, then left at the bridge. 

For Vincent Park, you continue on Marina Bay Parkway onto Promenade which deadends at Vincent Park – look for docents on the Bay side of the park.…

Congratulations to Dominik Mosur who recorded 273 species of birds in his 2011 big year in San Francisco.
His final tally was 273 species for San Francisco County, 264 for City only.   Dominik used ebird to track the species.  Some birds were seen on pelagic trips while most were observed while standing within San Francisco City limits.…

San Francisco Christmas Bird Count was on Tuesday, December 27, 2011

KCBS “Volunteers Do Annual Bird Count at San Francisco Zoo”

Contra Costa Times “More than 100 birder watchers take to annual bird count”

San Francisco Appeal “Christmas Bird Count Planned for Today”

ABC  “Annual Bird Count Around the Bay”

Oakland Christmas Bird Count was on Sunday, December 18, 2011

KQED Quest:  A Census for the Birds

Oakland Tribune “More than 100 Birderwatchers… …