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Mea Culpa
Editor’s note: On October 6th, Mark Rauzon reported on the SF Birds Yahoo group that he had sighted a Nashville Warbler in downtown San Francisco.
Brooks Island field trip – a special place
By Ilana DeBare We don’t normally write blog posts about field trips… but a trip to Brooks Island is not a normal trip. Brooks Island
Safeway = Not Safe for Wildlife and Pets?
San Francisco wildlife photographer Jouko van der Kruijssen posted this story on his SF Wildlife blog earlier this week, with the title “This hawk is
Behind the scenes with our bird photo calendar
By Ilana DeBare One of my favorite parts of working at Golden Gate Bird Alliance is helping curate our annual Birds of the San Francisco
Snowy Plovers are back… with some human help
By Ilana DeBare One of our favorite shorebirds is back for the winter… and in Alameda, at least, they are finding a safer roosting site
Coyote Hills: Birding Hotspot
By Pamela Llewellyn When people visit from out of town and ask, “Where’s the best place to go birding?” I always have to pause and
Lani’s Big Year: the big push
Note: This is the seventh in a series of occasional blog posts by GGBA member George Peyton about his other half Lani Rumbaoa’s effort to
Birding South Texas with Golden Gate Bird Alliance
By Steve and Carol Lombardi In April, we joined five other Golden Gate Bird Alliance members on a nine-day birding adventure to the South Texas
Time to celebrate shorebird migration!
By Maureen Lahiff and Linda Carloni Migration is always a natural wonder, whether of songbirds or Monarch butterflies or herds of caribou, but shorebird migration,
Trash cans become bird art in Oakland
By Ilana DeBare They started out as boring, nondescript, too-often-ignored trash cans. But now they are bright spots of bird art in downtown Oakland! A
My personal Pinnacles condor experience
By Richard Neidhardt The California Condor and support for its recovery at Pinnacles National Park have captured much of my time over the last 5½
A nest box newbie in the schoolyard
By Anthony DeCicco Success! Pure thrilling success. I screamed “Yes!” this spring when I first saw a pair of adult Western Bluebirds entering the nest