By Phila Rogers After 61 years in my house on the hillside above Strawberry Canyon in Berkeley, living elsewhere seemed inconceivable.  The live oak I

By Ilana DeBare If you were reading this blog last fall, you may remember the photos we posted of the beautiful bird mural painted on

By Ilana DeBare David Tomb’s two childhood loves were art and birds. As an adult, he’s brought them together — in a way that supports

By Ilana DeBare This is not a big dramatic story, just a little slice of daily life at Golden Gate Bird Alliance. But it shows

By Marissa Ortega-Welch J. Drew Lanham wrote an excellent piece in the latest Orion Magazine called “9 Rules for the Black Birdwatcher” that uses humor

By Ilana DeBare What do an art museum docent and a Golden Gate Bird Alliance birder have in common? That may sound like the start

Editor’s Note: The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is considering using rodenticides to eliminate non-native mice from the Farallon Islands. While Golden Gate Bird Alliance

By Frances Dupont The Burrowing Owls are back! And this year, Golden Gate Bird Alliance is expanding its Burrowing Owl docent program beyond Berkeley to

By Ilana DeBare Good news for California Condors, Golden Eagles and other raptors — Gov. Jerry Brown has signed AB 711, the Audubon-backed bill that

By Ilana DeBare It’s the time of year when some old, out-of-use chimneys at a San Rafael brickyard become a site of avian wonder. Tens

By Burr Heneman and Janet Visick We did our first high country trip in a long time in early August, and we took three of

Sharp Park Golf Course is located in Pacifica but owned and operated by the City of San Francisco. For several years, Golden Gate Bird Alliance