By Ilana DeBare Some weekends there are just TOO many things to do! And that goes double during fall migration season. This past Saturday was

By Ilana DeBare John Muir “Jack” Laws, a Golden Gate Bird Alliance board member and author of several field guides, has a beautiful new book

By Phila Rogers Every year when I flip over the calendar from August to September, I pin up on the wall above my desk the

By Frances Dupont A Golden Gate Bird Alliance docent hikes a half mile to the northeast corner of Cesar Chavez Park, carrying binoculars, camera, brochures,

Note: Golden Gate Bird Alliance is delighted to reprint this blog post by Rue Mapp, founder of Outdoor Afro, an organization that reconnects African-Americans with natural

By Bob Lewis I took a class with bird photographer Artie Morris in San Diego some years ago. His co-leader was Todd Gustafson, a well-known African

By Burr Heneman In his Metamorphoses, Ovid tells of a certain nymph, the most famous of all the wood nymphs. She was much beloved by

By Jack Dumbacher  Some bird species show tremendous geographic variation in plumage or body measurements.  For example, Fox Sparrows have a sooty Pacific form and

By Noreen Weeden Out at Heron’s Head Park in San Francisco on August 6, I saw my “first of season” Spotted Sandpiper.  In fact there

By Ilana DeBare We recently had a fascinating encounter with a kite at Pier 94 – not a White-tailed Kite, but a camera kite. Cris

By Phila Rogers Whether it’s the Bay sparkling in the morning sun, a mountain lake in a granite bowl, or the clear sky itself, the