Last Sunday I went on an excellent birding field trip with my field ornithology class, bagging 2 lifers and 1 year bird. Short-eared rabbit at Drake’s Beach
Archive for October, 2007
Birding at outer Point Reyes
Posted in Birding, Hiking, Nature, Photography, Wildflowers on 14 October, 2007 | 12 Comments »
EA 110 – Field Ornithology – Class 6
Posted in Birding on 12 October, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Wednesday was another great class in the continuing field ornithology class I’m taking. It’s hard to believe that next week is the last class of this session (but the next set of 7 classes starts the following week, and I do plan on continuing to take this class indefinitely, or until we finish the book, [...]
Charleston Slough and Shoreline Park Birding
Posted in Birding, Nature, Photography on 9 October, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Oops, almost a week late here, but last Monday, 1 October, I birded Shoreline at Mountain View Park and had a fine time of it, although I didn’t see any rarities. American White Pelicans, American Coots, Ducks, and Dowitchers in Charleston Slough
EA 110 – Field Ornithology – Class 5
Posted in Birding on 4 October, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Last night’s class began with Joe’s account of the annual WFO meeting in Las Vegas the previous weekend. One gets the impression that Joe doesn’t much care for LV . Of the convention and trip: when in Vegas, bird at the Henderson Sewer Ponds, which has set up a nice bird observation site with an [...]
Western SF birding
Posted in Birding, Nature, Photography on 1 October, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Saturday proved a fine day for birding in the western parts of San Francisco, netting me 43 species, probably the most I’ve seen in a (mostly) solo outing. Red-shouldered Hawk










