Share your love of nature

Share your love of nature

ByGGBA

Love birds? Want to share your love with others? As fall approaches, we need volunteers to work with kids in our Eco-Education program and to serve as docents along the East Bay shoreline.

No prior experience needed — just a love of birds and nature. We are offering several training sessions in September. Here are the opportunities:

Birding the Bay Trail Docents. Help walkers, bikers and others using the Bay Trail to identify and appreciate the birds of the Richmond shoreline!  Docents are asked to commit to volunteering once a month for two hours from October through March. Docent training will be held on Tuesday, September 24 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. For questions or RSVP, contact Noreen Weeden at nweeden@goldengatebirdalliance.org.

Burrowing Owl Docents. The Burrowing Owls of Cesar Chavez Park are avian celebrities. Help park users sight  and understand these winter visitors. Docents are asked to commit two hours every two weeks. Training will take place on Saturday, September 28 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For questions or RSVP, contact Noreen Weeden at nweeden@goldengatebirdalliance.org.

Eco-Education Volunteers. Accompany our award-winning Eco-Ed staff as they lead 3rd through 5th grade classes on field trips to creeks and the bay. Help kids observe local birdlife, collect and study plankton and invertebrates, plant native plants, and learn about our Bay Area environment. No extended commitments necessary — every effort helps!

Eco-Ed trainings will take place on Thursday Sept 12 and Saturday Sept 14 in San Francisco, and Thursday Sept. 19 and Saturday Sept 21 in the East Bay. (Your choice.) Each session runs from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Bring a lunch! For information and RSVP, email Eco-Education Director Anthony DeCicco at adecicco@goldengatebirdalliance.org.

Eco-Education program in the field / Photo by Anthony DeCicco…
Beginning Birding class starts on May 8

Beginning Birding class starts on May 8

ByGGBA

Ever wonder what those little tweeting yellow guys are in your backyard? Now’s your chance to find out — in our spring Beginning Birding class.

With four evening classroom sessions and four Saturday morning field trips, this class is a perfect way to start learning about birds or to improve your existing birding skills.

Anna's Hummingbird / Photo by Rick Lewis

Instructor Anne Hoff will familiarize you with the tools of the trade — binoculars, field guides, scopes, and more. She’ll show you places to watch birds in the Bay Area, and help you learn to identify the birds of the bay and uplands. Singing, breeding birds in their most colorful plumage make spring a particularly inviting season for birdwatching. Class includes:

Four Wednesday evenings — 7 to 8:30 p.m. — May 8, 15, 22, 29

Four Saturday field trips — 8 to 10:30 a.m. — May 11,18, 25, and June 1

Cost: $85 for Golden Gate Bird Alliance members, $105 for non-members

This class will take place at the Golden Gate Bird Alliance office at 2530 San Pablo Avenue, Suite G, in Berkeley (at Blake).

To register for Beginning Birding online, please click here. Class is limited to 15 participants; then there will be a waiting list in case any registrants drop out.

Questions? Email Ilana at idebare@goldengatebirdalliance.org.

 

Photo of Western Tanager on GGBA home page by Bob Lewis.…

Spring 2013 Gull is available
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Spring 2013 Gull is available

ByGGBA

The new edition of The Gull newsletter for Spring  2013 is now available online, with a report on progress in protecting birds at the Altamont wind farm, profiles of Birdathon trip leaders, plus features on the Western Scrub Jay and the U.C. Botanical Garden as a birding site.

This is the first issue of our redesigned Gull — full color, more photos, quarterly, with more information than ever on Bay Area birds and birding.

Click here to read it:  Gull – Spring 2013

And let us know what you think! Please send your comments and suggestions to Communications Director Ilana DeBare and Gull Editor Judith Dunham at idebare@goldengatebirdalliance.org .…

January 2013 Gull is available
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January 2013 Gull is available

ByGGBA

 

The new edition of The Gull newsletter for January 2013 is now available online, with  a report by Bob Lewis on bird population trends in the Oakland Christmas Bird Count, an open letter from former GGBA Executive Director Arthur Feinstein, upcoming field trips and speaker events,  and more.

 

 

Click here to read it in color:  Gull – Jan 2013

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