San Francisco Bay Area Field Trips
YBT has a long tradition of supporting citizen science and hands-on conservation initiatives, Marin Audubon volunteer functions, focused bird surveys, birding festivals tabling & leader of field trips, NGO fundraisers, Christmas Bird Counts and California State Park vetted bird walk docent. Please review the events and find a field trip you can join us on.
9/21/19 Olompali State Park, Novato, Ca., Birding for Fall Migrants
Bat Night 2019 is an annual event which happens first of August 3, 2019. This free event draws many families to an evening of education and fun for all, P.S. Bring the Grandparents The Olompali State Park is for five years now an Audubon Christmas Bird Count...
8/30/19: Larkspur Community Piper Park, Beginning Birding
During the fall many migrating birds pass through the Bay Area joining our resident population. This introduction to bird watching will combine a Saturday morning classroom discussions of bird identification and use of binoculars, scopes and field guides with 3...
2019 Alameda Creek Restoration – Fisheries and Bird habitat improvements
The construction of the new Calaveras Dam near Sunol EBRP will allow year-round stream flows to be maintained, supporting a future Steelhead fishery in Alameda Creek. This re-watering of the Alameda Creek will provide rich enhancement of the oak/sycamore riparian...
2019 Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area
The San Francisco Bay Audubon Society’s chapters along with a number of other conservation groups filed suit to get our government's attention to provide a solution to stop the killing of raptors and other avian species in eastern Alameda County. The solution is...
Alameda Creek Watershed Council
The Alameda Creek Watershed Council (ACRCD) comprises a government agency as well as 501c civic green conservation groups. Their charge is to manage the third largest watershed in California. The Alameda Creek watershed covers 570 square miles. Its drainage flows into...
GGRO daily hawkwatch update
- Monday, September 16, 2019With a decent amount of fog covering the Marin Headlands this morning, we prepared to start watching for hawks near the roundabout on Conzelman Road. Once we reached the base of Hawk Hill, we realized that the sky was clearing overhead, so we made our way to the top to begin our official raptor count. […]
- Sunday, September 15, 2019Today started off extremely foggy with limited visibility. The hawk watchers remained patient and the fog lifted at 1pm leaving nothing but clear and sunny skies. The Sunday I team was greeted with 215 passing raptors which included two dark morph Broad-winged Hawks! We also had another successful raptor release this weekend at Hawk Hill. […]