Denise Wight's Birding Pages

Last updated 21 May 2012

Welcome!

For students of my birding classes and everyone interested in learning more about the birds of the East Bay, the entire San Francisco Bay Area, and California.

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Albany Adult School Birding by Ear -  2012 No classes currently scheduled - Have a great summer! I will be leading the Contra Costa County Mini-Big Day for SFBBO in October

The Alameda Breeding Bird Atlas is now available.

Bobbing behavior of Northern Waterthrush found by Paul Schorr  at Contra Loma Res., Antioch, Contra Costa County, CA.

Great Horned Owl chick Bubo virginianus    Photo by Dave Furseth

Black-headed Grosbeak                   Pheucticus melanocephalus Photo by Dave Furseth

Listen to the calls of a Great Horned Owl I recorded in Moraga, CA.

Bathing Bushtits These little cuties take a bath in a stream at U.C. Berkeley Botanical Garden

MDAS Northern California Daily Checklist NEW 2010 Contra Costa County Checklist now available!

415-681-7422

What "rare" birds currently are being seen in our area? Call the Northern California Bird Box for the latest updates:

Not sure what birds have been seen California?  The state total is now up to 646. Take a look at the official California Bird List of the Western Field Ornithologists' California Bird Records Committee.   Updated  12 Mar 2012.

Sialia.com for daily California bird sightings posts.

Buller's Sheawater                                                                                                         by Mike Dansenbaker Puffinus bulleri