Friday Bird Walks

Each Friday NSAS offers a morning field trip to a destination in Napa or Solano County. A carpool departs from the standard Napa carpool location at 8:00am** and the trip usually concludes by noon. A weekly email describing the coming Friday’s birding is delivered to a list that now exceeds 100 NSAS members. A typical trip attracts a dozen birders. Through the seasons we try to catch the local “spectacles” of birding: spring shorebirds at American Canyon; winter raptors and Mountain Plovers in the Solano prairie; or fall warblers at Lagoon Valley. The morning’s birding nearly always includes a good walk of variable length. For example, there are three sides to Lake Hennessey and we have birded them all. Huichica Creek Wildlife Area can be approached a number of ways on foot, each of them offers a unique perspective of grassland and marsh. Land Trust properties are popular destinations, including Lynch Canyon and Foote Botanical Preserve. And we sometimes focus on more than just birds: each trip usually includes a talented plant expert. In searching for variety each week, new and interesting birding locations have turned up, and participants have welcomed us to their homes, ranches and Atlas blocks. It is a great experience of learning and sharing, and you are invited!

** If you are joining the group for the first time & are not already on the email notification list, please call (707 224-6133) to verify the time & meeting place – occasionally we depart at 7:00 or 7:30am and under inclement weather conditions (rain, high temperature or wind), the trip may be canceled.

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