From pre-dawn wetlands to hidden birding spots, we’ll keep adding to this collection as we explore, learn, and celebrate our local birds and the community that loves them. Follow along.
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THROUGH THE PEN: A TRIBUTE TO THE BIRDS OF THE BAY
On our website, we share field stories that didn’t make it into the book—moments from across the Bay Area spent with birds and the people who study, watch, and protect them.
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Once an army airfield, this restored marsh now offers vital habitat—proof that thoughtful conservation can bring life back to the Bay’s edges.
🐦 In The Shadow of The Bridge
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Winter at Hamilton Wetlands reveals wide, gleaming mudflats shaped by powerful King Tides, where American Avocet wade through the shallows, sweeping their elegant upturned bills for food.
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For Bay Area residents eager to experience restored landscapes, you needn’t venture far. Hamilton Wetlands provides intimate access to watch threatened Western Snowy Plovers
We follow Ryan across the dunes as he scans the ground with a spotting scope. Ryan’s puffy gray jacket and tan canvas pants make him look like a creature of the sands, too—he blends in almost as well as the birds he seeks.
The morning light glints off the ocean, and a raven wheels high above, its shadow skimming the sand. Ryan watches it carefully. “Ravens are smart,” he says. “They learn where the nests are. Once they’ve found one, they keep coming back.”
Development, off-leash dogs, beachgoers, and predators like ravens and gulls have made nesting a perilous gamble.
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Snowy Plovers are sand-colored, round-bodied birds with dark eye patches and legs like toothpicks. Camouflage is their best defense—they nest right on the open beach, laying eggs in shallow scrapes in the sand.
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But that same vulnerability has pushed them to the brink. Listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act since 1993, Snowy Plovers have struggled to hold on to their habitat in California.
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A biologist will tell you the bird is looking for potential prey, a mate, or a predator. Fine, we’re all doing some version of that, right?
Mary Ellen Hannibal
Award-winning environmental author
Wrote the foreword for In the Shadow of the Bridge
New Blog Alert! The Shape of Flight
In a photo that Dick Evans recently snapped, a Black Phoebe swoops low over a pond at Las Gallinas. The green surface of the water is dimpled from the movement of the bird’s wings; the phoebe’s feathers splay out in a translucent fan.