Join Jack for this introduction to our most common and notable backyard birds. We'll discuss about 15 different species, explaining how to identify them, how you can attract them with feeders or nesting boxes, their migration patterns, and how to generally become more friendly and familiar with our major backyard bird species.
Join guest leader David Wimpfheimer and Jack from Wild Birds Unlimited for a spring walk on Mount Burdell. We’ll be looking and listening for a variety of spring songbirds, including Bullock’s orioles, lark sparrows, orange-crowned warblers, warbling vireos, and arriving lazuli buntings among the lush green hillsides of Marin’s premier oak savanna habitat.
Join Jack for this walk at Novato's Deer Island Open Space Preserve. This wooded hill rising above seasonal wetlands offers a wide variety of spring songbirds. We'll look and listen for ash-throated flycatchers, purple finches, nuthatches, wrens, and a variety of woodpeckers. Meanwhile, the surrounding open areas attract raptors and our various summer swallow species.
Join Jack and Don from Wild Birds Unlimited for a spring walk on the Loma Alta Fire Road. This trail heads south from Lucas Valley Road over wildflower-covered grasslands dotted with groves of oaks and rocky outcroppings, a unique habitat type that hosts a number of special birds. We'll be looking in particular for lazuli buntings, lark and grasshopper sparrows, meadowlarks, and possible horned larks, as well as enjoying the birdsong from a variety of other spring songbirds.
Join Jack for this walk at Novato’s Indian Valley Open Space Preserve. These mostly shaded trails on the north side of Big Rock Ridge provide homes for a wide variety of woodland songbirds. More open areas host ash-throated flycatchers, blue-gray gnatcatchers, and western bluebirds, while the more densely wooded sections contain Wilson's warblers, pacific-slope flycatchers, and a few pileated woodpeckers.