Audubon Society Birding Walk
Friday Bird Walks in Napa Each Friday Audubon Society offers a morning field trip to a destination in Napa or Solano County. A carpool departs Napa at 8:00am** and the trip 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. In addition to great trips with good old regular birds, 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 in Solano and Foote Botanical Preserve in Napa. Beyond learning about the local birdlife, 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. You are invited along each and every Friday of the year.
** 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.