[EBB Sightings] Oakland and San Francisco Christmas Bird Counts

Hello, Bay Area Birders:

Golden Gate Audubon Society sponsors two Christmas Bird Counts:

        Oakland --- Sunday, December 19
        San Francisco -- Tuesday, December 28

Invitations have already been mailed to everyone who participated in
either count in recent years.  If you participated but haven't received
your invitation yet it should arrive any day now.

This note is to invite new participants to join the counts.  You'll have
a chance to sample the bird life in an area that fits your interests and
abilities, under the leadership of an experienced birder.  At the end of
the day you can attend the "count dinner," to learn what birds others
have found, and where.  A rarity or two usually turns up, so learning of
them on the day of discovery can help you see them too.  Who can forget
the Canada Warbler found on San Francisco's count two years ago,
evidently the first record of this species wintering in North America?

Call Golden Gate Audubon Society at 510-843-2222 to request sign-up
forms for either count, sign up for the Oakland count at

http://www.goldengateaudubon.org/birding/2004-11_cbcoak_signup.htm

or contact one of the compilers for more information:

Compilers: San Francisco -- Alan Hopkins, ash at sfo.com, (415) 664-0983
                   Oakland -- Bob Lewis, rlewis0727 at aol.com, (510)
845-5001, and
                                     Dave Quady, davequady at att.net,
(510) 704-9353

Hope to see you at the counts!

And apologies for cross-posting.


Dave Quady
Berkeley, California
davequady at att.net