Registration is NOT required for this field trip.

Field Trip Leader: Dan Williams

Join Dan for a full day of birding two great tidal marsh hotspots in the North Bay Area. We will start at Wetlands Edge Park in American Canyon where we will walk the slough trails toward the Napa River mouth. The marshes at this time of year should be teeming with migrant shorebirds such as Marbled Godwit, Willet, both Yellowlegs, both Dowitcher, and Wilson's Phalarope. There are usually Caspian and Forster's Terns out over the open water, and we may even get lucky and spot a Least Tern. We will spend the morning at this location, then head west into Sonoma County to Shollenberger Park in Petaluma. There we will eat our lunch, then take a leisurely stroll around Shollenberger's legendary wetlands where there are always multitudes of birds. Some less common targets we'll be looking for include Blue-winged Teal, Pacific Golden-Plover, American Bittern, and Golden Eagle. Hiking is easy on dirt trails and mostly flat ground.

Meeting Location: Meet Dan at the Park & Ride off I-80 in West Sacramento.

Directions: From Sacramento, take the West Capitol Avenue, Exit #81, turn left at the light, and then left again into the Park & Ride lot. Meet in the southeast section of the parking lot.

Marbled Godwit, Image by Larry Hickey