Benicia CBC Pre-Count Benicia Community Park at 8:30 a.m. with Tom Slyker & Robin Leong
2025-12-12 08:30 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Benicia Community Park, 540 Rose Drive, Benicia, 94510, United States
Location: Benicia Community Park
Time: 8:30 a.m.
This trip will highlight and scout out several locations for the upcoming Benicia Christmas Bird Count. We hope to continue from Benicia Community Park and visit the Benicia Pier and Benicia State Park … depending on time. Species observed can be recorded for the count week.

Christmas Bird Count for Kids Sunday, December 14th American Canyon Wetlands at 9:00 a.m.
2025-12-14 09:00 - 13:00 | American Canyon Wetlands, 2 Eucalyptus Dr, American Canyon, 94503, United States
Children, bring your parents and a brown bag lunch, water bottle, and come join us to look for birds at American Canyon Wetlands on Sunday, December 14th. We will meet at 9:00 a.m. near the parking area, review birding strategies, have a quick binocular training, break into small groups, and bird throughout the wetlands. We will reconvene to share bird observations, and hear each teams’ highlights. This half-day CBC4Kids is designed as a fun activity for kids aged 7-16 and modeled after the traditional CBCs geared largely towards adults and birding clubs. We will introduce students to citizen science collection techniques and teach them how to use eBird, Cornell Universities’ International Database for bird observations. Parents and their children will join birding team leaders in a fun day of celebrating nature in this wonderful wildlife preserve. Remember to dress in layers and be prepared for the predicted weather.

Benicia Christmas Bird Count - Monday, December 15, 2025 - Join a Team!
2025-12-15 08:00 - 17:00 | CA
We’d be delighted if you could join us for a day of birding at this year’s Benicia Christmas Bird Count (BCBC). The Benicia Count was founded in 1930 (95 years ago!) and this year Tom Slyker and Robin Leong are organizing this FUN event. The BCBC count circle includes the communities of Benicia, East Vallejo, Cordelia, West Suisun City, as well as parts of Grizzly Island and all of Grizzly Bay. We will have many teams birding the area, with experienced team leaders and various levels of hiking & walking involved. To join this year’s CBC please sign up using our Google Form at https://bit.ly/3JGFrbF. You can find a link to this form along with additional CBC information on our website at https://napasolanobirds.org/. If you have any problems with accessing the form or you want more information about the CBC, Contact Tom Slyker or 707-771-1918 to let us know you are interested in joining our group of birders for this year’s event. Be sure to let Tom know the type of surface & the level of exercise that would be best for you and we will match you with a count team suited to your request. This year we will be serving Mexican food at our compilation dinner which will be held in the Community Center Room of the Church of Latter-day Saints at 1125 Southampton Road, Benicia, CA 94510. HAPPY BIRDING! Tom Slyker

Angwin Christmas Bird Count - Thursday, January 1st, 2026 - Join a Team
2026-01-01 08:00 - 17:00 | CA
Start the New Year off with a blast by participating in the Angwin CBC! Birding opportunities are available throughout the count circle including the Napa Valley, Pope Valley, Lakes Berryessa, Hennessey, and Angwin. We have an excellent crew of experienced area leaders so everyone is encouraged to take part. The count is an important measure of local birdlife, and has gained added importance as a tool to monitor changes in numbers & distribution of birds in the wildfire burn zone that impacted about forty percent of the count circle in 2020. Our compilation dinner begins at 5:00 p.m. at the Carnegie Building – 1360 Oak Ave. St. Helena, CA 94574 – situated at the corner of Oak Ave & Adams St., where we will share highlights of each count teams’ birding adventures. For details & how to participate: Contact Murray Berner

NSAS Speaker Series Presents: "Birding from Here to There" with Harry Fuller Thursday, January 8, 2026 at 7:00 p.m.
2026-01-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Napa Valley Lutheran Church, 1796 Elm St., Napa, CA 94558, 94558
About the Presentation: We will explore what San Francisco’a natural history was like BEFORE the missions and the Gold Rush. Which bird species became known to science because they were found in the Bay Area? Then we will digitally explore the best birding spots along I-5 heading north. Where is there a Lewis’s Woodpecker community near the freeway? When we get just inside the Oregon border, we’ll spend some time looking for Great Gray Owls.
About the Presenter: Harry Fuller has lived in Oregon since 2007. Before retirement he managed TV and Internet newsrooms in San Francisco and London. Harry has written four natural history books, including Birding Harney County; Great Gray Owl in California, Oregon and Washington; and San Francisco’s Natural History, Sand Dunes to Streetcars. Oregon State University Press published Edge of Awe in 2019. It is an anthology of essays about Malheur and the Steens. Fuller contributed the chapter on Common Nighthawks at Malheur. He has been leading bird trips and teaching birding classes since the 1990s. Currently he leads trips for the Malheur Field Station, Salem Audubon Society, and the Klamath Bird Observatory, and provides private guiding service. His birding journal is online: ecowise.wordpress.com.

NSAS Field Trip to Consumnes River Preserve Saturday, January 17th with Bruce Thomsen & Mark Stephenson
2026-01-17 08:00 - 16:00 | Consumnes River Preserve, 13501 Franklin Blvd, Galt, CA, 95632, United States
The Cosumnes River Preserve protects one of California’s last remaining undammed rivers and its associated ecosystems: wetlands, riparian oak forest, grasslands, and sloughs. It is home to more than 250 species of birds, over 40 fish species and more than 230 plant species. We will walk nature trails observing woodland and riparian birds and boardwalks searching for close-up views of waterfowl. Next on the trip we will head over to the Woodbridge Ecological Preserve. This preserve provides California’s largest area of freshwater marsh wintering habitat. Featured here are the majestic sandhill crane, along with geese, swans and many other waterbirds. The trip will conclude at the Nature Conservancy’s Staten Island. Staten Island has been a wintering destination for sandhill cranes moving along the Pacific Flyway for more than 40 years. Situated in the heart of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, Staten Island’s 9,200 acres are located between the North and South Forks of the Mokelumne River, with thousands of acres of crops in production annually, that provide both foraging and roosting habitat for these beautiful cranes.

Winged Migration Expo - Building 69 - January 31st - February 1st
2026-01-31 - 2026-02-01 | Winged Migration Expo, 1001 Waterfront Ave, Vallejo, CA, 94592, United States
Stay tuned for many events, including birding field trips, expert speakers, educational tabling, interactive kids activities, food and drink vendors, area hikes, and historic ship viewing are scheduled for this year’s Winged Migration Expo. Activities will be held at Building 69, Mare Island, Waterfront Avenue between Kansas and 4th Street, parallel to Nimitz Ave. Many Birding Field Trips will be held throughout the weekend led by experienced Birders. For more information, a complete schedule, and to see how you can support this year’s festival visit their website: wingedmigrationexpo.com
