Hobbies And Interests
Things You'll Need
Instructions
Buy a book on California birding. Using it as a guide, map out a route that will include the best birding areas.
Concentrate on shorebirds in early fall (July-September). Visit coastal estuaries, river mouths, mudflats and sewage treatment plants.
Take a pelagic trip out of Monterey Bay or Bodega Bay. Thousands of migrating seabirds (including a few very rare ones) make this the perfect time to go sea-birding.
Take a boat out of Ventura to see the Island Scrub-Jay on Santa Cruz Island, in the Channel Islands National Park. This bird is not found anywhere else in the world.
Start looking for migrating passerines in early September. Coastal migrant traps with riparian habitat are generally the most productive.