Palo Alto Baylands
On Saturday February 7, 2009, nine brave soles joined myself and guide Lisa Meyers of Let’s Go Birding on our annual birding workshop fieldtrip. This year we decided to bird the Palo Alto Baylands. If you have ever been on one of our trips then you know we learn a lot, but we also have one heck of a fun time doing it. This year was no different. Usually hikers and birders don’t mesh too well. I think long time customer Ardis summed it up best when she said, “the slug on the trail was moving faster than us.” Yes birding isn’t much of a work out, but it can be a great reason to get outside. In a little less than three hours we identified over 48 different species of birds. Birding is what you make of it. For some there may be life list birds that you will end up traveling the world for. Others are simply just curious about the types of birds that they have in their backyard or that they see along the trail as they hike. What ever your motivation is, I hope you can join us on our next field trip.