Registration is NOT required for this field trip.

Field Trip Leader: Dan Williams 

Join Dan for a full day of birding at two great tidal marsh hotspots in the Napa area. We will start at Wetlands Edge Park in American Canyon where we will walk the slough trails near the Napa River mouth. The marshes there at this time of year are usually teeming with migrant shorebirds such as Marbled Godwits, Willets, both yellowlegs, both dowitchers, and Black-bellied and Semipalmated Plovers. There are usually Caspian and Forster's Terns out over the open water, and one year we got lucky and had a rare migrant Black Tern fly over. We will spend the morning at this location, have a picnic lunch, then head north and west a bit to the Huichica Unit. This spot at the north end of the wildlife area is quite reliable for Least Terns, and there are often good numbers of Wilson's and Red-necked Phalaropes, and lots of other shorebirds to pick through! Bring a lunch, plenty of water, and sturdy shoes. We will be walking a fair amount, but on easy dirt trails over mostly flat ground.

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

Directions to Park & Ride: 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.

Semipalmated Plover © Daniel Lee Brown