Welcome to birdWalker, a website of birding photos and trip reports by Bill Walker and Mary Wisnewski, California birders based in Santa Clara County. We've been collecting our trip reports since 1996, we have now recorded 699 trips and 541 species.

Some of our favorite places to go birding include Charleston Slough and the Duck Pond in Palo Alto, Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, and the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.

The 2010 BirdWalker wall calendar is available now from my online store at Cafepress. I chose these images from my favorites taken in the last twelve months. It makes a great gift for any occasion.

So far in day 72 of 2010 we have seen 110 species. Last year at this time we had seen 112.

The Bird of the Week is the Turkey Vulture
Photographed Saturday, March 10, 2007 at Point Reyes National Seashore

We started at Natural Bridges State Beach. We tried Neary Lagoon, but most of it was fenced off due to some combination of high water levels and construction. After stopping at the bakery, we went south to Capitola marina to see gulls in flight. Our last stop was at College Lake (near Watsonville's Kelly Lake)

Weather was high overcast for most of the day; almost no wind; High for the day around 60 degrees.

We observed 10 species on January 15 at Lake Merritt in Alameda County, California.

We observed 8 species on January 08 at Union City Library in Alameda County, California.

We were part of the Mines Road / Del Puerto Canyon Road team

We observed 31 species on January 01 at 2 locations in Santa Clara County, California

We decided to take our vietnamese sandwiches to the bay and preview the high tide on new year's day. We arrived an hour after high tide. Skies were partly cloudy

We observed 87 species on December 20 at Drawbridge in Santa Clara County, California.