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 39 of 2010 we have seen 110 species. Last year at this time we had seen 74.

The Bird of the Week is the Gray Jay
Photographed Sunday, February 12, 2006 at Rocky Mountain National Park

Our second most visited site; location of bill's first birdwalk with Steve Shunk. Includes birds sighted at Lucy Evans Nature Center. Note to photographers: This site is now most famous for the egret and night-heron rookery located immediately adjacent to the duck pond parking lot. Here in April and May you can get great morning light shots of nesting egrets and night-herons squabbling over nest sites, sitting on eggs, perched in the palm trees with their chicks, or flying frequently to and ...

in the back we have a peanut feeder, a thistle feeder, and a general purpose seed feeder

Located near Panoche in San Benito County, California. We have recorded 84 species during 4 trips. The first trip was over 9 years ago, the latest trip was 23 days ago.

Located near Larwrence in Alameda County, California. We have recorded 80 species during 6 trips. The first trip was over 8 years ago, the latest trip was about 1 month ago.

Located near in San Benito County, California. We have recorded 101 species during 2 trips. The first trip was over 5 years ago, the latest trip was 23 days ago.

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 9 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.