[SBB] SFBBO Fall Challenge begins Saturday

[Mike Rogers <[[email protected]]>]

All,

For those of you who haven't heard about it yet, SFBBO's (San Francisco 
Bay Bird Observatory's) Fall Big Day fundraiser "The Fall Challenge" 
starts this Saturday. The idea is to do a Big Day and have the proceeds 
go to SFBBO, helping them greatly in keeping their wonderful programs 
running, including the banding work at one of our favorite birding spots 
along Coyote Creek! If some of you don't know how to do a "Big Day" 
that's not a problem, there are several guided trips that you can join 
and the trip leaders will explain the concept and even help you identify 
lots of birds for your fundraising efforts. SFFBO has lots of tips on 
how to fundraise (see their website below) but if you are not interested 
in that you can still take part in the guided trips simply by paying the 
Fall Challenge entry fee of $25.

The guided trips are of varying intensity. You can join a half-day trip, 
or go dawn to dusk with die-hard birders. The different options are 
posted on the SFFBO website listed below. The first trips are this 
Saturday 17 Sep. I am leading a trip to various bayside areas in Santa 
Clara County from Alviso to Palo Alto, starting at 8am amd going until 
1pm or 2pm - whatever it takes to find 100 species! Phil Gordon is also 
leading a half-day trip Saturday in Alameda County - see the website for 
details.

Sign up for the trips with Sharon at [[email protected]]

If anyone is also subscribed to pen-birds or EBB these trips may be of 
interest to birders in those groups as well.

SFBBO website:  http://www.sfbbo.org/

guided birdathon page:   http://www.sfbbo.org/CFC%2005/cfc05_trips.htm

Hope to see some of you Saturday!
Mike Rogers

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