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From Peter Colasanti, August 2018 August is the month when birding rises back out of the summer doldrums in the Petaluma Wetlands as birds that breed to the north start their southward journey to...
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From Peter Colasanti: June is lovely. It’s mostly spring, the days are the longest, we’ll have clear skies at dawn. It’s a great month to get married or go birding in...
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From Peter Colasanti: Welcome to May, the breedingest month in the Petaluma wetlands. By May Day the early birds start hatching eggs while the late migrants are all freshly arrived and...
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From Peter Colasanti, April 2018 I confess that April is my favorite month for birding Northern California. The green of the landscape is broken only by the...
read moreBirding Petaluma Wetlands Through the Months : March
From Peter Colasanti: To anyone who has lived through a real winter, March in the Petaluma Wetlands feels the most like the essence of springtime. It must be that way to the birds...
read moreBirding Petaluma Wetlands Through the Months: January 2018
From Peter Colasanti, JAN 2018: A game most birders play involves the keeping of a year list, and those fireworks you heard Sunday night were to announce that it’s time to start yours for...
read moreBirding Petaluma Wetlands Through the Months: December
From: Peter Colasanti December, the darkest month, feels like the coldest. Well it’s also the birdiest one in the Petaluma Wetlands, with 144 species logged since 2005 for the month. It only...
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From Peter Colasanti, 11-17 By early November most of the long distance migrant birds have taken the advice of their DNA and relocated to the longer and sunnier days of the...
read moreBirding Petaluma Wetlands Through the Year : October
From Peter Colasanti In October the migration of long distance landbirds is largely past, though some possibilities for finding vagrants remain, even in the Petaluma...
read moreBirding Petaluma Wetlands Through the Year : September
From Peter Colasanti, 09-17: September is the richest month for birding generally in Northern California, and that very wealth creates challenges. Populations of most...
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