Education:

Monthly Educational Meetings:

Our monthly educational meetings include guest speakers, unusual bird sightings, refreshments, and conversation. Visitors are always welcomed!

Our meetings are held at 7-9 p.m. on the first Thursday of every month (except July and August when we take a summer break) in the Camellia Room at The Gardens of Heather Farn’s, 1540 Marchbanks Drive, Walnut Creek.

6:30 p.m. Doors open
7:00 p.m. Birding Information
7:25 p.m. Business meeting
7:40 p.m. Social time, refreshments and door prize drawing
8:05 p.m. Program

Map of 1540 Marchbanks Dr
Walnut Creek, CA 94598-2158

Directions to 1540 Marchbanks Dr
Walnut Creek, CA 94598-2158

Classes:

DENISE WIGHT CLASSES / FIELD TRIPS

Visit Denise's Website for more information and dates.

Trivia: Do Birds Store their Food like some animals do?

A few bird species make great efforts to store food for later use, a behavior called caching. Acorn Woodpeckers are well known for their elaborate caching methods. They store acorns in holes chiseled with their bills in the bark of live oaks or sycamores. Sometime Acorn Woodpeckers also use telephone poles and other wooden structures in their territories. As many as 50,000 acorns have been reported in a single tree.

Caching birds such as the Scrub Jay are able to remember the locations of their cache sites with considerable accuracy by using prominent landscape features as cues. Species vary in the length of time they leave food cached and in how long they can remember cache locations.

- Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior by David Allen Sibley

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