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$2,092

Raised of $250

Sonoma County Feminist Bird Club

Team participating in Birdathon for the Congo

Takes place May 17-20, 2024

Captained by Sonoma County Feminist Bird Club

We're birding for a better world! Can you cheer us on?

Our team is excited to be a part of Feminist Bird Club's Birdathon for Congo! We are coming together to celebrate the inclusive nature of bird joy while fundraising for Friends of the Congo, a nonprofit that amplifies, resources and empowers communities at the frontlines of the climate crisis in Congo.

Please help our team reach our goal by leaving a flat donation or making a pledge to support any of our team members in this inclusive campaign and/or joining our team to help us fundraise as a participant (click SIGN UP on the right side of this page)!

Thank you for your support, and stay tuned for birding updates from our team!

Check out https://charity.pledgeit.org/BirdForCongo for more general info about this campaign.

Team Members 5

Jeffer Giang

11 mo. ago

WHOOPS. Minor update to my bird species count. Was looking through my photos on my lunch break and thought this one did NOT look like a Red-tailed Hawk. I zoomed in/cropped it a lot and brightened up the shadows and realized it was a Swainson's Hawk!!! Bumped up my count to 103. This is a county lifer for me haha!

Jeffer Giang

11 mo. ago

LASTLY-- thank you to all my donors!!!! I appreciate the boost yesterday and today. We did it!

Here's an Ash-throated Flycatcher I saw this morning before work.

Jeffer Giang

11 mo. ago

2

bird species found

$3.56

Per bird species found

$7.12

Earned

Ending the Birdathon with 102 species!

Went to Santa Rosa Creek Trail this evening hoping to maybe see a Cooper's Hawk or a Hairy/Downy Woodpecker or maybe a Great Horned Owl on the way out. Saw this Hairy Woodpecker pretty quickly. It's a reliable spot for them. Then, I also saw a Northern Rough-winged Swallow which made for 102!

Didn't see a Cooper's Hawk. DID see a Red-shouldered Hawk (not new for the weekend) land on a tree, upsetting two Bullock's Orioles which I assume had a nest nearby. What I thought was kinda funny was the very indifferent Western Bluebird that was perched maybe two feet away from it.

Upon leaving the trail, a Bewick's Wren flew down onto the path ahead of me and started taking a dust bath. I waited til it stood up and and took off.

Oh what I meant to update on about yesterday's birding-- I saw those Avocet fledglings and then ended up witnessing a storm of Black-necked Stilts and American Avocets taking off to chase off a Western Gulls (I think) and then a Northern Harrier twice. I think the Stilts and Avocets were successful (for the time being).

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