Birds and Words Literary Bird Walk

In early April, many species of birds who have wintered elsewhere arrive to forage in the mountains’ forests and stream corridors. Swifts, hummingbirds, warblers, tanagers, and other visitors find seasonal homes among resident species on Oona-pa’is. Migrations have been integral to wild and human lives on Oona-pa’is (Sonoma Mountain) for millennia. Following favorable climate, familial ties, and food availability is necessary to a community’s survival and healthy diversity.

Join long-time guide, author, and scientist Rebecca Lawton for a literary bird walk on Oona-pa’is (Sonoma Mountain). Spend the morning looking and listening for new avian arrivals. Stroll toward the site of Jack London’s lake, looking for wild birds and musing on prose and poetry about many kinds of migrations.

The group will keep a list for submission to eBird, adding group sightings to databases used by scientists who research the mysteries of migrations. As the birding allows, explore the words of writers on migrations, actual and metaphorical, and how valuable migrants are to local ecosystems and neighborhoods. The distance covered will be based on the bird life sighted but expect one to three miles round trip.