What can you do? Would you like to get out and work with your hands? Or are you at stay at home kind of person? We have lots of great jobs. Get involved with Sequoia Audubon and help the birds with some of these volunteer opportunities. Take a look at these listings and if you don't see just the right job that you want to do, call Call Sue Cossins (650) 347-9358

Audubon Canyon Ranch

The public season at Audubon Canyon Ranch starts on March 20, 2010, and runs through July 11. The hosting responsibilities are shared by four Audubon chapters: Golden Gate, Marin, Ohlone, and Sequoia. Being a host is a very easy task that involves counting people, telling them where the trail-heads and the ponds are, explaining a few rules, and asking for donations. Hours are from 10 am - 4 pm, with two breaks and a lunch. The setting is beautiful and usually warm and sunny. Best of all, hosts are allowed to stay overnight at Volunteer Canyon either the night before, or the night of your host day. Birding in Volunteer Canyon is wonderful, and it is not open to the public. This is an amazing opportunity.

The dates we have been assigned are:
3/27, 3/28, 5/1(taken), 5/2, 5/15, 5/16, 6/19, 6/20 (Father's Day), 7/10

If you can host on any of those days, please let me know as soon as possible. If you would like to host on a different day, let me know also. This year, we are going to fill any remaining open dates on a first-request basis. So if our assigned dates aren't good for your schedule, don't despair! We can probably accommodate you.

Contact Laurie Graham, 650-589-2133, fair80@comcast.net.
For other volunteer opportunities, please visit http://www.egret.org/volunteer_opps.html.

Snowy Plover Habitat Restoration

The fourth Sunday of each month Clark Natwick of Pacifica has been restoring Snowy Plover habitat at Pacifica State Beach (Linda Mar). Sometimes he works alone when there are no others, sometimes there are a dozen. The work mostly involves pulling out non-native ice plant, putting it in wheelbarrows and taking it to the side of Highway 1 where the State Parks crew pick it up. The work may also involve planting native vegetation.

Meet at the statue in the Community Center parking lot on Highway 1 just across the highway from the beach in the southern part of Pacifica at 10 AM and work for 1-2 hours.

For more information contact Bill Collins.
Email: 94116bc@gmail.com Phone: 650-359-3619

 Field Trip Chairperson

This position involves planning field trips and sending write-ups to the Program Coordinator for publication in the newsletter and website.

For more information contact Sue Cossins:
Email: sassue@earthlink.net Phone: 650-347-9358

Hospitality Co-chairperson at Our Monthly Meetings

Help to greet visitors and new members and assist with refreshments at our monthly general meetings. We meet on the second Thursday evening of every month, September through June. Approximately three hours a month: 6:00 – 9:00 PM at the San Mateo Garden Center

For more information contact Eileen Kay
Email: ek792@aol.com Phone: 650-592-4626

Friends of Bayfront Park, Menlo Park

Friends of Bayfront Park offers monthly “bird mornings” at the park, from 9-11 AM on the second Saturday of each month. Besides the usual bird books, and the park list, we bring Kaufmann’s Las Aves de Norteamerica as many park visitors are not primary English speakers. If you have friends who live nearby and who aren’t “real birders” but who’d like to see birds through a scope or learn a little more about them, please invite them to drop by. Families welcome, too. Meet along the entrance road by the tidal pond.

Volunteers needed to help on February 13th and March 13th (and throughout the year)

Contact Chris MacIntosh: cmaci@sbcglobal.net. Phone: 650-325-7841.

Come and bird our hilly corner of the bay and see what you can find!