The most dependable is the California Raptor Center, a wildlife hospital with a large collection of outdoor aviaries holding non-releasable birds of prey: Stop in for free time with more than a ...

"It was a happy surprise," said Dettling, who flew in from northern California to help. He knew they'd seen a lot of birds, and had heard anecdotally that others had seen large flocks from the water.

Residents of Marin, and the Bay Area at large, are understandably big fans of the diverse natural landscapes of the coast ranges: forests and woodlands, savannas and marshes, ocean coast and chapar… ...