Join Dick Evans and Hannah Hindley, photographer and writer, respectively, of the book In the Shadow of the Bridge: Birds of the Bay Area, and Jack Dumbacher, PhD, the Academy’s Curator of Ornithology and Mammalogy, for birding at Great Blue Heron Lake. Bring your binos, and keep your eyes peeled for the park’s feathered residents. 

Please note that this activity will require standing and walking over uneven surfaces for up to an hour. 

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Dick Evans became interested in photography as a graduate student at Stanford University and continued his practice throughout a forty-seven-year career in the global metals industry that took him all over the world. San Francisco always remained home base, though, and he now lives in the city with his wife, Gretchen. Evans is the author or coauthor of the photography books San Francisco and the Bay Area: The Haight-Ashbury Edition, The Mission, and San Francisco’s Chinatown.

Hannah Hindley is a wilderness guide and the recipient of the Thomas Wood Award in Journalism, the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, and the Barry Lopez Prize in Nonfiction. She graduated from Harvard with degrees in English and evolutionary biology; she holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from University of Arizona. Her environmental essays can be found in Bay Nature, The Sun, Hakai, and more. Hannah writes about small creatures, big landscapes, and the scientists who love them.