San Francisco Bay Osprey Days

Another tremendous 0sprey photo posted after last evenings photo shoot by Lee Ann Tompkins Baker on the Carquinez Strait. Take a closer look. Double fi**ed fishing!! Our 12th Annual San Francisco Bay Osprey Days starts tomorrow morning Friday, June 21 with a guided San Francisco Bay Osprey Days walk by Myrna Hayes at the Mare Island Shoreline Heritage Preserve at 10:30am-11:30am. Meet at the parking lot 167 O‘Hara Ct @ Azuar Dr southern end of Mare Island. Call/text Myrna 707-656-7852.

Oh my goodness. Thank you Writer Thomas Gase and Photographer Chris Riley for such an engaging article about our San Francisco Bay Osprey Days.

Osprey Days coming to Vallejo this weekend Bird lovers’ hearts will soar this weekend as the 12th annual San Francisco Bay Osprey Days returns to Vallejo and Mare Island. The event will once again be filled with free public events, gu…

Dear San Francisco Bay Osprey Days fans and friends: Here’s an UPDATE to inform you about two items that you may have questions and concerns about for this weekend’s Osprey event.

First, the location for the Saturday, June 22, 2024 midday science presentation by Tony Brake IS confirmed.

Saturday, June 22, 11:15am-12:30pm
Presentation with Tony Brake, Bay Area Osprey Monitoring Director since 2012, “Rapidly Expanded Osprey Population Around San Francisco Bay: Ongoing Conservation Issues”

We are so happy that our Saturday Presentation ONLY will be In-Person and given at the Mare Island Ferry Maintenance Facility (1050 Nimitz Ave, 94592) Conference Room. That is a beautifully restored brick building on the Mare Island waterfront at the WETA Ferry dock. Call/text Myrna 707-656-7852 for questions or you get lost.

We will Facebook Live that Saturday session and repost it on San Francisco Bay Osprey Days Sunday, June 23 11:30am-12:30pm

Join longtime volunteer Bay Osprey Monitoring Director, Tony Brake for a science-based presentation in person, and Facebook Live video presentation. Tony's Osprey talk features data from the 2023 nesting season and the 2024 year so far and is packed with info. about the nesting osprey population in San Francisco Bay which has grow and expanded southward over the last decade, with 56 active nests in 2023 and 2024 between Vallejo and the South Bay. Because almost all of the nests on the Bay are on human-made structures, we know there have been numerous cases of nest removal and disturbance. Nesting on problematic structures is easily solved by the installation of alternative artificial nest structures, accomplished for about ten nesting pairs by 2022. Continued education of wildlife agencies, biology consulting firms and property managers about this approach will allow this iconic species to continue to expand and thrive in San Francisco Bay. (View again and share. Will be Posted on San Francisco Bay Osprey Days page)

Second, I just spoke with the Mare Island Causeway Bridge Tender. He told me that some parts have arrived, but that the bridge lift is not repaired. There is some expectation that it "may be repaired by the end of the week.” Regardless of whether it is fixed or not, in conversation with the operators of the River Dolphin, Dolphin Charters, we WILL conduct all four boat tours scheduled on the Mare Island Strait/Napa River.

Saturday and Sunday, June 22 and 23, 2024, 9am-11am and 1pm-3pm each day River Dolphin will depart the Vallejo Marina to get up close views of Osprey flying, fledging, fishing and feeding in and nearby nests they occupy on Mare Island and on the Vallejo side of the channel. Cost is $45 per person. Reservations can be made by calling 510-527-9622. Full schedule at our San Francisco Bay Osprey Days page. Thank you Lee Ann Tompkins Baker for this recent photo of fishing Osprey in the Carquinez Strait.

San Francisco Bay Osprey Days is happy that our Saturday Presentation ONLY will be In-Person and given at the Mare Island Ferry Maintenance Facility (1050 Nimitz Ave, 94592) Conference Room. We will Facebook Live that Saturday session and repost it on San Francisco Bay Osprey Days Sunday, June 23 11:30am-12:30pm. Here are Jpeg(basically photos, so you can download and enlarge) files of the Final version of the entire Schedule for Fri, Jun 21, Sat, June 22 and Sun, Jun 23, 2024 event. Questions: text/call Myrna at 707-656-7852. Boat trip reservation Sat and Sun call 510-527-9622.

Here’s our 2024 San Francisco Bay Osprey Days schedule. Some say they can’t enlarge or read these JPEG files. First off, they are JPEG which means they are a photo. Save as a photo. Enlarge like a photo. Send me an email: [email protected] and I will send you a pdf.
Again, these are basically photos, so save and print or send to your phone or computer. Please DO SHARE!
Many thanks to our great guides Marcia Grefsrud, Gordon McMahon, Tony Brake, Liz King, Myrna Hayes
and Dolphincharters.com. And, Bay Area Osprey Nest Monitoring Director, Tony Brake! Let’s also thank our photographers. Karen Grobner Bill George Lee Ann Tompkins Baker Chris Riley Chris Jerbic Myrna Hayes To donate: visit https://gofund.me/116dc083

For those of you who really want to show your support for our San Francisco Bay Osprey Days, here’s the GoFundMe link: https://gofund.me/26ef0f83

Thank you for your amazing support of our equally incredible phenomenon. Osprey nesting in San Francisco Bay is a pretty new thing. We can’t find any records that show them nesting here in the 20th or 21st century or in the Native American sacred shell mounds. We feel so very honored to have been chosen as a thriving nesting site for Osprey. Your donation helps us observe, document, protect and defend them, as well as host educational events like this year’s Osprey celebration! Thank you for your contribution. You are the BEST! Osprey Lover. Myrna Hayes, text/call 707-656-7852; email: [email protected]

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I was out to the Mare Island Shoreline Heritage Preserve the last few days and certainly out and about on Mare Island always on the lookout and listening for Osprey. They are especially on my mind as I wrap up the schedule for San Francisco Bay Osprey Days coming up in a little less than 3 weeks. Yes. Yes. The FB site was stuck with a glitch that wasn’t letting me update it. Here’s the most important thing. Pick a day and time for one of our 4 boat trips Sat and Sun Jun 22 and 23, 9am-11am and 1:00-3:00pm both days. Call 510-527-9622 to reserve. To help out with the Osprey event, call text, PM me Myrna Hayes 707-656-7852.

A few photos from our 15th Annual Mother’s Day Cream Tea 2024 aboard River Dolphin. DolphinCharters.com
I want to thank Owner Operator Captain Ronn Patterson and his partner, Barbara Fitzgerald. We now have literally decades of boat trips together and now this gift of the use of their boat for Mothers Day Tea serving.

Mind blowing.

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UPDATE. Update. INVITE. OK, so listen up, friends. We have plenty of seats remaining on the Saturday, May 11, 2024 boat trip. Especially since it has been rescheduled from the morning due to, you guessed it…Vallejo Marina dredging issues. All good. We depart 1:00pm the Marina’s Guest Dock K(1st left off of Harbor Way. NOT by Zio Fredos.). we return at 3:30pm. $45 per person. Bring a lunch or snacks and refreshments if you wish. Reservation details are on the flier. For info PM Myrna Hayes text/call her at 707-656-7852.
P.s. this is the same boat, River Dolphin, on which we will hold Mothers Day Cream Tea the next day. The boat will stay at dock from 12noon to 4pm for a FREE, donations appreciated, no reservations required simple cream tea(scones, jam, cream and tea). Call, text Myrna 707-656-7852. PM Hayes for info, to donate beforehand, or volunteer.