<html><body><div dir="ltr">(Out of area, but I can’t help but celebrate something’s 100th birthday)<div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Santa Clara County Bird Alliance is celebrating its 100th birthday in October. Before moving to Washington a few years ago I put a lot of sweat equity into the organization, and I’m thrilled to see it thriving and celebrating itself next month. One of the things they did was solicit many of the photographers in the county for photos from the area to celebrate the birds seen there, and I’m glad to see a couple of mine have been included: <a href="https://www.smugmug.com/gallery/n-RGpzKZ">https://www.smugmug.com/gallery/n-RGpzKZ</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">If you’re one of those folks who visits down there for work or pleasure (this county is the core center of Silicon Valley, home to Apple, Google, Intel and many others) it’s an incredible birding area with a large group of really good birders and photographers and is an area that’s had a strong commitment to open space and bird habitats. It’s well worth a birding trip if you haven’t considered it (I wish I could have gotten down there next month, but couldn’t make the details work). (It also is the place where that one day wonder Dark-Sided Flycatcher was found and photographed recently.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Hope you enjoy the photos, and if you happen to be down in California in October, consider checking out some of the activities these folks have planned for the next month…</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Chuq </div><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(39,39,40);font-family:-apple-system,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">---------------------------------------<br><br>Chuq Von Rospach (<a href="http://www.chuq.me" target="_blank">http://www.chuq.me</a>)</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">Silverdale, Washington</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">Birder, Nature and Wildlife Photographer<br><br>Email me at: <a href="mailto:chuqvr@gmail.com" target="_blank">chuqvr@gmail.com</a><br>Mastodon: @<a href="mailto:chuqvr@fosstodon.org" target="_blank">chuqvr@fosstodon.org</a><br><br>Stay Updated with what I'm doing: <a href="https://www.chuq.me/6fps/" target="_blank">https://www.chuq.me/6fps/</a><br>My latest e-book: <a href="https://www.chuq.me/ebooks" target="_blank">https://www.chuq.me/ebooks</a><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>