Last year, on the third Sunday in December, I walked with four other birders along the path from Otis Street at the Bay Farm Island bridge to Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary, along the beach to Washington Park and finally to the Willow and Grand Street bridges over the lagoon, counting all the birds

After 30 years leading the birders counting birds on the island of Alameda for the Oakland Christmas Bird Count (CBC), in 2021 Leora Feeney turned that job over to another Alamedan, Doug Henderson.