From soaring Golden Eagles, effortlessly gliding California Condors, cheeky Bushtits, colorful Townsend’s Warblers, scampering Snowy Plovers, to thousands of Sooty Shearwaters streaming along the ocean’s surface - few places can match the diversity of species as the Monterey Bay region.
September marks the peak of fall migration with wintering shorebirds arriving en-masse. Warblers and other passerines are doing the same and we even start seeing the first appearances of wintering shorebirds ducks and other waterfowl. Meanwhile, just a few miles offshore, jaegers, shearwaters, and alcid are present in good numbers. There is no better time to visit the Monterey Bay to see the greatest number of species or to find a rarity.
