Please join Committee for Green Foothills on a special wintertime bird watching trip at North Wavecrest - a coastal bluff in Half Moon Bay that supports greater diversity and numbers of individual raptors than any other site in San Mateo County.

Our trip will be led by wildlife ecologist and environmental consultant Gary Deghi, former Half Moon Bay City Councilman and member of the Board of Directors of Sequoia Audubon Society. Gary will be accompanied by CGF Legislative Advocate Lennie Roberts, who's worked for years to protect this and other coastal open space.

We will hope to see red-tailed and red-shouldered hawks, northern harriers, white-tailed kites and American kestrels. At dusk, we'll make a special effort to look for short-eared owls, a species of special concern, which winter here every year. The Sequoia Audubon Society considers North Wavecrest to be the most important habitat for wintering raptors in San Mateo County.

CGF and others continue to defend this unique raptor habitat against development, most recently against the newly proposed Wavecrest Village.

Dress in layers, and bring water and binoculars. It will likely be wet - please wear waterproof shoes or boots. This hike is on rain or shine.

Space on the hike is limited and reservations are required. RSVP no later than Wednesday, January 19 with the CGF office at (650) 968-7243 or Hike@GreenFoothills.org.

Directions: From the intersection of Highways 92 and 1, head south on Hwy 1. In about 2 miles, turn right (west) on Wavecrest Road. We'll meet at the ball fields at the end of Wavecrest Road at 3pm.