In the Shadow of the Bridge: Birds of the Bay Area 

Dick Evans and Hannah Hindley

Mount Diablo Bird Alliance will meet Thursday, March 5 in the Camellia Room at the Gardens at Heather Farm, 1540 Marchbanks Drive, Walnut Creek, CA 94598.

 
Join photographer Dick Evans and essayist Hannah Hindley for a lively talk inspired by their new book, In the Shadow of the Bridge: Birds of the Bay Area (Heyday Books, 2025). Blending striking photography with beautiful storytelling, they’ll share the creative journey behind the book, highlight regional conservation stories, and offer tips on bird photography as well as resources for more deeply knowing and protecting our local avian world. Proceeds from the book will benefit Point Blue Conservation Science, whose scientists guided Dick and Hannah into the world of birds and will join them onstage for this presentation. This talk invites readers, birders, and nature lovers to discover the human and natural forces that make this region one of the richest places on the continent for birdwatching.
 
Dick Evans became interested in photography as a graduate student at Stanford University and continued his practice throughout a forty-seven-year career in the global metals industry that took him all over the world. San Francisco always remained home base, though, and he now lives in the city with his wife, Gretchen. Evans is the author or coauthor of the photography books San Francisco and the Bay Area: The Haight-Ashbury Edition, The Mission, and San Francisco’s Chinatown.
 
Hannah Hindley is a wilderness guide and the recipient of the Thomas Wood Award in Journalism, the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, and the Barry Lopez Prize in Nonfiction. She graduated from Harvard with degrees in English and evolutionary biology; she holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from University of Arizona. Her environmental essays can be found in Bay Nature, The Sun, Hakai, and more. Hannah writes about small creatures, big landscapes, and the scientists who love them.