Mount Diablo Bird Alliance will meet Thursday, September 5, in the Camellia Room at the Gardens at Heather Farm.

6:30 PM Doors Open
7:00 PM Announcements
7:15 PM Refreshments and Raffle
7:30 PM Main Program: Birds of Canada and North American Wood Warblers
*as a conservation organization we encourage you to bring your own mug for coffee or tea

7:30 PM Main Program: Birds of Canada and North American Wood Warblers
Norman Kikuchi, MD

Norman Kikuchi will present photos taken from a few of his favorite locations in Canada. In a small town named Elliston, there is a lesser known breeding colony of Atlantic Puffins, that are sometimes known to nibble on visitors’ shoelaces!

We will also learn about New World Wood Warblers (Parulidae) taken from migration hotspots and breeding locations in the US and Canada. Warbler addiction among birders is a common condition from which happily there seems to be no cure.

Norman’s childhood interest in birds began while stalking Ring-necked Pheasants in the Mt Diablo foothills, however witnessing the impalement of a Western Fence lizard by a Loggerhead Shrike on a Joshua tree spine was his real bird epiphany. He was transfixed by the moment!

Norman graduated from UC Davis in Zoology with a minor in herpetology. He received my MD family practice specialty at UC Irvine. In 1997 he acquired the super telephoto Canon lenses and switched to avian photography. His current ultimate goal is photographing all the breeding birds in the US and Canada.