Join us for an inspiring author talk celebrating In the Shadow of the Bridge: Birds of the Bay Area, featuring stunning photography by Dick Evans and prose by award-winning writer Hannah Hindley. From the Golden Gate to the 4,000-mile Pacific Flyway, explore the extraordinary migratory journeys of birds that connect the Bay Area to habitats across the continent. Created with deep love for birds and the natural world, this beautiful book celebrates the species we share our region with and the vital places they depend on.

Whether you're a devoted birder, nature lover, photographer or simply love birds, come be inspired by their incredible journeys. All proceeds from book sales benefit Petaluma conservation organization, Point Blue.

Dick Evans became interested in photography as a graduate student at Stanford University and continued his practice throughout a 47-year career in the global metals industry that took him all over the world. San Francisco always remained home base, 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 is the author of In the Shadow of the Bridge: Birds of the Bay Area with author and photographer Dick Evans. She also writes about small creatures, big landscapes and the scientists who love them.

For questions, please contact Tamara Thiel Prizant at [email protected].