Anne will share her birding adventures in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, from the coast to the eastern mountains and every place in between. During this trip, Anne saw her 500th life bird—a Golden-crowned Sparrow. Other highlights included Long-billed Curlew, Heermann's Gull, White-tailed Kite, and Pacific-slope Flycatcher. Anne grew up in Vermont and has lived in Maryland since 1989. She started birding in 2015 after finding a Red-shouldered Hawk in her neighborhood. She currently works as an executive assistant for a company in Georgetown.