Thursday, December 4, 2025
140 Kentucky St, Petaluma, CA 94952
Point Blue is featured in a new book!
Photographer Dick Evans and Author Hannah Hindley capture the rich birdlife of the San Francisco Bay Area in their new book In the Shadow of the Bridge: Birds of the Bay Area. The book captures not only the stunning beauty of resident and migratory birds, but also the stories they carry: tales of adaptation, survival, and deep interconnection with people and place. At once a work of art and a call to attention, proceeds from the book will benefit Point Blue whose scientists and educators guided Dick and Hannah into the world of birds and will appear with them in book talks around the Bay.
Dick Evans became interested in photography as a graduate student at Stanford University and continued his practice throughout a fifty-five-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 of the photography books San Francisco and the Bay Area: The Haight-Ashbury Edition, The Mission (an Indie Book Award Finalist), 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.
Melissa Pitkin, CEO, Point Blue Conservation Science
As CEO, Melissa leads organizational strategy, operations, and vision while supporting a collaborative, mission-driven team. With over 25 years at Point Blue, she previously launched the Education Program, served as Communications Director, and helped grow early career pathways in conservation. She holds an M.S. in Environmental Education from Southern Oregon University and a B.S. in Wildlife and Conservation Biology from UC Davis.