ABOUT US
Educating, sharing adventures,
and having fun in nature
ABOUT US
Educating, sharing adventures, and having fun in nature
Helping People Enjoy Wild Birds Since 1995
For 30 years, the Los Gatos Birdwatcher has helped Bay Area residents discover and enjoy the birds around them. We provide fresh birdseed, quality bird-feeding supplies, and expert guidance to help people create welcoming habitats for birds and other wildlife. Whether you’re a beginner filling your first feeder or an experienced birder, we’re here to help you connect with nature. Photo: Our team celebrating the Los Gatos Birdwatcher’s 30th Anniversary, Sept 2025
What We Do:
- Provide fresh, high-quality birdseed delivered weekly.
- Help customers select the right feeders, bird houses, bird baths, optics, and accessories.
- Offer expert advice on supporting local birds and maintaining healthy backyard habitats.
- Host bird walks, workshops, presentations, and nature-focused events.
- Promote bird-friendly, wildlife-friendly, and healthy backyard habitats.
- Inspire appreciation for birds and the natural world.
Our mission is to educate, share adventures, and have fun through experiencing birds and nature.
Helping People Enjoy Wild Birds Since 1995
The Los Gatos Birdwatcher celebrates 30 years of service to our Bay Area customers, providing nature lovers with high-quality wild bird seed, supplies, optics, and unique nature-themed gifts. We attribute our long term success in the Los Gatos community to our loyal customers. Photo: Our team celebrating the Los Gatos Birdwatcher’s 30th Anniversary –Sept. 2025
What We Do:
- Provide products and services for wild bird watching and maintaining healthy backyard birdwatching habitats.
- High-quality fresh birdseed for our local wild birds is delivered every week.
- We help educate our customers on how to maintain their healthy backyard birding environments.
- We assist customers with bird food, feeders, houses, baths, optics, and whatever is needed to enjoy birds in the wild.
- Our mission is to educate, share adventures, and have fun through experiencing birds and nature.
Meet the Owner
The Los Gatos Birdwatcher store owner Lisa Myers is a South Bay Area native and has been watching birds since she was a teen. Lisa uses her degree in Communications combined with her roots in small business and passion for birds and birding to excite customers about the world of birds. It started in 2008 when Lisa, the founder of Let’s Go Birding partnered with the Los Gatos Birdwatcher to create monthly bird classes and birding tours.
Then in 2015, on the store’s 20th anniversary, Lisa became the new owner of the Los Gatos Birdwatcher allowing founders, Freddy and John Howell to retire. Both Lisa & Freddy understood that for those new to birding, it can be intimidating. They wanted to provide an atmosphere where everyone felt welcome. Pairing backyard bird feeding with birding adventures paved the way for Let’s Go Birding to become the tour division of the Los Gatos Birdwatcher.
Lisa served five years on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory (SFBBO), and for decades taught adult birding classes for Santa Clara Valley Audubon, the Palo Alto Adult School, the Campbell Recreation Dept. and Foothill College. She also enjoys introducing people to both local and national organizations whose mission is to help birds and preserve their habitat. Lisa gained much experience working for Cheesemans’ Ecology Safaris and the Environmental Volunteers and was also one of the few women on the Nikon ProStaff. Lisa has led tours throughout the Bay Area and into California’s Central Valley, Mono Lake, Big Sur, Point Reyes, Yuba Pass, and beyond into Yellowstone, Costa Rica, Belize, and Panama. Lisa’s goal is to design fun, friendly tours and a curriculum for folks eager to learn about birds.
In addition to birding, Lisa stays busy keeping the store shelves filled with all the items customers need to feed birds in their backyards. For those of you who do not feed birds, Lisa hopes you will drop by the store to do some shopping for yourself or for a friend as new nature-themed items arrive every day.
Meet the Owner
The Los Gatos Birdwatcher store owner Lisa Myers is a South Bay Area native and has been watching birds since she was a teen. Lisa uses her degree in Communications combined with her roots in small business and passion for birds and birding to excite customers about the world of birds. It started in 2008 when Lisa, the founder of Let’s Go Birding partnered with the Los Gatos Birdwatcher to create monthly bird classes and birding tours.
Then in 2015, on the store’s 20th anniversary, Lisa became the new owner of the Los Gatos Birdwatcher allowing founders, Freddy and John Howell to retire. Both Lisa & Freddy understood that for those new to birding, it can be intimidating. They wanted to provide an atmosphere where everyone felt welcome. Pairing backyard bird feeding with birding adventures paved the way for Let’s Go Birding to become the tour division of the Los Gatos Birdwatcher.
Lisa served five years on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory (SFBBO), and for decades taught adult birding classes for Santa Clara Valley Audubon, the Palo Alto Adult School, the Campbell Recreation Dept. and Foothill College. She also enjoys introducing people to both local and national organizations whose mission is to help birds and preserve their habitat. Lisa gained much experience working for Cheesemans’ Ecology Safaris and the Environmental Volunteers and was also one of the few women on the Nikon ProStaff. Lisa has led tours throughout the Bay Area and into California’s Central Valley, Mono Lake, Big Sur, Point Reyes, Yuba Pass, and beyond into Yellowstone, Costa Rica, Belize, and Panama. Lisa’s goal is to design fun, friendly tours and a curriculum for folks eager to learn about birds.
In addition to birding, Lisa stays busy keeping the store shelves filled with all the items customers need to feed birds in their backyards. For those of you who do not feed birds, Lisa hopes you will drop by the store to do some shopping for yourself or for a friend as new nature-themed items arrive every day.
Interview with Lisa Myers
Thank you to all the talented photographers who contributed to our website!
Ellen Bateman: Bewick’s Wren on a Fence
Malcolm Bramwell: Great Horned Owl
Susan Dodd: Western Tanager
R.Henke: Left Bend Winery’s Western Bluebirds
Scott Hooper: Anna’s Hummingbirds in nest
Ray Kawakami: Western Bluebird eating mealworms
Patricia Lillich: Chestnut-backed Chickadee
on branch with berries
Ron Machado: Black-headed Grosbeaks, Anna’s
Hummingbird on branch, Coyote Creek Birdwatchers,
Chestnut-backed Chickadee at feeder.
Brooke Miller: American Goldfinch, Squirrels,
Red-breasted Nuthatch at Squirrel Buster
Gregory Milstein: Anna’s Hummingbird with water drops
Judy Rudolf: Bewick’s Wren at suet/mealworm feeder
Stega (LC Boros): Bullock’s & Hooded Orioles bathing
Nancy Turek: Red-breasted Sapsucker,
Common Merganser female
Tony Woo: Chestnut-backed Chickadee on binoculars, Hummingbird in sprinkler, Western Bluebird, Sandhill Cranes, White-tailed Kite, Moss Landing Sanderlings, Lawrence’s Goldfinch bathing in Joseph Grant Park, Birdwatchers on tour, Hooded Orioles at feeder
Joan Young: Bald Eagle
Ellen Bateman: Bewick’s Wren on a Fence
Malcolm Bramwell: Great Horned Owl
Susan Dodd: Western Tanager
R.Henke: Left Bend Winery’s Western Bluebirds
Scott Hooper: Anna’s Hummingbirds in nest
Ray Kawakami: Western Bluebird eating mealworms
Patricia Lillich: Chestnut-backed Chickadee on branch with berries
Ron Machado: Black-headed Grosbeaks, Anna’s Hummingbird
on branch, Coyote Creek Birdwatchers, Chestnut-backed Chickadee
at feeder.
Brooke Miller: American Goldfinch, Squirrels, Red-breasted Nuthatch at Squirrel Buster
Gregory Milstein: Anna’s Hummingbird with water drops
Judy Rudolf: Bewick’s Wren at suet/mealworm feeder
Stega (LC Boros): Bullock’s & Hooded Orioles bathing
Nancy Turek: Red-breasted Sapsucker, Common Merganser female
Tony Woo: Chestnut-backed Chickadee on binoculars, Hummingbird in sprinkler, Western Bluebird, Sandhill Cranes, White-tailed Kite, Moss Landing Sanderlings, Lawrence’s Goldfinch bathing in Joseph Grant Park, Birdwatchers on tour, Hooded Orioles at feeder
Joan Young: Bald Eagle