About Fiona: Naturalist and Nature Journaler 

​​GALLERY OF JOURNAL PAGES
See examples from the more than 2,000 nature journal pages that Fiona has created since she began journaling in 2016. Fiona is also an Artist who especially enjoys drawing birds.

Learn More About Fiona (click to jump to that section on this page):

• BIRDING & CONSERVATION
• PUBLICATIONS
• TALKS & TEACHING
• PUBLISHED JOURNAL PAGES
• ​MEDIA & INTERVIEWS

ABOUT FIONA
Born and raised in Northern California, Fiona, age 18, is an avid birder, nature journaler, artist, naturalist, writer, actor, musician, and advocate for nature. A six-time recipient of the Central Valley Bird Club Youth Scholarship, she volunteers her time with research and conservation including bird surveys, nest box monitoring, bird banding, and bird walks. She has published essays in Birding magazine (the national magazine of the American Birding Association), on the Children & Nature Network's Finding Nature News Blog, on NatureJournalingWeek.com, and elsewhere. She has taught classes and given talks for many organizations, including the Exploratorium in San Francisco, Environment for the Americas/World Migratory Bird Day, the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory, Richardson Bay Audubon, the Point Reyes Birding Festival, and the Central Valley Bird Symposium. 

Fiona spends time daily in the wild lands near her home. She loves to look for mysteries in nature and explore them in the pages of her nature journal. Fiona has attended Waldorf schools since age 3, where she enjoys an education rich in music, storytelling, drama, science, literature, history, and the visual arts. 

​Fiona also loves to create art, draw, paint, craft, act (see her acting resume here), sing, harmonize, play cello, compose music, write stories, and speak German.

QUOTES ABOUT FIONA
"Fiona is the most curious person that I have met in all of my adventures. She has helped me up my personal level of curiosity with the world.” --John Muir Laws, artist, scientist, educator, and author of the Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling

"On one of those field trips, I met someone who showed me how to regain my childhood sense of wonder. Her name is Fiona Gillogly, and she was thirteen at the time. A page from her journal is within this book and shows how our noticing infinite variations in nature enlarges our view of life. On field trips, I noticed that she was excited about everything—and not just the beautiful birds we all saw. She turned over the undersides of ferns as we walked into a woodland forest. She crouched down to show me a clump of California manroot and traced how far the vines extended and coiled around other plants. When making such discoveries in the field, she crammed her pages with questions about mysteries that lead to more mysteries, unmindful that her sentences are never formed in blocks of straight lines, left to right. Her observations flow continuously, curving upward or downward, as if to avoid interrupting her train of thought. John Muir Laws has been her mentor, and although I am now sixty-seven and she is now sixteen, she has become one of mine. " --Bestselling author Amy Tan, from the foreword to How to Teach Nature Journaling by John Muir Laws and Emilie Lygren (Heyday, 2020)
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Thank you note from a 2021 birding trip participant:
"We (four adults and two teens) had a delightful time on our birding walk with Fiona!  She communicated the amazing breadth and depth of her knowledge in a manner that was accessible to us (we have no formal bird watching experience). Her ability to recognize and mimic bird calls in order to facilitate sighting local species was particularly impressive. We also appreciated her engaging 'wild flower moments' and enthusiasm for nature journaling.  We highly recommend taking a birding walk with her."
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