does any one know any good and reliable areas to find least terns; and what time of day? mihir (pleasanton)...
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Randel Rogers
randel_l_rogers
Jul 1, 2002 11:26 pm
I am from Columbus, OH, but spent the last 21 days training with my National Gaurd unit at Fort Irwin in San Bernadino Co. Highlights included: Barstow:...
1113
Steve Sosensky
stevesosensky
Jul 2, 2002 3:11 am
Calbirders, This thread is closed due to an illegal subject line. The message has been erased from the archives and the poster set to "Moderated". ... Good...
1114
Randel Rogers
randel_l_rogers
Jul 2, 2002 8:44 pm
A fellow poster dropped me a note that prairie dogs are not native to the FT Irwin area by several hundred miles, and what the local residents had called such...
1115
John Mariani
siskiyoubirder
Jul 3, 2002 7:03 pm
Howdy Calbirders,
Just got back from a weekend trip to Yosemite National Park and the Mono Basin with a group from Santa Clara Valley Adubon Society....
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Thomas Miko
thomasmiko@...
Jul 3, 2002 11:23 pm
Dear Alvaro, Please email me. Several of us have your old email address, which no longer works. Thomas Miko (Mikó Tamás) 2445 Oswego Street Pasadena, CA...
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Don DesJardin
birder_don
Jul 4, 2002 4:42 am
NOTE: This is not a commercial announcement. The organizers of this trip, Don Desjardin and Walter Wehtje will not make any money on this endeavor. We just...
1118
MiriamEagl@...
miriameaglemon
Jul 6, 2002 2:37 am
Hi, all! Just a quickie report today: spent most of the week camping up at Heart Bar with my friend Shirley, where there were LOTS of White-headed Woodpeckers,...
1119
mjbbirds@...
Jul 7, 2002 6:12 am
Dear Calbirders, I am hoping that you might be able to answer some specific questions that might help us determine why we are having a continuing bird and fish...
1120
snorkler@...
Jul 7, 2002 5:54 pm
Interesting questions. It looks to me that the common link is eating aquatic vegetation. The ducks and geese that died eat aquatic vegetation, while gadwall...
1121
snorkler@...
Jul 7, 2002 5:54 pm
A friend of mine is coming out from Georgia next weekend and has the following wish list of lifers. He hasn't included pelagic species, but almost any of...
1122
sramachandramurthi
sramachandra...
Jul 7, 2002 5:56 pm
Highlights from a trip to the Farallon Islands organized by the Oceanic Society in San Francisco: Birds: Heermann's Gull (5) Sooty Shearwater (hundreds) ...
1123
dawnhark
Jul 7, 2002 8:56 pm
Hi everyone, this is my first posting here. I hike a lot in the high Sierra, Tahoe and Alpine County areas mostly. I am not a birder, but I do look at and...
1124
dawnhark
Jul 7, 2002 8:56 pm
Dear Moderator--I belatedly read the instructions for posting here--my apologies for not providing a signature. Can you still post my question about...
1125
redhead457@...
lcorey95204
Jul 7, 2002 8:56 pm
The most likely cause would be a bacterial infection in warm water -- from a combination of overly heated water, bacteria from sewage, animal waste and ...
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Patrick McNulty
mcnulty-p@...
Jul 8, 2002 5:16 am
Dawn, I'm not sure about the small short tail, but take a look at a Common Nighthawk in a Field Guide to Birds and see if that looks familiar. Patrick Patrick...
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Bruce Deuel
bdeuel2
Jul 8, 2002 3:34 pm
The Department of Fish and Game has been plagued for years by die-offs of domestic ducks at parks where people feed them. The usual cause is duck viral...
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Charles Bragg
cgbragg
Jul 8, 2002 4:51 pm
... <snip> Anyone wanting to read about DVE can see our March 1994 newsletter at http://home.att.net/~cgbraggjr/v17n7.htm The duck symptoms are close to what...
1129
redhead457@...
lcorey95204
Jul 9, 2002 12:21 am
I agree with Patrick -- the Common Nighthawk is a likely "suspect." Linda Corey Stockton, CA [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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dawnhark
Jul 9, 2002 4:27 am
Yes! It is a Common Nighthawk! Many thanks to everyone who helped me with this, both on and off list. Dawn Harkins, South Lake Tahoe, CA USA PS: I saw it at...
1131
G. Mugele
mewgull
Jul 10, 2002 6:16 am
... Hi Darrell Lee, Your friend mentioned he was coming out from Brunswick to visit you this month. I was talking to him about birding locales in that area at...
1132
Martin Meyers
meyers_45
Jul 10, 2002 5:23 pm
I'm considering spending a few days in the Warner Mountains some time in the next few weeks. My main interest would be listening to the "Western" Flycatchers...
1133
Jennifer Matkin
afm969
Jul 10, 2002 9:57 pm
Hi Martin, For some information on WEFLs in the Warners you can search the Birdchat archives for some correspondence on the topic from several years ago. A ...
1134
Jennifer Matkin
afm969
Jul 10, 2002 10:10 pm
Hi Darrell, Sage Grouse can be relatively easy to see in Bodie (historic ghost town, turn off of 395 north of Mono Lake and south of Bridgeport, then 13 miles...
1135
Richard Carlson
rccarl
Jul 10, 2002 11:53 pm
Any ideas on where to see Mountain Quail now in Northern Cal? They're awfully quiet up here at Tahoe. Richard C. Carlson Full Time Birder, Biker & Rotary...
1136
pbowend
Jul 11, 2002 2:19 am
On 7/7/02 I saw 6 Mountain Quail (1 adult and 5 babies) on Forest Service Road 7N09 (off Highway 4) in Calaveras County. Penelope Bowen Calaveras Regional...
1137
Thomas Miko
thomasmiko@...
Jul 12, 2002 2:51 am
Hello! Has anybody seen Lawrence's Goldfinces near Big Morongo Preserve, Yucca Valley Golf Course, or the Big Bear area in the last 2 weeks??? Got a visitor...
1138
Don DesJardin
birder_don
Jul 12, 2002 3:50 pm
NOTE: This is not a commercial announcement. The organizers of this trip, Don Desjardin and Walter Wehtje will not make any money on this endeavor. We just...
1139
smldiomedea
Jul 13, 2002 8:23 pm
On July 4th near the summit of Hwy 108 in Mono County, I watched a male Rufous Hummingbird feeding on paintbrush. Seemed a little early for the southbound...
1140
Russell Scalf
rfs_berkeley
Jul 13, 2002 11:12 pm
... I was in the Greenhorn Mts above Lake Isabella last June, birding between 6000 and 6800 ft. Lots of Caropadacus finches, and to my surprise, all of them ...
