I enjoyed a rather warm weekend on Clark Fork Road Friday-Sunday and found bird activity on the quiet side. Most interesting to me was to see Clark's...
We here on Nob Hill Circle, Groveland have two lonely birds!! One Robin who likes our small lawn and bathes in the birdbath regularly. A white crowned Sparrow...
I am planning to bird your great state next year and have a fairly small list of targets. They are: Tricolored Blackbird Northern Pygmy Owl Hermit Warbler ...
Hi, Saw our first White-crowned Sparrow of the season a couple days ago; also have at least one Black-headed Grosbeak --most of them have been gone for awhile....
Can anyone answer this for Jim Maddox? --Jean From: James P. Maddox [mailto:jpmaddox@...] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 9:58 AM To: Hackamack, Jean &...
I did not have room in the newsletter for this reminder announcement so have posted it. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ John Turner Newsletter Editor Central...
This morning at the Groveland Community Services Dist property on Ferretti Rd I saw the first of the season Golden-crowned Sparrow and Dark-eyed Junco. I saw...
Hi all, Interested in supporting great research about and for birds around the Bay by SFBBO? If so, I just teamed with 3 other local birders to scour Calaveras...
My neighbor up the street, Terri Metz, heard a strange owl call tonight about 8:45 and asked me to go out on my deck and listen to it. It was much closer to...
Waterfowl are starting to return to the pond on the Groveland Community Services District property on Ferretti Rd. This morning I saw the first Gadwall and...
Sorry for the late post-had computer problem. On our Saturday , October 18 field trip, we were on Rock River Road at the pond about 4 pm and we saw a large...
This morning at the Groveland Community Services District property at 18966 Ferretti Rd I saw the following birds between 8:15 and 9:45 AM. Jeanne Ridgley ...
CSAS has proposed a cooperative project with The Groveland Community Services District to develop trails and do citizen science on a large property off...
Was looking through the sparrows in the yard for a Golden-crowned but came up empty. However, there was one fine looking White-throated Sparrow in with the...
Peggy Macres and I spent the day birding Calaveras county extensively for the first time. And what a day we had - 73 species, with these highlights: Lakeside...
Jeanne Ridgley called me out to The Groveland Community Services District property off Ferretti Road to confirm a juvenile Snow Goose. Snow Goose is rare...
I just returned from meeting Jim and Sheri (sp?) Lomax at the GCSD property where he picked up #202 in the County - the Snow Goose. He reports that last year's...
Friday morning we had one Pine Siskin on our thistle feeder hassling the Lesser Goldfinches. I used FOS loosely as last year we never even saw one. I see...
This morning I was at the Groveland CSD property on Ferretti Rd from 8 -10 AM. About 8:30 I saw 30 Canada Geese fly in from the east and the Snow Goose was...
On Saturday evening, Nov. 15, I heard at least two Common Poorwills calling at dusk at the Brightman Campground in Stanislaus National Forest. The campground...
On Saturday, Nov. 29, nine people participated in Central Sierra Audubon's scheduled field trip down Rock River Road, a short bit of Crabtree Road to the Dry...
I went out scouting on Friday 12/5 in Sectors 6 (Priest-Coulterville Rd), Sector 10 (Penon Blanco Rd) and Sector 2 (Marshes Flat Rd). I was out from 11 AM till...
Got a call from Susan Thomas on Potato Ranch Rd. yesterday (12/2). She reported a small black and white bird that turned out to be an a partial albino Junco. I...
A local realtor told me he had seen the "white goose" last week. This morning Jeanne Ridgley while checking out the location found what we both think is a...
This morning I went out to do some birding and get some exercise before the storms arrive. It was cold. At Pine Mountain Lake Marina I quickly found the...
This morning at the Groveland CSD property on Ferretti Rd I saw one male Green-winged Teal on the big sewer pond swimming with some Mallards and three...
I received a call from Jeanne Ridgley Sunday morning that the juvenile Snow Goose and Aleutian Cackling Goose continue to be seen on Pine Mountain Lake. She...
Thanks to a tip from visiting birder Richard Jeffers, there is a Common Loon on Pine Mountain Lake. A beautiful male joins the Aleutian Cackling Goose and the...
This morning I made an early, quick run up to Pine Mountain Lake. Thanks to Bill Zachman, I was able to see the continuing CACKLING GOOSE, juvenile SNOW GOOSE...
Today (12-27) while birding during the Groveland CBC, three of us saw a Greater Roadrunner at Horseshoe Bend Campground at (what's left of) Lake McClure in...