Folks, This Friday (tomorrow) we'll have another weekday morning tour at the Bufferlands, begining at 7:00 am. The format will be along the lines of the bird...
Free Program on Hawks October 22 South Natomas Community Center Swainson’s Hawks change from tiny white chicks to juvenile migrants in a few short months....
Pretty birdy this morning in "Hampton's patch" in N. Davis. Bushtits kept up a steady ringing din that both helped and hindered efforts at picking out other...
eBird is reporting: "1 Blackpoll Warbler was observed at Putah Creek--Pedrick Rd., Yolo County on 1 OCTOBER, 2009 by Maureen Geiger. " Could be the same bird...
Folks, As might be expected, things have really changed over the past couple weeks. Numbers of White-crowned and Lincoln Sparrows are way up, though I still...
Folks, I apologize for the duplicative nature of this note, but nobody has yet reported several very common species for Sacramento County last weekend. In ...
Hi All, I am visiting my brother-in-law in Escalon (San Joaquin Co) and we had an amazing event yesterday evening (Oct 2). Between 50-60 Swainson's Hawks have...
Retired, but worked five out of seven, days I decided to be lazy . Without really going outside I observed a flock of Cedarwaxwings, Orange crownded warbler,...
A fairly large group of Snow Geese flew over my home at 9:57 this morning, heading in a southwestern direction. There were about 110 to 120 individuals. Good...
Hi gang, Just had a phone call from Dan Kopp who has a CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER in the same location as his Palm Warbler last year. Unfortunately, I cannot give...
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Hey all, I was able to refind the bird this evening around 6 P.M. after about thirty minutes of looking; it was in and around the same tree I last saw it in...
HI Everyone, Our team of seven set out on our SFBBO Yolo Birdathon day at 8:00 and ended at 5:30. We ended up tallying 97 species visiting 5 different sites...
At 10:00 this morning I found a fall plumaged Bobolink along Putah Creek, west of Hopkins Road on the UC Davis campus. The bird was in riparian vegetation and...
Great find! Previous county records: 1. May 1989, Woodland area, found dead (specimen at UCD) 2. October 27, 1995, Solano Park Gardens, UC Davis Steve Hampton ...
Hi Birders, Today I made a short trip into foothills of Calaveras Co. Only shorebirds were Greater Yellowlegs and Killdeer with both at Wallace lake, Comanche...
Alison Kent, a friend of hers from the east and I saw 4 Lewis's Woodpeckers flying high over Putah Creek at the Pedrick Road Bridge this morning. They were...
Hi All, I seem to remember that back in the late 1970's this species was found from time to time along Putah Creek betwwen Winters and the Diversion Dam below...
I've several times seen Lewis's Woodpeckers around Davis in the fall (usually Sept, about every other year), suggesting it might be a good winter for them, but...
This morning I had a Lewis's Woodpecker at the Red Bluff Recreation Area, which is adjacent to the Sacramento River on the valley floor. But nowhere in Red...
We got 53 species in four hours of effort on the Sac Audubon trip to Discovery Park this morning. Highlights included excellent views of the recently returned...
Dear Birders, This morning John Schick led the River Walk bird survey at the Cosumnes River Preserve. If I have counted correctly, we turned up 102 species! ...
Hi birders, I got a late start this morning but still had a good late morning along the AR Parkway. I walked in at the entrance to the Gristmill area from...
Hi All, I found a Brewer's Sparrow associating with the Savannahs and White-crowneds at the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area this morning. It was located along the...
All, Today 10/10/09, Richard Jeffers, Mike Mammoser, Francis Toldi, and I did our annual fall Big Day in Merced County. After a depressing showing of only 121...
I've been monitoring a long-time Turkey Vulture Roost on the North side of Land Park in Sacramento off-and-on over the past few months. Numbers have been...
We've had numbers of Lewis's Woodpecker as high as 20 at Audubon Bobcat Ranch this year and in places we have not seen them before. Last year I spotted 2...
I had a flock of Snow Geese, of about 120 individuals, fly over at 7:40am. They were headed north. Good Birding, Kathryn Sanderson Olivehurst Yuba County...
This morning several flocks flew over but some were too high and too far away for positive ID. All flocks were heading north except one. Positive ID's include...
