Dear Birders, For reasons of reconstruction, the Willow Slough Trail at the Cosumnes River Preserve in southern Sacramento County is closed until August 10. ...
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Brian Williams
bwcal@...
Aug 5, 1999 4:53 pm
Thanks to a feisty mockingbird, I saw my first Hooded Oriole in Yolo County. I first heard an unfamiliar squeaky chatter, then saw a flash of yellow being...
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yellowhammer74@...
Aug 5, 1999 6:02 pm
Hello Birders, Today on Brewer Road I found a Lesser Yellowlegs and a Short-billed Dowitcher. Both birds were in some newly flooded fields along Brewer Road...
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Steve Abbott
skua@...
Aug 6, 1999 3:43 pm
- RBA * California * Central Valley Bird Box * 8/06/99 * CACV9908.06> ... - Birds mentioned Great-tailed Grackle (Sacramento) - Transcript hotline: Central...
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Mike Feighner
pac_loon@...
Aug 7, 1999 11:54 am
Central Valley Birders: Last week-end 7-31/8-1-99 I birded various counties, not just the ones I list here. The pond I mention below in San Joaquin County did...
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dstoebel@...
Aug 11, 1999 4:40 am
Hi all- The northeast pond at the Davis Sewage Ponds is low now, exposing mudflats, which supported a wide varitey of shorebirds today. A solitary sandpiper...
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Steve Abbott
skua@...
Aug 11, 1999 5:54 am
- RBA * California * Central Valley Bird Box * 8/10/99 * CACV9908.10 - Birds mentioned SOLITARY SANDPIPER (Yolo) Black Swift (Fresno) - Transcript hotline:...
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Alison Sheehey
alison1@...
Aug 11, 1999 9:13 am
The date of the previously mentioned scoping meeting for expansion of the Kern National Wildlife Refuge has been changed from August 17 to August 31. Due to a...
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David Yee
dyee@...
Aug 11, 1999 9:15 pm
CV Birders: Attached is a brief report of the Central Valley Bird Club/Yolo Audubon field trip to some wetlands in the Yolo area this past Sunday. A great day...
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John and Glennah Troc...
gtrochet@...
Aug 13, 1999 12:37 am
Dear Folks, I need to reschedule the Tall Forest bird survey for this month. It was previously planned for the morning of Saturday the 21st. I must advance...
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Daniel Stoebel
dstoebel@...
Aug 13, 1999 11:56 pm
Hi Birders- Two juv. short-billed dowitchers were at the northeast pond today at the Davis oxidation ponds. At the Wood Duck Ponds along South River Road (also...
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Bruce E. Webb
BruWebb@...
Aug 14, 1999 2:50 am
Last weekend, at the CVBC outing, Dave Feliz took the group out to a great shorebird pond just north of parking lot F on the Yolo Basin Wildlife Area. This...
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edsonl@...
Aug 14, 1999 7:49 pm
This morning, passerine migrants were present in near expected numbers at the wood duck ponds (south of West Sacramento). Five species of warblers were...
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David Yee
dyee@...
Aug 14, 1999 9:24 pm
Yesterday, Aug 13, my wife and I had our first big influx of Selasphorus sp hummers at our feeders near Lodi, as up to five showed up where none had been...
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John and Glennah Troc...
gtrochet@...
Aug 14, 1999 9:39 pm
Hi Birders, This morning I helped on the Willow Slough bird survey at the Cosumnes River Preserve. Like Leo and David, we had fair numbers of migrants. Most...
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Steve Abbott
skua@...
Aug 18, 1999 2:19 pm
- RBA * California * Central Valley Bird Box * 8/18/99 * CACV9908.18 - Birds mentioned White-faced Ibis (Yolo) SOLITARY SANDPIPER (Alpine, Yolo) Baird's...
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Sgloverccc@...
Aug 18, 1999 10:40 pm
Hello everyone, Today I birded the Modesto Sewage Ponds from 11 am to about 1 pm. I was disappointed to find the pond previously advertised as being drawn...
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Robert Traverso
italiano@...
Aug 19, 1999 1:16 am
At 1800, Wed., 8/18/99, In the alfalfa field in the northeast quadrant of Yolo Co.Rds.30 & 105, there are several hundred hawks (Red-tailed, Swainson's,...
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Steve Hampton
SHAMPTON@...
Aug 19, 1999 6:58 pm
I'll add that a few days ago there were over 200 White-faced Ibises feeding in a cut alfalfa field along Rd 29 near F St north of Davis, along with many crows,...
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waldo r holt
waldoh@...
Aug 19, 1999 10:47 pm
Birders, I observed that the youngest of three red-tailed hawk chicks was fledged on August 18, 1999. This is an extremely late fledging date for this part of...
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Brian Williams
bwcal@...
Aug 20, 1999 1:05 am
My experience is the same as Waldo's. I certainly am curious to know how frequently this late re-nesting (again, presumably) happens. ...
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Sgloverccc@...
Aug 20, 1999 2:44 pm
Waldo and all, This spring I saw three pairs of Red-tailed Hawks constructing nests between the dates of 5/3 and 5/5 which is very late for this species. My...
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Ylightfoot@...
Aug 21, 1999 6:10 pm
Hi Folks: You may have read in the newspapers or heard elsewhere about the recent discovery of an Australian insect (family Psyllidae) that infests eucalyptus ...
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Ylightfoot@...
Aug 21, 1999 6:35 pm
Hi Folks: In reference to my last posting, apparently birds may not be attracted primarily (if at all?) to the psyllid itself, but may be eating the sugary ...
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Mike Feighner
pac_loon@...
Aug 22, 1999 12:57 am
Tim and Central Valley Birders: I have noticed these strange insects on my eucalyptus trees here in my yard here in Livermore about a month ago just before I...
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Ylightfoot@...
Aug 23, 1999 5:14 am
Hi Folks: Additions to the list of bird species seen feeding on lerps and/or the bugs they cover on eucalypts in my neighborhood today (8/22) were House Finch,...
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Steve Hampton
SHAMPTON@...
Aug 23, 1999 5:21 pm
August 23, 1999 The FRANKLIN'S GULL is still around. Joan Humphrey saw it Friday evening coming in to roost at the Davis Wetlands. It presumably spends the...
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David Yee
dyee@...
Aug 24, 1999 5:25 pm
CV Birders: I just received the following from Rob Hansen down in Visalia. I took a quick bird walk around Lodi Lake in San Joaquin County this morning and ...
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David Yee
dyee@...
Aug 24, 1999 8:17 pm
Birder: I forgot to mention some of the other great birds Rob and his crew have seen in the S SJ Valley over the summer: a Golden-Plover in July, a Ruff about...
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Steve Abbott
skua@...
Aug 25, 1999 5:57 am
- RBA * California * Central Valley Bird Box * 8/24/99 * CACV9908.24 - Birds mentioned Green Heron (Amador) Wood Duck (Amador) SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER...
