Central Valley Birders: This is old news by now. I will mention only the highlights. Marcel: please comment if I have messed up any of the locations or birds...
16
Mike Feighner
pac_loon@...
May 2, 1999 10:32 pm
Central Valley Birders: Yesterday (5-1-99), I birded Kings County. This was a non-big day (I spent over 6 hours alone birding Tar Canyon Road), but did get a...
17
Ylightfoot@...
May 2, 1999 11:34 pm
Hi Folks: The two male Lark Buntings present for some time along Phillips Road in southwestern Placer County were seen there today, 5/2, at about 2:30 pm. They...
18
Steve Abbott
lanius@...
May 3, 1999 1:45 am
- RBA * California * Central Valley Bird Box * 5/2/99 * CACV9905.02 - Birds mentioned Lesser Nighthawk (Sacramento) VEERY (Sacramento) **CBRC Review Species** ...
19
Gain, Jim
Gain.J@...
May 3, 1999 6:14 pm
Three years ago Stanislaus County had its first ever big year. We logged a total of 237 out of 284 species from our county list for a total of 84%. In the year...
20
Steve Hampton
SHAMPTON@...
May 3, 1999 7:57 pm
Sunday, May 2 Still lots of nice birds at the Trestle Ponds near Woodland. Ponds 2 and 3 (starting from the east) have good shorebird conditions; 4 is all mud...
21
Gain, Jim
Gain.J@...
May 5, 1999 4:39 pm
This morning I had a waxwing following behind a larger group (15) of waxwings and was giving a different call. I rushed inside and wrote down brzzzssssh with...
22
John and Glennah Troc...
gtrochet@...
May 5, 1999 9:53 pm
Dear Birders, Yesterday's message along these lines bounced, so I am trying again. I returned yesterday morning to "the Point" on the Willow Slough Trail in...
23
Steve Hampton
SHAMPTON@...
May 5, 1999 10:03 pm
John, Interesting note about he Western red-necked lookalike Sandpiper. The other day at YBWA I encountered, among many Westerns, one with exceptionally bright...
24
Wayland B. Augur
wba@...
May 6, 1999 10:02 am
It seems that late April was a popular time to do Big Days! A group consisting of Richard Redmond, Phil Johnson, Mike Skram, and myself (Skip Augur) chose that...
25
David Yee
dyee@...
May 7, 1999 2:12 am
Birders: Some recent highlights: in Merced CO, one of the best birds at the Central Valley Bird Club trip to San Luis NWR was a male Lawrence's Goldfinch on...
26
Steve Abbott
lanius@...
May 7, 1999 2:23 am
- RBA * California * Central Valley Bird Box * 5/6/99 * CACV9905.06 - Birds mentioned Blue-winged Teal (Placer) Short-billed Dowitcher (Placer) LITTLE GULL...
27
Gain, Jim
Gain.J@...
May 7, 1999 3:46 am
A student in my birding class just let me know that she had 17 Lark Buntings last Saturday in eastern Stanislaus County. She described them well in their ...
28
John Sterling
ani@...
May 7, 1999 2:10 pm
To follow up on David Yee's report of Lawrence's Goldfinches in Merced, on April 28 John Luther, Kent Van Vuren and I saw several in Merced County at the park...
29
David Yee
dyee@...
May 7, 1999 4:45 pm
John: Here in San Joaquin County, Lawrence's Goldfinch has nested on the valley floor only once in recent times; at Oak Grove Regional Park just n of Stockton...
30
TheMalls@...
May 7, 1999 7:26 pm
At least one male Lark Bunting still present and singing this morning near the Dog Kennel on Phillip Road. Also encountered a flock of some 200 Tricolored...
31
John and Glennah Troc...
gtrochet@...
May 7, 1999 7:47 pm
Dear Central Valley Birders, I am curious to know if others with the opportunity to get out this morning also found lots of birds to look at. I went to the...
32
Bruce Deuel
bdeuel@...
May 7, 1999 8:36 pm
Hi all, In response to John Trochet's question, I have seen a total of 1 Warbling Vireo, 2 Orange-crowned Warblers, 1 Yellow Warbler, 5 Yellow-rumped Warblers,...
33
David Yee
dyee@...
May 7, 1999 11:21 pm
... John and Bruce: I went out briefly this morning to Lodi Lake and had a good showing of migrants as well. It wasn't spectacular like on 30 Apr, but the...
34
Gain, Jim
Gain.J@...
May 10, 1999 4:43 pm
I went out Friday and checked on the Lark Buntings. I found the flock had
split into two groups. I found one flock of 10 birds (7 males, 3 females)
and another...
35
Steve Abbott
skua@...
May 11, 1999 8:52 pm
Hello all,
Today, 5/11/99, Bruce Webb and I birded bits of Placer County and found
the following highlights:
1 male BLUE GROSBEAK singing on Brewer Rd...
36
John and Glennah Troc...
gtrochet@...
May 11, 1999 9:39 pm
Dear Birders,
I returned this morning to the Tall Forest at the Cosumnes River
Preserve in southern Sacramento County. It was a pretty slow day. I
spoke...
37
Steve Hampton
SHAMPTON@...
May 11, 1999 10:55 pm
John, You mention you had an audible Least Bittern. Was it giving the Black-billed Cuckoo call or the raucous "shack-shack-shack-shack" call? Mitch...
38
David Yee
dyee@...
May 13, 1999 12:47 am
Steve Hampton wrote:
> > Yolo County birders have long suspected a resident roadrunner population
> in the hills around the Capay Valley, especially in the...
39
Gain, Jim
Gain.J@...
May 13, 1999 12:58 am
I don't have the dates with me, but I found a Roadrunner with about 6 to 8
chicks once at mile 4 in Del Puerto Cyn. This was back in the late 80's,
probably in...
40
Steve Hampton
SHAMPTON@...
May 12, 1999 6:13 pm
Yesterday was slow, but today, Wed, May 12, was full of birds. Just standing around my house waiting for my carpool, I had 3 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS
1...
41
Steve Hampton
SHAMPTON@...
May 12, 1999 10:18 pm
Yolo County birders have long suspected a resident roadrunner population in the hills around the Capay Valley, especially in the Capay Hills on the east side...
42
Steve Abbott
lanius@...
May 13, 1999 6:16 am
- RBA
* California
* Central Valley Bird Box
* 5/12/99
* CACV9905.12
- Birds mentioned
White-faced Ibis (Placer)
Hooded Merganser (Yolo)
Black Rail...
43
Sgloverccc@...
May 13, 1999 8:41 pm
Hello everyone,
Just a few things about roadrunners. While doing the Yolo Birdathon on 4/24 a guy in a pickup truck stopped to talk to us near the bottom of...
44
Bruce Deuel
bdeuel@...
May 14, 1999 7:12 pm
Roadrunners still occur on the west side of the valley in Tehama
County. I have knowledge of 4 sightings within the last 2 years, all by
members of my family,...
