Dear Birders, We held our annual Yolo Audubon Society fundraiser on Saturday, April 28th. Mary Schiedt and I teamed up and the highlights were as follows: ...
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Steve Hampton
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May 1, 2000 6:51 pm
I too did the birdathon, kayaking the East Toe Drain of the Yolo Bypass from Rd 16 (off Rd 117) south to the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area. Lots of Blue...
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YLIGHTFOOT@...
May 3, 2000 10:54 pm
Hi folks: Bruce Deuel, Bruce Webb, John Luther, and I had a fantastic time conducting a Big Day in Butte County on Monday, 1 May 2000. After spending part of...
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Steve Abbott
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May 5, 2000 2:01 pm
- RBA * California * Central Valley Bird Box * 5/5/00 * CACV0005.05 - Birds mentioned Common Loon (El Dorado) CATTLE EGRET (El Dorado) American Bittern (El...
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Mike Feighner
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May 5, 2000 2:16 pm
Central Valley Birders, County Listers: Yesterday, 5-4-2000, after work I headed up to the Sacramento Area to check on the Bank Swallows and Lesser Night-Hawk...
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Andy Engilis
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May 5, 2000 6:02 pm
I had my class out at Cosumnes from 7-9:30 am (song birds from Tall Forest, waterbirds from remnant wetlands and newly flooded rice) and these are the...
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YLIGHTFOOT@...
May 5, 2000 6:21 pm
CV birders: I've often wondered if mornings when I find migrants in my backyard correspond with a "larger picture," i.e., a major wave or landfall of migrants...
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Andrew Engilis, Jr.
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May 5, 2000 7:19 pm
Tim - Of note were numerous Tanagers, in the understory, overstory, etc. This day, and I have been out locally a great deal lately, was the most active this...
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John Luther
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May 7, 2000 12:08 pm
Saturday, May 6, I saw a Calliope Hummingbird at Bobelaine Audubon Sanctuary in Sutter Co. This seems to be the first documented record for the county. There...
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Andy Engilis
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May 8, 2000 4:34 pm
I led a field trip on Sunday May 7th and had one of my best outings ever on Cosumnes Preserve. The weather front had settled all the migrants and the trees...
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Steve Hampton
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May 8, 2000 5:59 pm
Cloudy/rainy days in May are great for stopping up migrants, so I encourage all birders to at least look in their backyards these days! Over the weekend, in...
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Robert Traverso
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May 8, 2000 8:11 pm
Birded along this bike path this morning and saw the following birds of interest: Hermit Warbler, Black-throated Gray Warbler, MacGillivary Warbler, Western...
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Robert Traverso
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May 8, 2000 8:12 pm
The location in my earlier to Yolo Co.(So.Fork Putah Creek Bike Path in Davis) should have been the North Fork Putah Creek Bike Path. :-) Robert Traverso ...
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John and Glennah Troc...
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May 8, 2000 9:54 pm
Dear Birders, I want to follow-up on Andy's and Steve's notes. When I lived in Baltimore and Houston, the adage was "if the weather is bad it's time to go...
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Steve Abbott
skua@...
May 10, 2000 5:29 am
- RBA * California * Central Valley Bird Box * 5/9/00 * CACV0005.09 - Birds mentioned Osprey (Sutter) SNOWY PLOVER (Placer) RUDDY TURNSTONE (Sacramento) ...
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Bruce Deuel
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May 10, 2000 8:31 pm
Shasta County's first Sanderling was found at noon today (the 10th) at the Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant ponds, just s. of the Redding city limits on SH...
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k1mize@...
May 12, 2000 1:44 am
All: The Wandering Tattler has reappeared at the Stockton Sewer Ponds. It was hanging out with the Bonaparte's Gulls near the east end of the eastern-most ...
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ERPFROMCA@...
May 13, 2000 11:58 pm
This morning Cliff Hawley and I birded Sutter County. Following some rather disappointing migrant searches over the last few weeks we were ready for a good...
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Steve Abbott
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May 14, 2000 3:35 pm
- RBA * California * Central Valley Bird Box * 5/14/00 * CACV0005.14 - Birds mentioned WANDERING TATTLER (San Joaquin) Caspian Tern (Fresno) Forster's Tern...
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John Luther
aplomado-falcon@...
May 15, 2000 12:26 am
Saturday, May 13, I saw at least 8 breeding plumaged Black Terns over Salt Spring Valley Reservoir (1074') in western Calaveras County. I know of no previous...
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Mike Feighner
PAC_LOON@...
May 15, 2000 3:12 am
Central Valley/San Joaquin County Birders: Birded yesterday the Lodi Sewage Ponds, White Slough Wildlife Area, and Lodi Lake. The three Red-necked Phalaropes...
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Andy Engilis
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May 15, 2000 5:14 pm
On Thursday May 11, 2000, on the UC Davis Arboretum, a student confirms a female Hooded Merganser is still present and is accompanied by a single chick! Thus...
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Steve Hampton
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May 16, 2000 4:25 pm
I was at the Yolo Basin Wildlife Area this morning (May 16) and observed an interesting tern. I first wrote it off as a Forster's, but was then attracted by...
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Steve Hampton
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May 17, 2000 8:22 pm
I was just in Louisiana where I saw 7 species of terns from a single spot (Common, Forster's, Royal, Caspian, Sandwich, Least, and Black, from the fishing pier...
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YLIGHTFOOT@...
May 17, 2000 8:42 pm
Hi Folks: I had been planning to write and comment on Steve's original sighting, but Steve beat me to it. I was holding off until I could find some additional...
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Steve Hampton
SHAMPTON@...
May 17, 2000 8:51 pm
Tim, You're right on "portlandica", a name given to 2nd year Arctic Terns, which were thought to be a separate species for some years. Now, 2nd year sterna...
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John and Glennah Troc...
GTROCHET@...
May 19, 2000 1:42 pm
Dear Birders, Yesterday at the Cosumnes River Preserve in southern Sacramento County I found a ground nest of Oregon junco with four fairly large, ...
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Andrew Engilis, Jr.
aengilisjr@...
May 19, 2000 10:22 pm
Birders - This has indeed been a very odd year for nesting birds in the Valley (see John Trochet's memo below). Today on Putah Creek, I was netting birds with...
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SGLOVERCCC@...
May 20, 2000 10:58 pm
Hello all, Today I took Mt. Diablo Audubon Society out to Piper Slough and Iron House Sanitary District near Oakley. Piper Slough had all of the usual...
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ERPFROMCA@...
May 21, 2000 5:27 am
This morning Cliff Hawley led a Sierra Foothills Audubon trip to Spenceville Wildlife Area (on the border between Yuba and Nevada Counties). Most interesting...
