All: Jim Rowoth and I met up at Lodi Lake this morning for a leisurely bird walk. Although things weren't exactly hopping, I did record a number of "first of ...
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John and Glennah Troc...
gtrochet@...
Oct 3, 2000 10:17 pm
Dear Birders, Now might be a good time to look for grasshopper sparrows. In the last few days I have found them thinly but widely distributed in southern and...
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Steve Hampton
SHAMPTON@...
Oct 4, 2000 5:46 pm
Greg Schwab reported an apparent Eurasian Collared Dove in s. Davis yesterday. He only saw it when it was on the ground at a feeder and got good close looks....
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Steve Hampton
SHAMPTON@...
Oct 6, 2000 8:14 pm
The potential first state record (outside the resident Ventura birds) of a Eurasian Collared-Dove (I know, it may be an escapee) continues to visit a feeder in...
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dsuddjian@...
Oct 6, 2000 11:45 pm
In a message dated 10/6/00 1:15:16 PM Pacific Daylight Time, SHAMPTON@... writes: << The potential first state record (outside the resident Ventura...
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John Sterling
lesserroadrunner@...
Oct 7, 2000 3:20 am
Birders, On West Butte Road in Sutter County this morning I found 4 Lark Buntings, two at the entrance to the aggregate mine and two more along the rock wall...
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Jamie Chavez
jcwings@...
Oct 7, 2000 2:18 pm
Group, These birds have been on the move for a couple of years now around here. They are breeding well away from Ventura as you go north along the coast,...
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David Yee
davidyee@...
Oct 9, 2000 4:49 am
Dear Birders: Early this afternoon (Oct 8) there was a Common Tern at the Lodi Sewage Ponds. In a small flock of Black-bellied Plovers, the winter plumaged...
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Luke Cole
luke@...
Oct 9, 2000 5:38 am
... I have had them in suburban Bakersfield, Kern County, as well -- there appears to be a small population there. Luke Luke Cole San Francisco, CA ...
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Steve Hampton
SHAMPTON@...
Oct 10, 2000 5:25 pm
Yesterday, Oct 9, I saw a PALM WARBLER at 11:30 am in the Solano Park Student Family Housing Community Gardens at UC Davis. The bird was approximately in the...
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Jon King
king@...
Oct 10, 2000 7:56 pm
CV birders, Yesterday afternoon (9th Oct 2000) there was an American Dipper near the salmon gate on the American River at the Nimbus Fish Hatchery. This is ...
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Steve Hampton
SHAMPTON@...
Oct 11, 2000 5:39 pm
I forgot to mention, on Friday, Oct 6, at the Yolo Basin Wildlife Area, there were 563 GREATER YELLOWLEGS. For all my searching, I could not find a single...
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Conard, Chris (PWA)
conardc@...
Oct 11, 2000 8:30 pm
I rarely see Violet-green Swallows in the Sacramento area with the exception of the last couple of days. There have been small flocks at the Sacramento County...
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Steve Hampton
SHAMPTON@...
Oct 11, 2000 8:55 pm
Yes, I was surprised to see a handful of them on Monday at the Model Airplane Park off Rd 102 in Yolo County. They were with a group of Tree Swallows. Also,...
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John and Glennah Troc...
gtrochet@...
Oct 11, 2000 9:15 pm
Dear Chris and others, There were 120-140 violet-green swallows around the Barn ponds at the Cosumnes River Preserve in southern Sacramento County this...
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Bruce Deuel
bdeuel@...
Oct 11, 2000 11:20 pm
Hi all, There have been Violet-green Swallows in the several 100s here in Redding for the last 2 days, brought down on the deck by the rain showers; however, I...
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Lois Richter
LRICHTER@...
Oct 12, 2000 1:54 am
Sighted from our yard (in south Davis on Torrey Street) has been a swooping silhouette; seen just after sunset twice last week. It was about 60-70 feet in the...
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Andrew Engilis, Jr.
aengilisjr@...
Oct 12, 2000 6:41 pm
Talk about luck of the sailor! This morning (9:30 am) I heard and then found (Steve's ?) Palm Warbler in the parking lot next to Academic Surge. It was...
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Steve Hampton
SHAMPTON@...
Oct 12, 2000 7:04 pm
[I've added birding@... to this, as there are many UCD folks on that list.] Wow! This suggests the bird is working the arboretum from the Solano Park...
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k1mize@...
Oct 12, 2000 11:21 pm
All: I hit the Stockton Sewer Ponds today around lunchtime. Nothing spectacular to report, but I did have a number of first-of-the-season birds (for me), ...
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Andrew Engilis, Jr.
aengilisjr@...
Oct 13, 2000 4:36 pm
Flying north over I-80 (Between Mace and Olive Drive, Davis) was an adult, light phase Swainson's Hawk. One of my latest Fall records for Yolo County. Andy...
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k1mize@...
Oct 13, 2000 5:14 pm
I realize San Joaquin County is special, but I had a pair of Swainson's Hawks yesterday near the Lodi Sewer Ponds. Does anybody know when they start getting...
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David Yee
davidyee@...
Oct 13, 2000 6:31 pm
Swainson's Hawks that have nested locally in SJ have been noted well into the first part of Nov. While the big fall kettling flocks of Swainson's are most...
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ERPFROMCA@...
Oct 13, 2000 7:12 pm
On October 12 Cliff Hawley, Gjon Hazard, John Ranlett and I did a Placer County Big Day for the California Fall Challenge (San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory)....
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John Sterling
lesserroadrunner@...
Oct 14, 2000 1:53 am
Gjon Hazard and I saw our first-of-the-season Rough-legged Hawk flying over the Yolo ByPass Wildlife Area today. It was (is) an adult male. John ...
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k1mize@...
Oct 14, 2000 10:09 pm
All: On the monthly Willow Slough census today at around noon, a Worm-eating Warbler was found in the area of the Willow Slough Trail known as "the point." It...
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cathyclc@...
Oct 15, 2000 2:38 am
This is my first message on CVBirds...I thought everyone would like to know that on Sunday, Oct.8 I had a pair of Red-naped Sapsuckers in my yard in South...
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Steve Hampton
SHAMPTON@...
Oct 16, 2000 4:46 pm
Michael Perrone saw a CLARK'S NUTCRACKER flying over east Davis on Saturday, Oct 14. The bird did not stop. This is the third Yolo Co. record. The first two...
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John and Glennah Troc...
gtrochet@...
Oct 17, 2000 6:00 pm
Dear Birders, This morning I spent a relatively short period of time on the publicly accessable Willow Slough Trail, mostly in the vicinity of "the Point." I...
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Andrew Engilis, Jr.
aengilisjr@...
Oct 17, 2000 7:38 pm
Forgot to post that I had two interesting birds at the UC Davis Ecosystem on Friday at 5:00pm. The first is a male Hairy Woodpecker, this is the second winter...
