NB & CV Birders, (Cross-posted since sighting was 20 yards into Solano from Yolo -- well, maybe 50 yards) Yesterday at the Lake Solano campground I found an...
Several birders and I enjoyed a good migrant morning near my house in north Davis today. In 30 minutes, I counted: 1 CASSIN'S VIREO 3 WARBLING VIREOS 8...
Fellow birders, I birded Lower Sunrise today, 1 May 2006, and in 4 hours I tallied 53 species, the highlights being: 1 Great Blue Heron was standing on the ...
Anne King and I again explored the Blue Ridge area of extreme northwestern Yolo County on Sunday. The water level in Cache Creek had dropped sufficiently to...
The Snowy Plover was at the same location today...park at intersection of Seven Mile Slough Rd and Grainland Rd....just north of the Llano Seco wildlife area...
05/02/06; 1400 Today while flagging point counts at a field site east of Mace Blvd on Putah Creek, I encountered a singing Yellow-breasted Chat. The riparian...
Ran through Michigan Bar Rd late afternoon today to find a pair of Lawrence's Goldfinches feeding on the road about 0.7mi north of the bridge across the...
Fellow birders, In almost perfect birding weather, I birded Gristmill Rec Area today, 5/3/06, and in 3 1/2 hours I tallied 45 species, the highlights being: a...
Hi all, On the way back up to Humboldt county I made a brief stop at Colusa NWR. At the bottle brush at the entrance to the auto tour loop there were 2...
Today, while working on the American River at Watt Ave in Sacramento, I found a dead sparrow-like bird in one of the rotary screw traps we use to catch salmon...
There were a good assortment of migrants on Putah Creek, a couple of miles east of Mace Blvd this morning (Western Flycatcher, Warbling Vireo, Yellow Warbler,...
This is a very late post, but better late than never. While doing Swainson's Hawk surveys at Caswell Memorial State Park on Tuesday 4/25, I had a singing...
This morning Toby Rohmer and I made brief birding excursions to the North Covell Drainage Canal (near North Davis Farms) and Putah Creek at Mace Blvd. North...
Hi birders: A noonish stop at Grasslands Park yesterday yielded a Townsends Solitaire along with other migrants. At first glance it was in the same field of...
Joan Humphrey
ybmagpie@...
May 5, 2006 1:05 pm
7778
Excellent spring birding at Grasslands Regional Park this morning at Mace and Tremont south of Davis. Yesterday (May 4), Joan Humphrey found a TOWNSEND'S...
At Stone Lakes NWR we don't find Wrentits to be so rare. A quick look at three years of banding data shows the following: In 2000 we captured 90 Wrentits, of...
maryolo1@...
May 5, 2006 8:03 pm
7780
Is there a problem with the CV group site? I posted a message and a photo today & have not seen it. No postings by anyone since Friday morning . Is it me or...
Well-- I guess I'll try this again; I posted a message re: trip to CRP friday morning, but I guess it didn't get through.Much flooding still in area; River...
On Friday, May 5th, I decided to try my luck at getting some photographs of the pileated woodpeckers reported as nesting behind campsite #12 at Solano Lake...
I just received a phone call from Daryl Coldren. He and Cliff Hawley found and photographed a Gray Flycatcher near the intersection of Flannery and Robinson...
Migrants this morning at Grasslands Regional Park were pretty much the same as Steve Hampton reported yesterday. We did have both a male and a female Calliope...
Hello everyone, Thursday evening around 9pm Elliot Matchett, Sarah Johnstone and myself found four Common Poorwills south of Fruto in Glenn County. For viewing...
Friday evening at the quarry site on Meiss Rd., there were 7 nighthawks intermittently flying and resting on the ground in the hour before sundown. None called...
Gil Ewing
gewing1@...
May 6, 2006 9:41 pm
7787
I just received a phone call from Daryl Coldren and Cliff Hawley. They found a male Costa's Hummingbird at the Mace Ave bridge over Putah Creek. It was on...
Mary- With the proximity of Stone Lakes NWR to Cosumnes River Preserve, and the respective watersheds of each, where Wrentits are common, I don't think anyone...
An olive-sided flycatcher was on the "olive-sided flycatcher branch" in the tall sycamore behind my house in Land Park this afternoon. More of a suprise, as...
I also stopped at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge on the way back to Humboldt. I took a short walk along the canal near the entrance, where you cross the...
At least 3 individual Grasshopper Sparrows were observed yesterday actively calling from a grassland dominated by Nassella pulchra, Leymus titricoides, and...
Hey birders, Saw this from Sacramento_birds listerv, thought it deserved crossposting. "On Sunday's Sacramento Audubon Society field trip to Cronan Ranch we ...
Just now, ~30 American White Pelicans flew high over my house which is located south of Sacramento State University. They were moving in a southeasterly...