Folks, The Bufferlands of the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District ( www.bufferlands.com) are typically closed to the public except during guided ...
I am in the process of compiling Grasshopper Sparrow records for the Central Valley for a paper that I am writing for the CVBC Bulletin. I just need dates,...
Birds of note: Pileated woodpeckers, Eurasian collared doves, Lawrence's goldfinches (?nest) This AM, Tuesday 5/1/07, I walked up (still closed to vehicles) ...
Gil Ewing
gewing1@...
May 1, 2007 11:40 pm
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On Sunday 29 April, in the marshy areas along East Levee Road near the Sutter Co. line we saw... Blue-winged Teal (1), Semipalmated Plover (4), Solitary...
Folks, As you may have guessed, what I meant was 75 Semipalmated PLOVERS. There are a handful of fall records for Semipalmated Sandpiper for the property, and...
Greetings! I just received a phone call from a person who was familiar with California Condors that she sighted one on Sunday, April 29, at about 3:00 pm on...
Bill, can you give the list any more information on this bird? What it was doing? If she has looked for it since? Thanks Sylvia Wright Davis (Yolo Co) From:...
I will be in Yosemite the weekend of 5/12-13 and would like to know if Great Gray Owls are still being seen reliably at Chevron Meadows or anywhere else. I've...
If this information could be posted to the list, I expect it would be helpful to more than a few people. Thanks in advance for any tips, Matthew Dodder ...
I had a great morning scouting one of my blocks for the Burrowing Owl Survey. I drove Lake Road from East to West and stopped in at the Fishing Access area on...
A pair of Swainson's hawks have been hanging out near Fremont Park, bounded by 15th, 16th, P and Q Streets in downtown Sacramento, for the last 3 weeks or so,...
Peter
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May 3, 2007 3:33 am
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Highlights after the morning rain: A handful of Black Terns over the catfish ponds on road 29 east of 102. The shorebird spectacular continues at Yolo Bypass...
Joan Humphrey
ybmagpie@...
May 3, 2007 4:45 am
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I visited Bridgeway Is Pond in West Sac today. There were two territorial males of YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD and of GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE. The former is new for...
Fellow birders, My brother, Dennis Johnson, accompanied me to Rossmoor Bar Park today, 5/3/07, and in 4 3/4 hours I tallied 45 species, the highlights being: ...
Central Valley BirdsAt the request of Sylvia Wright, here are a few more details of the reported sighting of a California Condor. The observer was driving East...
I led a research team to survey small mammals in the Tule Elk State Reserve (Near Tupman) and environs during the past week. I do not bird this area regularly...
... Hi, I live adjacent to Bridgeway Island pond, and I was told several weeks ago by a neighbor that the Reclamation District was planning to flood the...
I've just been notified by my friend Chris Huber that the family of burrowing owls has returned for the fourth year to nest at the Truxel to West bound 80 on...
Fellow birders, Before my brother and I leave for West Texas tomorrow morning for 12 days of birding, I decided to take him out this morning to Meiss Road to...
I was pretty excited to see today a Calliope Hummingbird for the first time in my garden (along Putah Creek between Davis and Winters). I thought I had seen...
The Porter Creek Nature Trail had fifty-one oak woodland and wetland species today, the highlight being a Black rail calling from the lower wetland (where the...
More Davis area birds from Friday, May 4: Davis Wetlands has a gorgeous breeding plumage HORNED GREBE in the nw corner of Wastewater Pond. Two pairs of...
This am I was able to squeak in one bird survey before the wind began to howl in the Bypass. The Putah Creek Sink Riparian Areas (Private Land) was quite...
My latest Great Grey was on 09/24/06 sitting on a branch about 20¹ from eastbound Highway 120 in the meadow west of the road about 200 yards eastbound...
Hi birders, these are recent highlights: 5/3: Singing Blue Grosbeak back on territory at northern extension of F street where it crosses county road 29. A...
Joan Humphrey
ybmagpie@...
May 5, 2007 7:10 pm
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We took a little trip up Hwy 108 today & ended up in Jenness Park, a private camp above Long Barn. There was an American Dipper working the upper man-made...
Hi all, After the Shasta Big Day on Thurs. I headed south for a day of birding with Luke Cole. I didn't meet him at Bobelaine until 9:45 am. Between that time...
After all that talk about Hooded Orioles not liking Yolo County, I'm now seeing them every day. A pair is building a nest in the palm at 1309 North Davis...
Greetings all, as I could not participate in the Confidence Trail CSAS outing (due to a motorcycle event and a banged up knee), I did some birding from my car...