Rich, I love the white crowns too and their melodic song. The house finches aren't bad, but those English sparrows! UGH! Lisa Zito in Central CA To:...
After reading your message I realized the half-dozen white crowned sparrows I've been feeding in my front garden haven't been around the last couple of days -...
If anyone wants to get a closeup of nesting House Finches, I have a bunch, they have built nests in every corner of my carport. All are built at the eave level...
Same here in NE Fresno. White crowns are gone. No more Oregon Juncos or the occasional Song Sparrow. Plenty of Mourning Doves, House Finches and House...
My favs are the Juncos and White Crowns. Hopefully, I will catch a lesser goldfinch. Oh, and maybe a pair of Phoebes. I get Kingbirds, hawks (not sure...
I just saw a flock of about 60 white-faced ibis flying in a messy V from southeast to northwest over our neighborhood of Wildwood Island on the Kings River...
On my walk this morning along Sierra from First to Cedar I noticed only the usual suspects - Mockingbirds, Mourning Doves, Scrub Jays, House Sparrows, House...
Eight Fresno Audubon birders made the 320 mile round trip via Highways 41, 99 and 166 to Kern County's Wind Wolves Preserve, 95,000 acres of minimally ...
This year's version of the Red-tailed Hawk nest at Fresno Pacific University is a very full one – today I was able to confirm that there are four young birds...
Don't miss our May Program! Tuesday, May 8 at 7 PM, held at the UC Center, Calaveras Room, 550 E. Shaw Ave, Fresno. The Nature of the Valley: Stories of Land...
Hi birders, I made a brief stop near Storyland at Roeding Park just before noon today, May 6. Highlights were two ROSS'S GEESE hanging with domestics, two...
First was in my own backyard Wednesday afternoon--got my first rufous hummingbird! The beautiful male hung around just for the day. Sherri and I watched it...
Hope your staying cool today. I had a lawerence's come through my almond orchard this morning. First I've ever seen there. Black headed grosbeaks have...
Dave Shuford passed on to me that he had a RED KNOT and a PECTORAL SANDPIPER at the Fresno Wastewater Treatment Plant on Friday. The Pectoral Sandpiper was in...
I have posted a few photos showing the Northern Mockingbird eggs, and now the babies, hatched just days ago, The nest is located in a Jasmine bush entwined in...
Monday morning in the newly planted field north of Bullard and just west of Maple I saw eight birds who passed themselves off as Whimbrels. Yesterday morning I...
Since I'm no expert and since Snow Goose came up as rare just now on Ebird, I'll add that this bird was quite close to Cedar (just south of the pistachio...
<<Since I'm no expert and since Snow Goose came up as rare just now on Ebird, I'll add that this bird was quite close to Cedar (just south of the pistachio...
I have seen both individual snow and Ross geese palling around with resident Canadas or mutt ducks at ponds along the coast in southern and central California....
We still have a lingering Snow Goose and several Aleutian Cackling Geese around Humboldt Bay. Chet Ogan Eureka  Chet Ogan chet_ogan@... 707-442-9353 ...
At 10:16 this morning, Lorraine Bittner of Fresno send me a message: "Just spotted Condor past Chukchansi (on Highway 41 south of Coarsegold, about the 2000...
For the fifth consecutive spring, an Olive-sided Flycatcher was perched in the same coastal redwood snag on the Fresno Pacific University campus today. I've...
Tom mentioned seeing a Snow Goose(Chen caerulescens)at pond near E Bullard & I believe it continues. I spotted an adult today in NE Fresno at ponding basin...
While cycling on Ave 12 yesterday I spotted an interesting bird on the roadside. It turned out to be a common Poorwill, a "lifer" for me. The bird was about 3...
I saw a pair of Lawrence's Goldfinches yesterday near the intersection of Trout Lake and Little Beaver at Wildwood Island near Minkler. The female was...
I was waiting for a hummingbird to come and stop by the new feeder, when I had a surprise visitor. A Rose-breasted Grosbeak stopped by for a snack. He...
This evening I observed a flock of about 30 White-faced Ibis flying over Butler Avenue just north of Fresno Pacific University. There's no significant habitat...
I have been hearing Pacific-slope Flycatchers among many other migrants at Wawona (4,000ft) over the last month, but because of the recent snow in the high...