Hi Rich and All.... Thanks for sharing your feeders with us, I'm really enjoying it! In fact, I was checking it out this morning and snapped a few photos of a...
It has been very quiet, (yeah..., too quiet, Pardner) on the list so I will start. Working my feeders in the last few days have been bright white-crowned...
... Today I watched a TURKEY VULTURE carrying in its bill what I can only guess were gopher guts, the greasy, grimy kind. Turkey Vultures, of course, rarely...
Interesting things keep popping up in my neighborhood-The Cattle Egrets seem to be gone-but now some Grackles are in the ponding basin next to Saroyan...
My first-of-spring Warbling Vireo was in an almond orchard along the San Joaquin River north of Kerman. A mile south of there I found a pair of Red-shouldered...
While setting up my scope on the empty entrance hole of my owl box I noticed fluttering in the background. Quick change of focus and voila, my yard's first...
My bud lives out in the country. He irrigates with a big Rainbird. One summer night he was lying in bed about to go to sleep when his wife asked, "Didn't you ...
Hi, birders. Today (4/7) at the San Joaquin Experimental Range (SJER), Doug Drynan, Brian Gibson, and I found three first-of-season migrants: CASSIN'S VIREO...
This morning at about 8:30 I had a Rose-breasted Grosbeak in my yard again. He was coming to a feeder, and them all the birds flushed. I refilled the feeders,...
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Apr 9, 2006 3:39 pm
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Hello All.... We are settled in enough at the new house (yup, had to move again) to spend a little time out in the backyard puttering around. Highlights were a...
My first of spring Black-chinned Hummingbird male visited the feeder outside my office window this afternoon and since last Thursday I've had a male Rufous...
Hi Birders: I spent 6 hours this morning and had 69 species and 3 new year birds: House Wren, Pine Siskin and Bullock's Oriole. The siskins made it a 4 ...
Hi, birders. Today (4/10), Doug Drynan, Brian Gibson, and I found a few more first- of-spring migrants at the San Joaquin Experimental Range: DUSKY FLYCATCHER...
Dear birders, The Institute for Bird Populations is conducting a two-year, volunteer-based, statewide Burrowing Owl survey, and I am coordinating the effort in...
Hi, birders. Today (4/12) at the San Joaquin Experimental Range, Doug Drynan, Brian Gibson, and I found a few more first-of-season migrants: HAMMOND'S...
Frank Gibson and I took a trip to the Wind Wolves Preserve today to scout it out for the field trip on April 22. We missed our main target bird, Common Ground...
I am guessing that most of us here are aware of the large Burrowing owl colony just north of Woodward Park, in the side of the river bluff. I bike down the...
Do you really mean Burrowing Owls? They usually nest in burrows on flat land not in banks. However, I recall in past years seeing Barn Owls nesting in ...
Between episodes of rain I got up into the foothills today. Highlights were a flock of about a dozen LEWIS'S WOODPECKERS on Pittman Hill Road just south of...
I came home this afternoon after a couple of days at Red Rock Canyon camping with the kids. Only one bird was in the box (via the pervert-cam) and it was...
Today, Bob and I took a trail off of Sky Harbor Rd. The hills were alive! We had many birds in a small area that is thick with fiddle neck flowers. The ...
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Apr 17, 2006 4:10 am
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This morning I had a Purple Martin flying over Pine Flat Lake, and there are Forster's Tern over the fish ponds on Riverbend and Ashlan Avenue. I also had a...
On Monday evening, I went back to the Sky Harbor trail mentioned Sunday. There were still many birds with Lawrence's goldfinches everywhere. In addition to the...
Flamowl@...
Apr 19, 2006 12:14 am
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Hi Birders and County Listers After my post yesterday, Lynn Hemink called for more information and I offered to show him where I saw the bird. This morning he...
It's good to know that Purple Martins are probably nesting in Fresno County once again. The colony we had at Sequoia Lake for over 20 years has not nested...
This morning (4/20) at the San Joaquin Experimental Range, Doug Drynan, Brian Gibson, and I found many migrants, including OLIVE- SIDED FLYCATCHER (1),...
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