While visiting Glacier Nat. Park this past week on 6/27 on the Canadian side, our family heard at Cameron Lake at dusk dozens of Thrushes 'singing' all at...
There were 214 Long-billed Curlews in some alfalfa fields in western Madera county today and one was almost all white with pinkish legs that I got good photos...
Hello all - I will try to attach a photo taken by Laura Colton with DFG - she and I both are not great at Hawk ids. I shouldn't say where it is because it is...
... Dear GeoB, Where approx. is your neighbourhood? We have them here in Burrough Valley, in our yard and down the road. It's pretty rural here, oak groves,...
Yesterday at the Fresno WTP I photographed an almost-white grebe in pond 52 and sent shots off to Jeff Davis in Prather. I was convinced I had a Horned Grebe...
Sorry for the non attachment. Laura is pretty positive this is a dark phase female. She also took a photo of the male which is an intermediate phase. Photos...
I took advantage of our mild weather to spend a few hours walking around in the foothills today along the San Joaquin River Trail starting at the Finegold...
Hi Fresno Birders, I recently moved to Shaver Lake and did a little birding around the area. On the 12th I spent about 2 hours walking the length of Musick ...
Hi Fresno Birders, Non-birding relatives visited last weekend so the birding was not as intense as usual. On the 19th, my parents and I climbed to the top of...
I made a fast run during work through the Madera WTP and the pond that's just about dry had some stunning alternate Western Sandpipers, my first Semi-palmated...
I do it all the time. I meant my first Semi-palmated PLOVER of the summer. Probably wishful thinking at work. Sorry about that, but it probably won't be the...
I may never post here again after this, but before I crawl back under my rock let me say that I had Madera county's second record of a WILLET today at the...
The Tulare County Audubon Society wishes to thank you for letting borrow your county roads for our July 28 field trip to King's Canyon. On Road 180 at the 4000...
And I'm ready to go again!! I spent the weekend camping at Texas Flats above Bass Lake. Did a lot of hiking and visited Soquel Meadow. Beautiful weather, nice...
This morning in my yard in NW Fresno I discovered a sub-adult male Costa's Hummingbird had joined in the fray around my hesper aloe plant along with 5 or 6...
The Tulare County Audubon Society had a field trip to Kings Canyon by way of Hwy 180 last Saturday the 28th of July. At the 4000 foot elevation near Snow Line,...
I was checking a swampy pond near Herndon and West and found a male and female Western Tanager in a Eucalyptus. Just after that, a Swainson's Hawk glided high...
This afternoon there was a juv Baird's Sandpiper at the Chowchilla wastewater treatment plant in the 3rd pond east of Road 16. There was also a Semipalmated...
I didn't find Jeff Seay's Baird's at Chowchilla this morning and there were only about 15 dowitchers but two Semipalm plovers remained. That pond should be...
This morning there was a Red Knot (5th county record) in pond 81 at the Fresno WTP. Approximately 2500 dowitchers kept trading back and forth across North...
Yesterday a flock of Canafa Geese flew over my house and in formation was a white goose with black wing tips. What was this? It had an identical size and...
I came home the other evening to discover a Rufus Hummingbird guarding one of our bottlebrush plants. He/She fended off a couple Anna's Hummers and an excited...
Dear Friends, I was wondering if anybody knows of a good place to hike, look at birds, have a picnic- hopefully near a creek, river or waterfront? Maybe...
Hi, birders. This afternoon, 8/24, there was a herd of ~3000 LONG-BILLED CURLEWS in an ag field along Road 9 between Avenues 18 1/2 and 14. This is the largest...
This morning I was appreciating a beautiful Black-Headed Grossbeak in my backyard with about 20+ House Finches when a Male American Goldfinch landed on the...
I was in Alaska for the first half of the summer, but returned to Sequoia Lake in mid July. Highlights since that time are the following: July 30 & August 3:...
This morning at the Fresno wastewater complex I photographed a jaeger that has many signs pointing to Pomarine such as its size, which was about as big as a...