On the way back with my oldest daughter from picking up our new mini- van...we passed through Death Valley. It was our first time there, and of course I knew...
Due to our "social" calendar, my wife advises me that if I go out to Merced NWR tomorrow 1/03/09, one of my very favorite areas, to join the CBC being ...
I drove around the Merced NWR CBC area today to get a preliminary survey of what we might see tomorrow-and, by the way, even though it rained today, tomorrow...
Today I needed to take Helen Button some bird food above Oakhurst and I spent some time looking for a Varied Thrush she'd seen at ECCO 4 days ago without...
Yesterday was the 2d Merced NWR CBC-After fearing that Friday's rains would cause havoc, yesterday turned out to be a beautifully clear day, abet a bit windy....
A big thank you for whoever got the Christmas bird count included in the Jan. 1 paper on the "To do list" for 2009. It listed 12 outdoor activities for every...
I have uploaded the table of results for the 2008 Lost Lake CBC to the Files section of the Yahoo Groups Fresno County Birders page. It shows numbers for each...
I put 3 photos in the 00001 photo file tonight of the sub-adult Red-breasted Merganser that was found by someone (?) on the 12/27/08 Lost Lake CBC. I haven't...
My apologies to Gary and other area birders for not submitting a report about this specific bird. I've been so focused on getting the count statistics compiled...
Yesterday out at the Mendota Wildlife Area where Hwy 180 crosses the slough I watched 14 Bonaparte's Gulls wheeling around above a group of Eared and Clark's...
Yesterday at the Cornelia Ave pond just south of Bullard in NW Fresno-I had a wonderful diversity of waterfowl-29 Canvasbacks, 5 Hooded Merganzers, 12 Common...
As it seemed such a sunny day, at least relative to our recent run of overcast, I drove up to Merced National Wildlife Refuge, for an afternoon of birding....
Today at Bass Lake I refound the Barrow's Goldeneyes near Rocky Point from Rd. 222. I also had 2 Willamson's Sapsuckers just south of the ampitheatre day use...
Greetings! On the way back from a Fresno Audubon Wednesday outing to the Madera Grasslands, Bev Brock, Pete Fahey and myself found a Sage thrasher on Rte. 603...
As I was driving through Fresno on Highway 99 Sunday at dusk, just north of Ashlan I saw three flights of Cattle Egrets heading north across the highway....
Tried for a half hour to see the Sage thrasher near Daulton, no luck. This is the second time I went out there with no luck. Other being Lynn's Cassins...
Thank you, Gary Wood, for your suggestion that I check out the small flock of BONAPARTE'S GULL, who continue to swoop in a rather tern-like fashion over ...
Hi Birders: This morning I saw a Red-breasted Merganser at the western-most pond on the north side of the Madera Waste Water Treatment Plant. 3rd county...
I took my son and a friend on a long walk at Woodward Park on Saturday. We explored the new section of river bottom at the north end of the park. Highlights...
The juv. Yellow-bellied sapsucker continued at Lost Lake Park yesterday. It was in the area where it was found on the CBC. It was next to the river, about...
Hi Birders: This morning on our way to a doctors appointment at Clovis Community Hosptial, my wife and I saw 2 Greater White-fronted Geese in the pond on...
I'm new to this group and just wanted to say hello and was wondering if someone could help me identify some birds that I noticed in my tree a couple of weeks...
About 12:30 PM today I had a Glaucous-winged Gull and five Thayer's Gulls in a flock of approximately 500 gulls in a field being irrigated just south of the...
Pete's message regarding the white-fronted geese prompted me to report a probable juvenile snow goose admongst our usual evening contingent of Canada geese...
Thanks to all that have replied to me about the type of birds I spotted in my tree. Rodney Olsen identified them as Black-crowned Night-Herons Kelly...
Please help me identify this little guy. I cannot find him in my books and have never seen one like it at me feeder before. There are two of them, slightly...
On Ave 15, north of the Ranchos, I was passing through an almond orchard I'm pollinating this spring and ran into at least 60+ vesper's. They were all over...
I spent 4 hours scouting the ponds this morning and found one good shorebird pond as well as a gull roost. Among the many shovelers and buffleheads I found a...
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