Today, there was a Great Egret at the Glenshire Pond. (Glenshire is five miles east of Truckee.) This is only the second Great Egret I've encountered in...
The Great Egret first seen on 3/27 was present again today at the Glenshire Pond, five miles east of Truckee. Also present were 124 Common Mergansers (fairly...
Yesterday afternoon and this morning, we drove across Dyson Lane/Marble Hot Springs Road at the north end of the Sierra Valley. We saw two pairs of Redheads...
A male Black-headed Grosbeak showed up at my Lake Wildwood feeder at work (Penn Valley, Nevada County, elev. 1200 ft.) this morning (Apr. 6), two days earlier...
Western Field Ornithologists Conference: Petaluma, CA September 26-30 Late September in northern California is the peak of pelagic birding, ideal for...
FOS (for me) Mountain Bluebirds near Truckee Sewage treatment plant April 5. Also an Ibis at Martis. Hearing but not yet seeing our resident Pileated at...
Hi, Lou Regenmorter and I spend the morning birding the Drivers Flat area in Placer County (reached by going east on Foresthill Rd from I80 in Auburn about 8...
Hi, Today I had three Eurasian Collared-Doves in Jamestown (Tuolumne County). I assume that they are widespread in the foothills by now, but I personally...
Hello Birders, A pair of Collared Doves showed up in Glenshire (near Truckee) at my feeders this past weekend, Saturday April 7, and have been making...
Hi, Based on numerous comments from former attendees since the 2010 end of a fully developed birding field trips schedule associated with the Kern River Valley...
I plan on birding in Alpine and the eastern areas of El Dorado and Placer Counties from April 24 to 26. I would like to hook up with someone who knows those...
Yard report from Glenshire (five miles east of Truckee), Nevada County. There have been a good number of Evening Grosbeaks at our neighborhood feeders for the...
4-22-2012 Greetings Birders, Today I had 2 GRAY FLYCATCHERS at Driver's Flat Road off of Foresthill Road in Placer County. One bird was near the upper parking...
Hi All! Sunday found me birding in Sierra Valley. Besides it being such a beautiful day to bird, both Jim Lomax’s & John Luther’s report of birds in Sierra...
Greetings, Yesterday a.m. a female Mountain Bluebird was perched on top of my birdfeeder at elevation 2900 feet in Grass Valley. I have not seen nor heard her...
Birders- I spent some time at two forest roads that branch off of 11 Pines Road in the upper part of the Rubicon River canyon, 4,200 - 4,700 feet asl. Below...
Yesterday Ted Beedy, Bill Yeates and I had a wonderful day in Sierra Valley. All the expected breeding (singing) birds in abundance and Willets were calling...
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Shantanu Phukan
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May 3, 2012 11:49 pm
Dear Birders: I am a Santa Cruz birder and have never been to Yosemite before but am finally making a trip there in mid-May. I have a few target birds and am...
Hello, Just a gentle reminder to the birding community that the Yosemite Great Gray Owl is endangered and very rare. Â They are particularly vulnerable to...
To those interested in finding/observing a Pine Grosbeak: I located and photographed one last September near the Twin Lakes Campground, just outside the...
eBird is an excellent tool-- not just for seeing precisely where birds have been seen in the past, but for understanding their habitat niches in the area of...
5-10-2012 Greetings Birders, Today I received a message from Scott Dietrich that he had found a Black-throated Sparrow near the upper part of Old Foresthill...
Western Field Ornithologists is offering two scholarships to attend our annual conference in Petaluma, CA September 26-30, 2012. Please encourage any young...
Yesterday Cliff Hawley & I started our day in Pike by birding along Ridge road then down Our House Dam Rd to the river. From here we drove some of the other ...
Migration is definitely on here at Tahoe. Today, I've received reports of a pair of Green Herons flying around in the Tahoe Keys (from today, Don Harriman)...
Hi Everyone, I have a delayed sighting of a tricolored blackbird colony in Tuolumne County that I found last week (on May 11). It is in a sprawling blackberry...
Hi: As Lori Conrad stated in clear, concise post to the kerncobirding list serv Galileo/Silver Saddle will be closed to all birders all day Saturday, all day...
Hello, Apologies for the late post. I led a Sacramento Audubon Society field trip to Sierra Valley yesterday, and during a nice break in the ever changing...
