December 1, 2004 Dear North American Birds Contributors, The fall season has already come to a close so please send your noteworthy records from the Middle...
My experience birding Sierra Co. is shamefully limited given how close I live. Birder-coverage is probably a huge factor here, and I don't have any idea who's...
Greater Scaup was found two weeks ago.....along with White-tailed Kite.....and Solitary Sandpiper was found last August....I was lucky enough to see all three....
I agree with John and Will concerning the new birds. Two additions that I would expect soon would be Franklin's Gull and Semipalmated Plover. Semipalmated...
I'm sorry to have to put my foot down here, but Sierra County shouldn't be allowed it's first Franklin's Gull until Tahoe (and presumably El Dorado Co.) gets...
You are correct....Semipalmated Sandpiper has been seen already...first by Lomax. Semipalmated Plover has also been seen by Steve Rovell. John Sterling ...
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Jon Winter
wint@...
Dec 9, 2004 2:15 am
The Yellow Rails were collected in the Quincy area by Edward Garner. I have seen the specimens. I believe they are still in the junior college collection (or...
... Sierra-Nevad Birders: Please ignore the previous message typed in my 11th hour here at work where my typing gets ahead of reality.... Yes, I had a...
Steve Thompson, works for the National Park Service in Yosemite and is in charge of the Christmas bird count there. He asked me to post the following for him: ...
I took advantage of the perfectly still conditions to hunt for interesting water birds around the lake today. Nothing extraordinary, but I did manage to get...
MTNBirders, Today I stopped at the Woodward Hills Memorial Cemetery on Cold Springs Rd. (approx ½ mile from Placerville Dr) during my lunch break and was...
Hi folks: Sorry for multiple postings, but I wanted to be sure this reached as many folks as possible. There is a possibility that the Honey Lake CBC,...
Hi folks: My apologies for multiple-postings to no-doubt many of you, but I wanted to make sure this got out to as many folks as possible. The Honey Lake CBC...
Birders, On my way into Sacto to hang out with my son, I stopped at Cameron Park Lake to see what might be about. I was pleased to find a large group of ...
Hello all, A preliminary look at the data from the Grass Valley (Nevada County) CBC on Jan. 1 indicates a slightly low species total (about 98 compared to an ...
Hi Folks: Apologies for multiple posts to some of you. Only 7 people (Colin Dillingham, Lee and Suzi Graves, Bob Hill, Jim and Suzanne McDonald, and I) showed...
There is a pileated woodpecker on our property in Mosquito/Swansboro, 10 miles north of Placerville, at 3,000' elevation in a mixed conifer/oak forest. The...
Birders, On my lunch break today, I returned to Cameron Park Lake (Cameron Park, ED) to see if I could refind the Greater Scaup I had happened across on...
I just received a note from my friend David Lucas. He saw a juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk across from Granite Chief in Truckee on the 6th. Pretty bizarre...
Deep, deep, deep snow kept all but myself from venturing out. Still, between the feeder-watchers and me we managed 45 species. I had a real Marty Stouffer...
The Harris' Sparrow and the White-throated Sparrow are still in Oakhurst. I saw both from the bridge. I was about half way across and looking upstream....
Since the onset of the snow we've put out 80 pounds of seed at our backyard feeder. So far we've seen only the usual winter residents, Scrub and Steller's...
There are 6 Red Crossbills in Mariposa County near Darrah and Triangle Roads. The owners of the property are birders. If you them, Jan and Tom Maxstadt at...
Hi all, This afternoon I had a Northern Pygmy-Owl in my back yard at about 3000 ft. in the Grass Valley area.(Peardale) Dale A Rubach...
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Quetzal555@...
Jan 27, 2005 7:07 pm
We just had a very unusual looking Dark-eyed Junco at the feeders: the head had many areas which were white; first thought was that this bird had been ...
I have uploaded to the Sierra-nevadabirds Yahoogroups web site an excellent photo taken by Brian O'Connor of Grass Valley of, what appears to be, a leucisitic...
