Hi all, I made a quick run up to the foothills of Tuolumne County this morning in hopes of refinding some of the recently seen local rarities and possibly...
Hey all, This weather has been trying, but I have been trying to get out a little in spite of it. Today I found a lonely Ruddy Turnstone at Lake Forest Beach....
I've had some great backyard birds this spring. Besides the hordes of pine siskins, mountain chickadees, juncos, and handfuls of lesser goldfinch that are the...
I had a brilliantly colored male townsend's warbler in my yard in South Lake yesterday during the rain storm! I haven't noticed him around today. Kris...
Hey, Today I braved the stormy weather on my way to bird the sierras.....glad I did. These stormy conditions are always best for good waterbirds up there as...
Hi all, I made a quick afternoon run into the foothills of Mariposa hoping to find some of the birds that should be in Mariposa County but never are. I didn't...
Well, I ran down to Lake Forest yesterday evening and didn't see any knots, just a whole lot of blizzard. I went down again at first light today, then down to...
11 a.m. A hen and her two poults, the first of the season, are eating scratch at our bird feeder. The poults are still unstable, sitting often, and wobbling a...
I was up very late last night, so this morning when my wife woke me at 6:30 a.m. she apologized for waking me and said, "I thought that you would want to see...
The Rose-breasted Grosbeak continues to take advantage of my feeders. It has been here on and off all day. I saw him at seven tonight. We managed to get a...
9:12 a.m. We have had an olive-sided flycatcher nesting here for years. I just heard him for the first time this season. Frank J. Severson Placerville, CA...
I just heard from Will Richardson calling from his cell phone from North Lake Tahoe. He is attempting to get a photograph of a sub adult Heerman's Gull. The...
Hi All, I think Bruce is right about it being a first Placer record, but it's the third record (fourth individual) at Lake Tahoe since Oct. 2001! I wonder if...
Mtn Birders, After hearing of Will Richardsons great find of Heermann's Gull at Lake Forest in North Tahoe today, My self and Fritz Steurer headed up after an...
Hey All, I zipped down to S. Lake today, and got a few photos of the tattler. Easiest to approach from the east side of the marsh unless you want to swim....
9:30 a.m. A hen turkey and her nine poults arrived at our bird feeder.(We throw scratch on the ground, too.) At one point, something alarmed the hen; (I have...
Hi All, Sunday May 22 after enjoying the Cassin's Sparrow in Sacramento County John Sterling, his daughter Lydia and I visited South Lake Tahoe and were very ...
Hi All, My mission this spring is to see five Sierran birds I've only heard. I have no "lifers" left, as hearing them counts. But the next couple of months...
Hello Birders, While leading a very small class at Graeagle on 20 May 2005, we witnessed an interesting migrant fallout. We estimated 80+ Wilson's Warblers in...
David Couresey and Elionara Bjuhr joined me yesterday, 5-29-2005, in a birding tour of Calaveras County. We started the day at the bridge just south of the...
I've been hearing a Pileated Woodpecker all morning. My %$#@ cold is so bad I can't chase him down, but he's here. We're high on the NW corner of the Lake. ...
Frances Oliver has kindly pointed out that Calaveras Big Trees State Park lies in both Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties. The North Grove is in Calaveras County...
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Jun 1, 2005 11:00 pm
Hi Everyone, Does anyone know of recent breeding records for Redhead for the Sierra or adjoining Great Basin in the Lake Tahoe vicinity? I know they breed to...
Frances Oliver and I birded Nevada County yesterday (June 3). We covered most of the habitats from the oak savannahs of Perimeter Road/Spenceville, through...
Birders: Yesterday, 4 June 2005) Rick Skehen of Manteca, and David Coursey and Elionora Bjuhr of Tracy joined me on a rather abbreviated trip in my pursuit of...
I don't know what the current status of Black Tern is in Sierra Valley. A single bird foraged over a pond on the north side of Hwy 49 just west of Sierraville...
