Dear Birders, I had a feeling that todays weather might trigger a migration of something. While working the Sunset Water Treatment Plant in Rocklin, which sits...
I took a nice hike yesterday along the Pacific Crest Trail from old Highway 40 south a mile or two past Roller Pass, then looping back over the Mt. Judah loop...
Today at Donner State Park, I found a Saw-whet Owl along the gravel road that extends from the end of the park campground road south toward Coldstream Canyon....
I was so excited to read Deren's email about the turkey vultures- i was scanning recent posts to see if anyone had seen large flocks of black birds also. On...
Dear Birders, Just putsin' around the house this morning when I recieved a call friend and neighbor Kathy Schmiechen(10:30). She said there was another large...
Dear Birders, Certainly the timing of a cold weather system and the vulture migration account for this mass exodus. The normal seasonal observations contain...
Yesterday was very birdy after our first autumn rain. The fall migrants were WHITE/GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROWS and many BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLERS. Last week I...
Dear Birders, As part of our high Sierran raptor watch, Dennis Cavallo and I headed to Dixie Mtn. Lookout (Plumas Co.) to observe the migration of raptors...
Dear Birders, Jay Sheets and I made the the trip to the northern Sierra's east slope yesterday. Our plan was to visit Thompson Peak Lookout one more time,...
I managed to get in a hike this morning before the storm moved in. (It is currently raining lightly at my house in Glenshire -- predictions are for rain/snow...
Last Sunday I took a walk around our place and found 2-3 WINTER WRENS. 1 was a possible repeat, although I feel it was a 3rd bird. I got very close up views of...
For those of you keeping score at home, the Tahoe basin list has one more species to be added: Crissal Thrasher. I just came across an old specimen record...
Well, that's what I get for posting incautiously after reading something at 1:30 in the morning. I'm not terribly familiar with Crissal Thrasher, but as...
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:18:53 -0700, "Will Richardson" ... Evidently, it's not there. In a review by Ned Johnson of "The Birds of Nevada" by J. R. Alcorn 1988,...
Dear Birders, Yesterday, Jay Sheets and I made our weekly raptor run into Sierra Valley. We spent 3 hours and tallied 68 raptors on roads A-24 into Loyalton...
Txell Genesca, Jon Katz and I decided to check out the Sierra Valley raptors for ourselves this morning. Thanks to Deren Ross for his detailed reports! A...
USGS Collections Manager Claudia Angle was able to find a Crissal Thrasher specimen (#563795) with the date 12 April 1964, collected by Burleigh. The...
A red-breasted sapsucker mewed at me from a tree in my yard today about noon. The last time a red-breasted sapsucker mewed like that here was in December 2005,...
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Nov 1, 2006 10:10 pm
In my experience, (red-breasted) sapsuckers mew plenty in winter. Perhaps they mew more at other seasons; I couldn't say. Michael Perrone Department of Water...
Hi Frank, Seems like an over generalization from Sibley. Many times I've been alerted to the presence of wintering sapsuckers from "mewing," though they are ...
A shorebird tip from Todd Easterla, coupled with yesterday's (11/4) break in the precipitation, inspired me to get out and do a little birding around the lake...
Late report from last Thursday in the drizzle from the base of the dam at Boca Res off I-80: 7 COMMON LOONS 1 EARED GREBE 1 HORNED GREBE ~10 WESTERN GREBES 1...
I birded Cove East this afternoon from 2:30-3:30. It was pretty quiet out there, except for all the coots. The highlights were 3 female green-winged teal mixed...
All, While at Boca Res last week, I was talking with a local fisherman and he said there were about 200 Western or Clark's grebes nesting and displaying last...
Steve ... human disturbance and other issues. In summer 2005 Lake Isabella had thousands of Aechmophorus grebes die because of a human caused algae bloom,...
Along the road to the Loyalton Sewer Ponds today, (Sierra County), I had a Black Phoebe and a Northern Mockingbird. The Phoebe was my first for Sierra Valley....
While working at Lake Davis the past three days I saw a few different things. Red-tailed hawks (adult and juve), 2 adult bald eagles, many goldeneye...
I'll make this fairly short before I pass out from exhaustion. ALPINE Had a great morning in Alpine. In my last seven visits there I added five new county...
