This morning, about 10:00, my wife and I saw a PURPLE FINCH in our driveway. It foraged seeds among the gravel. The bird looked healthy except for its legs;...
Greetings, The Grass Valley CBC was held in the rain and cold last Saturday. Expectedly, the species list (preliminary of 99), and especially numbers of...
We dodged 3 inches of snow on Friday and rain on Sunday - but we got the inaugural CAGR count in on what turned out to be a pretty nice December 29th with 28...
Dear Birders, This morning, Dennis Cavallo, Ron Pozzi and I went out again for the remaining Lincoln CBC chase birds for our Placer Big Year. We started at the...
Hello all, Today I went to re-locate the Horned Grebe that was reported from Lake Wildwood on the Grass Valley CBC. It was right where it had been seen last...
Hi again, Does anyone know how to view Lake Combie from the Nevada County side (without trespassing)? I have been down there a couple of times and find no...
Dear Birders, In the interest of the listserv group and so as not to inundate folks with excessive reports and descriptive details of the Placer Big Year, I...
Dear Sierra Nevada Birds list serv members: Apologies! Sending of the Dearth Valley CBC notice to the Sierra Nevada Birds list serv was unintentional. When I...
Hi, The Rusty Blackbird at Furnace Creek in Death Valley National Park is in a location which merits some cautions should anyone wish to go look for and study...
This morning Cliff Hawley and I managed to bird a little between the rain storms. Starting out in Placer Co. we found the continuing EURASIAN WIGEON in the...
Here are my recent additions to my 2008 Nevada County Big Year list. This excludes any birds already observed on 01/01/08, and Backyard Birds of common...
I've been trying (with some difficulty) to keep the feeders free of snow in my backyard in Truckee. 5 or 6 feet of blowing snow tends to clog everything...
DATE: Saturday, January 8, 2008 Bird Survey Results LOCATION: California Department of Fish & Game Canebrake Ecological Reserve (Upper Bloomfield ranch only),...
Hi, Eleven woodpecker species made up 12% of the preliminary 91 species total recorded on Saturday's South Fork Valley Christmas Bird Count (South Fork Kern...
Dear Birders, Today, before leaving the house, I took look at the birds feeding below my feeder and saw three bright male Cassin's Finches. Fall-out from last...
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I went to visit the pond where a smew was seen yesterday and it was not present (it WAS late in the day). I saw the pictures of the bird and they were...
We were out in the yard today planting bare root trees and happened to notice a male LAWRENCE'S GOLDFINCH mixed in with LESSER GOLDFINCHES at our thistle...
I was at work on Thursday, January 10 when I got a call from someone I did the CBC with this year, Pamela Blair. Through the very animated dialogue, I gathered...
To all who are calling and writing regarding the Smew--AT THIS TIME THE BIRD VISITS PRIVATE PROPERTY AND THE OWNERS ARE VERY PRIVATE AND WILL NOT ALLOW ANY...
Greetings all, Sunday Brian O'Connor and I birded the Garden Bar Road area of Nevada County and the Lake-of-the-Pines WWTP. Best birds were a pair of Barrow's...
A few of us did the midwinter bald eagle count at Cherry Lake on Friday morning- We saw 2 adults (one on the "island"), 2 juveniles, and a single golden eagle-...
Dear Birders, Yesterday, I went kayaking for rare and uncommon gulls on Folsom Lake and I found and photographed an adult Mew Gull. A good and tough bird for...
Greetings Birders, Today my son Nick and I birded the far western end of Perimeter Road in Nevada County. 1/2 mile East of White Oak Road we scoped a...
Saturday, January 19, 2008 - Tillie Creek Campground (most of the morning) and, briefly, Evans Road (4 miles up from Wofford Heights), at 2700' in the southern...
Hi Birders, Today on my way to pickup my son, I spotted a Snowy Egret. The Egret was at a pond across from Bear River High School in Nevada County. The pond...
Hi Birders, Today on my way to pickup my son, I spotted a Snowy Egret. The Egret was at a pond across from Bear River High School in Nevada County. The pond...
Hello all, Today I found a flock of Tricolored Blackbirds in Nevada County. Seeing them won't involve imposing on neighbors like those posted earlier. They...
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