Hi, In response to several people who have asked ... http://www.natureali.org/cbcs.htm Use the preceding link to Alison Sheehey's Natureali web site to find a...
FYI and marking of calendars: Event: 15th Annual Kern River Valley Spring Nature Festival Dates: Wednesday, April 29-Tuesday, May 5, 2009 Headquarters:...
Hi all, I just got back home from Truckee. Today, near the intersection of Prosser Dam road(Rd289)and Boca Road(Rd290) a Rough-Legged Hawk Flew over to the...
Hi Birders - Enjoyed a long weekend up in the Tahoe area. On Saturday, 11/8, I birded Tahoe Keys in South Lake Tahoe. There I saw the following noteworthy...
Steve and others, Thought I'd address some of Steve's questions of "noteworthiness." None of those is "Stop-the-Presses!!" noteworthy, but they're all good ...
Dear Birders, This evening, a White-throated Sparrow was seen at the Traylor Ranch Nature Reserve and Bird Sanctuary in Penryn, Placer County. The reserve is...
Greetings, Today , Brian and Nick O'Connor, Barney Kroeger, John Lace, and I went up to the Truckee area. We were successful in re-finding the Northern Shrike...
Robins galore enjoying their morning ablutions in the pond. One brightly colored Varied Thrush among them. I did not hear any calls, though. I hope this link...
Summer and all: Most security-minded Yahoogroup owners do not allow photo or other attachments because that will inevitably lead to somebody inadvertently ...
I spent this afternoon in Sierra Valley, where I had a couple of notable sightings. The most interesting (to me, anyway), was of five Cackling Geese with a...
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Nov 14, 2008 12:11 am
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Today I birding around D'Agostini Pond in Somerset (or maybe its in Mt. Aukum). On the north side in an oak tree I saw 2 Phainopepla. The pond is at an...
Today, Nov 14, the Northern Shrike was still on the east side of Boca Reservoir in Nevada County. I found it when I parked at the Day Use Area sign south of...
On Saturday evening, Nov. 15, I heard at least two Common Poorwills calling at dusk at the Brightman Campground in Stanislaus National Forest. The campground...
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Nov 18, 2008 4:21 am
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This morning at Spenceville, I had three or four (I may have counted one twice) Says Phoebes at the corral along the west side of Smartville Rd. There were...
There's a crew of South Lake Tahoe birders that has been going out every Wednesday morning. I just caught word that they apparently had a Bohemian Waxwing...
I found a couple of FOX SPARROWS in a meadow near my house near the 2 mile marker on Greenhorn Road. Other species included both kinglets, both jays, both...
Greetings Birders, Several sightings of note this morning at Cove East on Tahoe's south shore. A Peregrine Falcon, flew low over the mouth of the Upper...
The Bohemian Waxwing was still present this morning. I showed up to "the spot" at Cove East about 15 minutes too late, according to Don and Lynne Harriman,...
... but more than compensated by my first Tahoe Basin Eurasian Collared-doves! Whoopee! For most of the afternoon, I only had a few small groups of Cedar ...
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Nov 22, 2008 1:46 am
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I just got word (and a beautiful photo) today that Matthew Matthiessen and a crew of five others saw the bird feeding in the same mountain ashes at about 8:40...
Birders, My self, Fritz and Tim Stuerer were up there most of Sunday and did not see the bird. That does not mean it was not there. There were two different...
Sorry for the cross posting but I wanted to thank all who attended the workshop on Birds of the World at the Central Valley Symposium this past Saturday....
Happy Thanksgiving all, I spent all morning birding Cove East and cruising around the Tahoe Keys, trying to find the trio of Eurasian Collared-Doves that are ...
Finally. I have been looking for one for 3 yrs in my immediate area. I first heard it at my neighbors. They have a bunch of dead trees due to pine beetle. I...
I had a beautiful sapsucker in a cedar tree this morning. Unfortunately, I didn't get a photo. It looked closest to the "Adult male southern" illustration in...
I have a bird box that a Nutall's Woodpecker occasionally uses as a night roost. I found that unless I put in some wood shavings for 'roosting' material the...
Hi, John Schmitt called this evening to report YELLOW-BELLIED Sapsucker, 2 RED-NAPED Sapsuckers, and 3+ RED-BREASTED Sapsuckers today at c. 2600' Tillie Creek...
Hi Summer, There's been a male Acorn Woodpecker sleeping in one of our Bluebird boxes for quite a while now. We discovered him one late afternoon while...