The Placer Big Year is over and the results are in. The cumulative species total for the whole PBY group was a VERY respectable 275 (85% of the full Placer...
Hi folks: Nice weather allowed 11 participants on the Honey Lake CBC to have an enjoyable day counting birds. Species total was 100. Highlights included a ...
This afternoon, driving near the town of Sloat, south of Quincy, I saw an all-white raptor that I think was an albinistic red-tail. I am a new subscriber to...
I have 3 poor-quality digiscopes of the bird. I was able to add them to the Photos area of the group website in the Raptors album. Also, I added them to the...
I had a Townsend's Solitaire in my garden today. This is only the 2nd one I have seen here in 3 yrs and that was April 2006. Summer Brasuel Somerset, CA el...
I just got a call from Rick Le Baudour, who had an adult Northern Shrike in some willows in the meadow off Venice and Aloha (or what I like to call "Pope's...
A couple months ago I noticed abundant moss on the ground beneath our blue oaks. I thought it might have been from wind/rain but the amount of torn-up moss...
I saw a small flock of Cedar Waxwings today. I actually heard them yesterday, too. I have never observed them at this elevation in winter. I see them in spring...
Dear Birders, Just a few things of note from today's SFAS field trip around the Auburn area. Three American Dippers were found actively working the two gravel ...
A large flock of Pine Siskins (50-100 birds) was feeding in a clump of conifers near my apartment in Incline Village on Saturday, the 7th, around noon. They...
Just stumbled across this website, which takes some of the guesswork out of predicting lake level, and the amount/condition of associated habitat, if you...
Sorry everybody, the lists seemed to have stripped out the URL, the way I had posted it. Here it is typed-out: http://www.tmwa.com/lake_level/ Will Richardson...
Hey all, The only population of Wrentits east of the Sierra crest, of which I am aware, is down in southern Inyo Co. But I was just looking at the CDFG range...
I have seen them a few miles NE of Manzanita Lake, north of Lassen National Park-that is as close to the east side that I have seen them except for the ...
Hi, There was a group of swans seen at Lake of the Pines in late Dec. 2008, and an imm. in the group was questioned as a possible Trumpeter. Was that ever...
Hello Kevin, The swans reported from Lake of Pines(Nevada County) are under review with the large Swan being considered for a possible Trumpeter. Photos have...
Hi Will - I did some owl surveys on the east side of the Diamond Mountains for a couple years but did not encounter any Wrentits. I kept track of the other...
Hi folks: Just now (about 2:48 pm on Friday, Feb. 27) got a call from John Sterling, reporting that he and Todd Easterla were watching an adult Slaty-backed...
Hi Folks: John Sterling now (3:55 pm) reports that the adult Slaty-backed Gull is sitting on a levee at the Davis Sewage Ponds in company with a 2nd-yr Lesser...
4pm, Saturday, February 28, 2009 Observer: Bob Barnes First of Spring Rufous Hummingbird (adult male). Observed at a feeder at a private home in the community...
Hi, I am hopeful birders will post FOS observations of each species, even common species, as they arrive in/pass through during spring migration and for the 09...
Hi, From Denise La Berteaux... ... FYI 1: Matt Heindel's on-line 2000 East Kern book (accessible via Joe Morlan's California Birding Pages) lists March 17th as...
Dear North American Birds Contributors, The winter season has already come to a close so please send your noteworthy records from the Northern California...
Hi, If any of you could give Taj some objective as possible guidance (Objective meaning minus the desire/ulterior motive of trying to get him to conduct his...
FOS with the Fresno Audubon Society outing on 3-11-09 we saw a first winter Glaucous-winged Gull. I'm new to birding (less than three years) and been on solo...
If you are a member of the fresno_county_birders Yahoo Group then see my photo diary in the "0000luv2bird" album with 21 species spotted on this field trip...
Sierra-Nevada folks: A follower of one of the lists addressed below reminded me that my post perhaps belonged best on the Sierra-Nevada list. He was right. My...
Hi, Birders: Western Field Ornithologists' 34th annual meeting will be held in Boise, Idaho, September 10-14, 2009. Papers are now being solicited for...
Hello Fellow Birders in Sierra, My wife and I saw this Red Crossbill in a turnout on highway 88 close to the Caples lake. It basically ignored us and I was...
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