Hello all, Tim Manolis said I must live a charmed life (referring to Grass Valley's CBC records of Townsend's Warblers not raising the eyebrows or regional...
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Bruce Deuel
bdeuel@...
Feb 8, 2001 4:14 pm
On rare occasions Spotted Owls wander all the way to the valley floor. There have been birds found in Chico and Sacramento within my memory. Cheers, Bruce ... ...
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David Lukas
towhee@...
Feb 8, 2001 7:21 pm
Here on San Juan Ridge, just north of Nevada City, we have several pairs of Spotted Owls living at or below 3000', and certainly there's pockets of suitable...
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Deren J. Ross
sparrow@...
Feb 13, 2001 11:47 pm
Nature Hello Folks, Yesterday, I heard from Roger Strahle at Wild bird Station that Evening Grosbeaks were being seen in Auburn. So this morning I spent a few...
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Deren J. Ross
sparrow@...
Feb 17, 2001 8:14 pm
Hello folks, Today, in Auburn, I had a female Cassin's Finch at my bird feeder and a few days ago, when the Evening Grosbeaks came into the feeder for some...
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Deren J. Ross
sparrow@...
Feb 17, 2001 9:42 pm
Correction on the date for the previous post regarding Cassin's Finches: Saturday, February 17, 2001. Now, I will have to put the crystal ball away. Deren...
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David Lukas
towhee@...
Feb 24, 2001 2:31 am
Dear all, For the second year in the row, the spring raptor migration started with a northbound adult Bald Eagle. Also had a dark Merlin hunting around the ...
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Joan A. Jernegan
jjernegan@...
Feb 25, 2001 8:12 pm
We had five Evening Grosbeaks show up at our home birdfeeder (to eat oil sunflower seeds) this morning (Sunday Feb 25) . Four spectacular males and one...
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Gretchen Ziegler
gzig@...
Feb 26, 2001 4:11 am
Litchfield Sage Grouse lek. I'm planning a trip to this lek near Susanville on 4/7/2001. Do you know if they will still be there? Gretchen Ziegler and/or...
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Bruce Webb
BruWebb@...
Feb 26, 2001 9:17 am
On Mid-March 1997, we had 15 at the well known lek on the SE slope of Schaffer Peak. In fact, we could see them from Highway 395 with a spotting scope. My...
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Richard C Carlson
rccarl@...
Feb 26, 2001 11:17 pm
Last Tuesday , March 20, we had a pair of Pine Grosbeaks at our cabin at 6700 ft above Tahoe City. I hope they discover my feeders. No Siskins and no Evening...
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Marya Miller
maryamil@...
Feb 27, 2001 12:22 am
Hi All, About noon today I watched and listened to 6 RSHAs soaring, swooping, chasing and screaming over a field behind the new Penn Valley post office. All 6...
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John Lace
jozyme@...
Feb 28, 2001 1:45 am
I have seen Red-shoulders in that area last year. One flew right in front of my vehicle when I was heading east on rte/ 20 one time. John Lace ... From: Marya...
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Rudy & Jeannie Darling
darling@...
Mar 8, 2001 4:43 am
Today, March 7, a flock of 250 - 300 sandhill cranes spiralled upward over downtown Grass Valley for 20 - 30 minutes, gaining altitude before heading off in a...
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John Lace
jozyme@...
Mar 8, 2001 5:38 am
I heard this same flock of Sandhill Cranes this afternoon from the SPD area on Zion Street in Nevada City. I did not seem them through the pines but their...
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ylightfoot@...
Mar 8, 2001 4:08 pm
Folks: In his recent posting to CVBirds concerning the continuing presence of a Ruff and a Reeve at the Vic Fazio Wildlife Area in the Yolo Bypass on March 7, ...
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Brian Williams
bwcal@...
Mar 9, 2001 11:08 pm
Marya - That is great RSHA country and it sounds like what you saw was a territorial boundary dispute. Birds are on nests now. A three-pair dispute seems...
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brianoconnor@...
Mar 12, 2001 12:25 am
This afternoon a large flock of Sandhill Cranes 40+, and a smaller flock of 9 Cranes were flying high above Wolf Creek in Southern Nevada County. I watched...
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Rudy & Jeannie Darling
darling@...
Mar 13, 2001 3:46 am
Hi all, Two items and a plea for input. First, a follow-up to earlier discussions of Chestnut-backed Chickadees. Here at 3000 feet, "our" CBCH's are looking...
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Bruce Webb
BruWebb@...
Mar 13, 2001 5:54 am
Rudy and others: Judging what species of owl someone's verbal description is always tricky. But, at this time of year, Flammulated Owls, being insectivorous,...
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GWPOTT@...
Mar 13, 2001 7:42 am
I agree with Bruce that it is much too early for Flammulated Owl in the Sierra Nevada. My earliest record for Sequoia Lake/Grant Grove (Fresno Co./Tulare Co....
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Brian Williams
bwcal@...
Mar 13, 2001 5:36 pm
Rudy - 'Tis true - no FLOW until Spring (late April at the earliest). LEOW compete for one of the least known of all birds in N California. I believe they...
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David Lukas
towhee@...
Mar 13, 2001 10:13 pm
Hi all, I had a question about the I.D. of a single flock of white geese. Given a group of individuals all the same size, is it possible to identify them as...
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Joe Meyer
webermeyer@...
Mar 14, 2001 7:32 am
I occasionally see people using 4-letter codes for birds, on this mailing list and others. For instance, Wilson's Warbler would be WIWA, Spotted Owl would be...
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Michael R Hannisian
mrhesq@...
Mar 14, 2001 12:04 pm
Joe They're codes developed by the bird banding lab. Essentially, for birds with two names (e.g.: American Roboin), they are the first two letters of name...
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Mark W. Eaton
mweaton@...
Mar 14, 2001 3:36 pm
All the BBL codes, including collisions, can be found at: http://www.stanford.edu/~kendric/birds/BBLCode.html Mark ... -- Mark Eaton mailto:mweaton@......
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Bruce Webb
BruWebb@...
Mar 14, 2001 4:10 pm
Friends: I am cross-posting this to both CVBirds and Mtn-Birds listservs since this pertains to both audiences. ... From: Joe Meyer <webermeyer@...> ...
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Bruce Deuel
bdeuel@...
Mar 15, 2001 6:12 pm
Hi all, I've been using the 4-letter codes in all my field notes, databases, etc. since 1986. Because the banding office codes produce so many collisions, a...
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Ken Brunges
fulica@...
Mar 15, 2001 6:22 pm
The following was also posted on central-sierra-birds today. Saw the migrating vultures again last evening when I was out walking the dogs. My vantage point is...
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Rudy & Jeannie Darling
darling@...
Mar 19, 2001 7:11 am
Hello again, Bruce Webb and I went back out to Perimeter Road to try to track down the owl that evidence points to being a Long-Eared Owl. It couldn't be...
