While poking around the visitor center trail at Donner SP, a group of 17 Bushtits was associating with the kinglets, chickadees and nuthatches in the sunrise...
zach smith
zsgavilan@...
Feb 5, 2003 5:44 pm
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Zach - I've not been birding at Donner in mid-winter, but I would bet that the Bushtits are part of the [very sparse] Truckee Basin wintering population (a...
... If actually from the Great Basin, wouldn't these be the "gray-crowned" subspecies (P. m. plumbeus)? In which case, Zach, did you notice that the birds...
Jeff Davis
jndavis@...
Feb 7, 2003 2:50 am
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Jeff: Take a look at Grinnell and Miller (p. 313). Populations of bushtits north of Donner Lake (e.g., northeastern Plumas County, southern Lassen County) are...
Speaking of bushtits, I have seen them just once in the Tahoe basin in twenty years. This was in January of 2000, about four, near the Upper Truckee River in...
Mark Stirling
bookworm@...
Feb 7, 2003 3:36 am
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Hi Everybody, My friend Eric Sorenson is at our cabin in Sierra City at apprx. 4500 foot elevation. He has a Chestnut-backed Chickadee coming to a feeder next...
I have two records for Chestnut-backed chickadees in Calaveras County in the winter. Both are in Calaveras Big Trees State Park which is at about 4500 feet....
I can add a bit to Penelope's winter records for Calaveras County. A few (<10) Chestnut-backed Chickadees were present throughout the winter of 2001-2002 on...
Jeff Davis
jndavis@...
Feb 9, 2003 3:11 am
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Yesterday (2/10/03) I saw a juvenile and second-year golden eagle soaring together over Mosquito/Swansboro (11 miles north of Placerville at 3,000'). I also...
frankseverson
frankseverson@...
Feb 12, 2003 12:10 am
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more information on chestnut backed chickadees. On 02/15/03 I saw a small flock (<10) on the Calaveras side of the N.F. Mokelumne River, just up (east) of the...
I'm working on a species account about Black Swifts nesting in California for the state's Species of Special Concern project. This chat line is restricted to...
Don, With regard to the Black Swifts at Grouse Falls in Placer County--To the best of my knowledge (Brian Williams and/or Bruce Webb and/or Ted Beedy may well ...
Hi all, Friday, 2/21/03 there was a flock of about 8 - 10 Tree Swallows hunting over the Lake Wildwood Dam (near Penn Valley, Nevada County, about 1200 ft....
I took a drive through Sierra Valley yesterday and was pleased to find two Sandhill Cranes and a hundred or so White-fronted Geese. The geese were in their...
Spring has started in the Sierra. Sierra Valley (Plumas Cty) at 5,000 ft. had 8 Sandhill Cranes , some dancing, plus Canada and White-Fronted Geese. Just...
Hi, The Sierra Valley Sandhill Crane posting reminded me that I am remiss in reporting Sandhill Cranes flying over Nevada County (Penn Valley area) beginning...
Dear Nevada County Bird Contributor, The winter season has ended (Dec. 1 - Feb. 28) and I am again soliciting interesting bird sightings from Nevada County. I...
There were two Bald Eagles sitting in a field about a mile SE of Sierraville on Friday, Feb. 28 Richard C. Carlson Full Time Birder, Biker & Rotary Bureaucrat ...
Will Richardson and I spent a casual morning looking for early spring migrants, loons, phoebes and whatever at a couple spots along Tahoe's north shore. We...
zach smith
zsgavilan@...
Mar 2, 2003 8:59 pm
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That is NOT all. Zach forgot to mention the elusive RSHA calling from all over the Pomin Park/Lake Forest area. Never saw it, but I suspect it may have been...
I was hiking above Bridgeport today, (Penn Valley) on the new Cranston property addition, and saw two groups of sandhill cranes fly over. 1st group = 300+,...
Marya Miller
maryamil@...
Mar 3, 2003 3:33 am
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Near Pine Grove, Amador County On 3/1/03, a Northern Pygmy-Owl flew into a small valley oak near the viewing platform of the grinding rocks at around 1:30pm....
Hi all, As usual, sorry for the cross-posting! Dear North American Birds Contributors, Please send your noteworthy records from the Middle Pacific Coast Region...
... Thanks for getting back to me, Andy ... ======================================================= Andrew Engilis, Jr. Museum Curator Department of Wildlife,...
... The male (superb) falcated duck is back and present on the fish ponds (south of Fish and Game Road) at the Fleming Unit of Honey Lake Wildlife Area. This ...
Bmspi1@...
Mar 5, 2003 11:28 pm
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Some Sandhill Cranes flew northward, east of Alta Sierra in Grass Valley this afternoon, about 2:45. Couldn't seen them, but certainly heard them. Joan Armer...
Quetzal555@...
Mar 6, 2003 11:11 pm
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Mar, 8,'03 10:35 Approx. 1 1/4 mi above Markleeville CA. 5'600' First Hummingbird of the year, a male Anna's, came to the feeder! Bill Hart South Lake Tahoe,...
Hello all, It may not be Capistrano, but the swallows have returned to Lake Wildwood - Cliff Swallows, that is. They may have come in over the week-end. They...
Hello all. I was wondering if anyone could send me the directions to a reliable Sage Grouse lek near Honey Lake, in Lassen County. I was thinking of heading...
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