Hi All, Well, now that it's 2003, we will have the official wrap-up of the 2001 SJ County Big Year. It will be at David and Sue Yee's home on January 14. ...
Finally! I have updated the San Joaquin Audubon Society website. Just in case you haven't visited it lately, please do so at www.sanjoaquinaudubon.org. You...
Dear Fellow Birders, It may be of interest to others that I received a telephone call from my friend Rotten Roy Patterson reporting that he had one Pine Siskin...
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Jan 1, 2003 11:23 pm
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All: While birding Woodbridge Rd. I had a pair of EW viewbale form the elevated area within the crane preserve. They were mixed in with Am. Widgeon, Pintail...
Hi All, New Year's Day found me at Flood and Waverly (where else?). What a beautiful day! On what used to be "Pete's Posing Post" (haven't seen a Ferruginous...
Some belated reports. Sorry, between phone outages, holidays, general business, yada yada yada.... New Year's Day trip, 1/1/03: Oak Grove Park - 8-10 VARIED...
All: As I reported to Dave Wagner and the group starting out as I left Lodi Lake Saturday morning, I found a Brown Creeper on the grounds. Directions: As you...
About 75 to 100 Mountain Bluebirds were seen today about two miles east of Clements Road on Harney Lane. The flocks were seen in the general area near the gate...
Hi All, The Big Year Wrap-up will be at David and Sue Yee's house Tuesday, January 14th at 7 pm. We have two trophies, six gift certificates, and some ...
Hi All, I got out to hazy Flood Rd. after 4 this afternoon. I heard a Burrowing Owl, and as I stopped to try and find him I noticed a Prairie Falcon on a ...
All: The recent report of a Brown Creeper at Lodi Lake spurred me into action. I decided to go looking for one in Stockton on my lunch hour today. I soon ...
On January 8, Bonnie Meyer and I spent the afternoon birding Harney Lane, east of Clements Road. We could not refind the Mountain Bluebirds. We birded almost...
All: Joanne, I must of scared the MB's away before you got there. I was able to find 15 - 20 in and around the vineyard at the end of Harney Lane late...
All: The aberrant/mutant/hybrid male Common Goldeneye X ??? with the white face and neck has returned to LSP. He was hanging out with the normal-looking...
If Jackie Geising is on this list, will you please contact me? Or if any of you have her contact info I'd appreciate you sending it to me. Thanks, Cheri...
On Sat., 1/11/03, while taking a group of people to see Sandhill Cranes along Staten Island Rd. and Woodbridge Rd., we saw several large skeins of American...
Les and birders, In my experience, Large numbers of American White Pelicans are not the norm in winter (nor any time of year) in San Joaquin County. Perhaps ...
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Jan 14, 2003 12:43 am
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Hi All, I got out to Flood just after four. There are many Red-taileds hanging out now- a lot of them juveniles. I saw a light morph Rough-legged and a couple...
Last Thursday I saw two Short Eared Owls in the rangeland south of Floodabout mid-distance from Waverly and the house. I spotted the two as a Ferrugenous Hawk...
I took the long way to get to David's house tonight. I went east from Modesto to Knight's Ferry and up Milton Rd. to Hwy 4 and then over to Waverly Rd. and...
There is a reason for that. Commercial flights out of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, heading east towards Tahoe, Reno Salt Lake and Denver follow two...
All: I had just hit the Lodi Lake nature area on my lunch hour today for what I thought was going to be a leisurely stroll, when I found a GRAY CATBIRD near...
Birders, The Gray Catbird that Kurt found at lunch today was on the water side of the dirt trail just opposite from trail marker #22 at 2:15 pm. This is the...
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Jan 15, 2003 11:44 pm
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Hey! When Kurt called me at the office at 3 pm, I figured I'd have to wait till after work or tomorrow to try for the catbird. I soon realized I had no...
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:30:40 -0800, "Jim Holmes" <jfholmes@...> ... Sorry to overlook the most fundamental element in providing directions. The dirt...
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Jan 16, 2003 5:45 am
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The Gray Catbird was still at the Lodi Lake Nature Area this morning at 8:30. It was by marker #22 just inside the area by the dirt path. Bonnie Meyer...
Hi all, As mentioned by Bonnie, the Catbird was pretty easy to see this morning at 8:30 at Lodi Lakes. After doing the loop trail I arrived back at the...
The Gray Catbird was still in the same location at 11:00. Across from marker 22, there is a "wild" pyracantha, and the Catbird was skulking around in the...
Several of us saw and heard the Gray Catbird between 12:30 and 1:00. It was difficult to find and only after standing around for about 45 minutes did we hear...