It is still very early, but many species of waterfowl have returned. At the Wigeon Ponds in the SNWR it is still mostly mallards, a few wigeon, a couple of...
Marcuse (at five palms) had twenty-one Wilson's Phalaropes at 4:30 pm today. There was also a single Avocet in the rice fields to the north. This gravel road...
What a fine day to be birding District 10! A fine golden evening light illuminated golden clouds and golden leaves. The swans are back, thousands of them. They...
I was out looking for gulls and had a Glaucous Gull flyby on Pelger Road where the power lines cross. The bird flew sw, and after 20 minutes I stopped waiting...
Today was the perfect Sutter day to find a Blue-winged teal, gray rainy, and getting dark by four, so I checked the Wigeon Pond and there was my first...
This afternoon there were three species of gulls at the Yuba City Walmart on Highway 20, many Ring-billed, 2 California and one adult Glaucous-winged. I don't...
District 10, Yuba County still holds thousands of swans and pintails, but the ducks are starting to thin out. An immature Bald Eagle flew past at Highway 70...
A rare Sutter County occurance of the Common Merganser, today at Shanghai Bend )due east of the first parking lot) seven females were sitting on a mud bank. ...
Hi, Birders: Western Field Ornithologists' 34th annual meeting will be held in Boise, Idaho, September 10-14, 2009. Papers are now being solicited for...
Hi, Birders: WFO (Western Field Ornithologists) and the Idaho Bird Observatory invite you to the 34th Annual WFO Meeting in Boise, Idaho from September 10-13,...
I noticed a male Blue Grosbeak tonight just over the Highway 113 Sacramento River bridge. Entering Sutter County from the West stop at the second road to the...
Luke Cole 400 Species $40,000 Memorial Challenge A benefit for Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment (CRPE) September 26th and 27th, 2009 The birding...
A small flock of Tundra Swans (about a dozen individuals) flew low over my house this morning, heralding their presence as they passed. It was about 6:45a.m....
A low-flying, calling flock of about 16 Tundra Swans flew over my home 20 minutes ago (at 9:05 this morning). They were flying south. This is the second early...
A fairly large group of Snow Geese flew over my home at 9:57 this morning, heading in a southwestern direction. There were about 110 to 120 individuals. Good...
The Tundra Swans are moving again after yesterdays storm. I had a low, calling flyover of 12 individuals heading southeast at 6:57 am. At 8:04 am, while...
Tonight I'm nearly certain that the four plovers that flew over were mountain plovers. If anyone is on highway 113 a half mile south of Varney Road, you might...
My 11 year old and I spent some time at Gray Lodge today. Our first stop was at a rice field off Pennington Road where there were a good many Tundra Swans....
Today (Dec 1) I took a stroll through Bobelaine Sanctuary (from east end of Laurel Ave off highway 99) in Sutter Co. The most interesting birds to me were a...
Today at noon there was a mystery juvenile swan just west of the Bypass. If going west on 113 you take the first right after the Bypass, you will see 350 swans...
There was a dark morph Swainsons hawk along Highway 113 just east of the Sutter Bypass by about a mile today just after noon. There was a dark morph swainsons...
A nice flock of Sandhill Cranes near the Buttes. They were along the west end of Clark Road (near Half Moon Bay Fruit) in Sutter County. I don't often see them...
This afternoon a Golden Eagle flew south along the Feather River, in both Sutter and Yuba Counties. I have never seen an eagle on the Feather River before. No...
Today there was a Phainopepla on the Middle Trail in the Bobelaine Audubon Sanctuary, Sutter County. Two Bandtail pigeons flew by over Highway 99 just north of...
Jim Laughlin just called saying that he is looking at a Common Loon that has been in both Yuba and Sutter counties today. The loon is south of the 10th...
A strange looking bird showed up at my sunflower feeder today and fed there off and on all day with other House Finches. I believe it to be a leucistic House...
I was just at the wildlifeextra.com website and found another word that may describe this bird better: Xanthochroism Birds can show this condition in one of...
This morning at 8 a.m., a flock of very low flying Canada Geese flew over my home. The flock was heading southwest and numbered 16 individuals. Good Birding ...
