Greetings I just got home from a walk around Lodi Lake. The entire nature trail wasn’t particularly birdy, but the secondary wooded trail was. Most migrants I found were together in 3-4 Valley Oaks. H

Westgate landing is closed but Glasscock Road is not. The highlight 6 swainson’s hawks soaring above a farmer plowing his field. We saw about 20 to 25 cliff swallows collecting mud in a ditch for nest

All: Laughlin Park is exceptionally birdy this morning (I’m still here!). So far I’ve had 3 Cassin’s Vireo’s (two singing at the same time, 3 Warbling Vireos, 1 Nashville, 1 Yellow, 2 Townsend’s, 2 Bl

All: All of us who love birding should feel blessed. We can all get out & enjoy the outdoors & do what we love to do. We get exercise. Plus we are participating in citizen science by tracking bird mig

All, John Blades and I assisted Tara (de Silva) Kerss, the resident staff biologist, with her spring breeding bird survey this morning, adhering to proper social distancing at all times. John and I dr

Greetings This morning was a slow day for migrants but a good day for multiple species. I was able to find 47 species during a brief walk this morning. Highlights included: FOS Forster’s Terns on the

All. Pat & I went out to Geradot Stable Ponds. The highlights were 2 forster terns fishing both ponds. Watching the nesting Yellow headed & Red wing blackbirds. The were a pair of gadwalls & ruddy duc

All: I birded the park for just an hour this morning. Kathy and Virginia Bonham and Lynnette Buckman were also present. Best bird this morning was a FOS Yellow Warbler. Other birds of note were a Nash

If you look at the subject of my previous post, it’s clear that I’m not maintaining my own sanity during this pandemic. My previous email was NOT about birds I will see tomorrow, but rather those I sa

I had a good morning in the Ripon area this morning. Nothing out of the ordinary, but a MacGillivray’s Warbler was a real treat. Otherwise, there were just good numbers of the expected birds. The numb

All: Laughlin Park was pretty birdy again today. I had my FOS Warbling Vireo, three Cassin’s Vireos, a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, a Red-breasted Nuthatch, three Orange-crowned Warblers, and a Pacific Slop

I took a couple hours off work to bird Lodi Lake this morning. Highlight of the day were 6 warbler species, including: Wilson’s, Townsend’s, BTYW, Nashville, YRWA and Common Yellowthroat. Most were in

To all: We met Kurt Mize & he was nice enough to show us the birding hot spots in the park. We picked up our 1st cassin vireos of the year. Kurt showed us the nesting canada goose. Other highlights wa

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to all: I had my first chipping sparrow in my backyard yesterday evening. In fact this is my first chipping sparrow for California. I have seen them in other states. Dave

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All I am currently at Dentoni Park, Stockton I have found, and trying to refind a Townsend’s Solitare. Get Outlook for iOS

Pat & I arrived about 8:03am. We ran into Susan Schnieder & Pat Paternostro. Their superior hearing talents helped Pat & I to track down Wilson’s warblers & Ash Throated flycatchers our FOS of the sea

Like the Croft’s, I felt like I was missing out on the migrant movement but this morning in my backyard I had at least 2 Nashville warblers, 3 Wilson’s warblers, 2 Warbling vireos, and still the Reb-b

All you are making me jealous seeing all these migrating warblers. I had a macgillivray’s warbler & orange crowned warbler in my backyard. In all my travels this week not one migrating warbler. I see