Hey Mike, I was at The Tahoe Keys at about 1:00 P.M. and missed your Heerman's Gull. This would definitely be a first County record and one of the best for Eldorado County. This species is very rare i

Mountain Birders, Yesterday from the Coast Gaurd Station in Tahoe City (North Lake Tahoe area) I observed Three Sabine's Gulls and one Arctic Tern. Todd Easterla

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Hello fellow mountain birders: This is a trial ballon to see if some worthwhile discussion might flow from establishing such a group. sierra-nevadabirds@... One such group has started with pelagic bir

Oroville, in the Sierran foothills, was on the itinerary of 7 participants of the Central Valley Bird Club's Feb 6-7 outing to Butte County. On the Saturday, we saw 8 Barrow's Goldeneyes swimming and

I'm asking this question primarily to see how this process works. Unless I hear differently I'll consider blue oaks and up as the area of interest. Is the focus of the group primarily in unusual bird

Original Article: http://www.egroups.com/list/sierra-nevadabirds/?start=6 Steve Abbott Citrus Heights, CA --definitely in the Valley-- -----------------------------------------------------------------

Hi all, Can someone help me with a reliable spot in the Sierra for W-T Ptarmigan in early April? Am I dreaming? I'll be heading east to the Grand Canyon and would like to try for WTPT in CA. Thanks in

Mountain birders, Rolf Mall wrote- "> I'm asking this question primarily to see how this process works. Unless I hear differently I'll consider blue oaks and up as the area of interest. Is the focus o

Dear Steve I have no personal knowledge of WTP's in the Sierra Nevada. However, since the California Department of Fish and Game introduced the bird into the Mono Pass area in 1972, they may still tra

Ted Beedy and I have considered the idea of the Sierra Nevada limits pretty hard, and in terms of the lower edge on the western slope we're thinking the best demarcation is the lowest edge of the oak/

Dear all, On Feb. 13, 1999, I observed an almost assuredly migrating (flew the typical migrant raptor flight pattern for this area) Peregrine Falcon. This was at 3000' in western Nevada County. Does a

Hi all, The kind of habitat David describes occurs in an almost continuous belt from the east side of the Sacramento Valley to the west side in the vicinity of Red Bluff. So some artificial boundary a

Very interesting bits of spring movement here in western Nevada County at 3000' First sandhill cranes of the year came over this afternoon, 4 groups totalling 370 cranes. Last fall I watched the crane

On Saturday, Feb 27, 1999, I stopped to look in the off chance I might find Bohemian Waxwings at a place on the Martis Creek Wildlife Area where Bohemian Waxwings had been reported over a month earlie

Dear all, I reported on the cranes and other migrants on Feb. 23 and I've been out every day since because the cranes continue to pass over. The spring migration happens earlier and with more complexi

Dear all, Today was a major day for migration in western Nevada Co. Clouds breaking up and I watched the movement of birds for 2.5 hours. Had a total of 1400 cranes between 1:18-1:43 p.m. The biggest

When I first received the report of Bohemian Waxwings in Martis Valley, a month ago, I went out several times but was not successful in locating them. The guy who originally reported them also told me

Dear all, Today we had 5266 cranes flying over! I'd guess that this was the main passage of birds and the numbers will now taper off, though we'll know more in the next couple days. When all is said a

Friends: Now that David Lukas has opened a discussion about migration of raptors and cranes, let me relate what I saw today behind Worton's Market in Foresthill, California. This spot has about 160 de