The male Blue-winged Teal was present this morning in the ponds visible from the small viewing platform directly across Franklin Blvd. from the main Visitor Center Parking Lot. Cathie

I'm seeing on eBird that Kathy Blankenship reported a Sage Thrasher on Jan 7 near Pedrick Rd and Putah Creek. Nice find! Any details? thanks, -- Steve Hampton Davis, CA

I just received a good description of the Falcated Duck seen at Sacramento NWR. John Sterling 26 Palm Ave Woodland, CA 95695 530 908-3836 jsterling@... www.sterlingbirds.com (photos,

I received no description of the bird other than a statement that two birders saw it for 15 seconds before it disappeared behind marsh vegetation. I and others have looked at the described location

I saw a Rough-legged Hawk on Road 105 near Road 38A in a field yesterday. Seemed to be on a kill and then flew off. Sarah Mayhew Davis, CA

KINGS CO. Jan 6 I stopped off to bird a few spots in Kings on my drive home Sunday. On the N side of Utica Ave were MT PLOVERS! Finally I can add them to my list. No luck on the RL HAWK. Ar Floyd

The bird looks like a Lesser Scaup to me. the forehead is pretty steep, Greater Scaup usually has a sloped forehead that angles smoothly into the bill, kind of like a ski slope. And the head is

Hi all, Yesterday morning, 1/7, around 9:00 am, we saw the beautiful Harris Sparrow first reported on Dec. 17, at the corner of Business Center Drive and Green Valley Rd. in Cordelia. (We parked in

Congrats to Frances Oliver and Cliff Hawley for finding and alerting us to the female Red-breasted Merganser at the pond by the overpass of Marcum Road and Hwy 70 near Nicholas in southern Sutter

Sal-   I this shows promise for a greater scaup.   Craig Swolgaard Georgetown, CA ________________________________ To: central_valley_birds@... Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 11:47

At 9:20 a.m., I was watching two river otters in a slough that backs up from the Stanislaus River. Then I saw a scaup sitting so still in the water that at first I thought it was a stray decoy. This

Hi birders, Frances Oliver and I are at the jetski pond at the overpass of Marcum Road over highway 70. The continuing Horned Grebe is here and there is a female Red-breasted Merganser with a small

As will no doubt be obvious to any who visit the site, the toyon bushes where the bird was first seen yesterday are on the SOUTH (not NORTH) side of the parking area... Ed

In West Sacramento at about 8 AM today and for several minutes thereafter, I watched a nearly unbroken stream of redwings fly north, roughly aligned with the east levee of the Yolo Bypass. The birds

EBird field trip this weekend!!! The Central Valley Bird Club will be starting a series of field trips to areas in the Central Valley from which there are few if any eBird data. The intent of these

Thanks to Dan for posting our (Ed Harper and me) finds for us. More detail below and more good Sac County year birds. Dan's directions to the TOWNSEND's SOLITAIRE spot should be good. There is

I have seen a couple of Townsend's Solitares at the Old City Cemetery while looking for the red crossbills last Friday and the Tuesday.  They are down by the achive building.   Pam Herlihy (new

Birders ~ Ed Harper asked me to post this for him. Ed Pandolfino and he just found a Townsend's Solitare at the Nimbus Dam State Recreation area (Nimbus Flats). This area is across Hazel Ave. from

Hi, This email is being sent to the four California list servs which cover all or portions of Kern County. The Kern America's Birdiest Inland County Big Birding "Weekend" dates have been set.

I expect to be in the Valley tomorrow and would be grateful for advice as to whether cackling geese are being seen in hordes along Staten Island Rd., and cranes along Woodbridge Rd. Thanks very