Feel that chill in the air? That means fall has arrived and with it comes the 23rd annual Central Valley Birding Symposium Nov. 21-24, 2019, at the Stockton Hilton Hotel in Stockton, CA. Please join

This morning there was a male MacGillivray's warbler at the Putah Creek Riparian reserve, maybe 30 yd downstream from the dirt stairsteps. Yesterday at Woodland's North Regional Pond (the city's name

Steve Hampton (Mr. Fox Sparrow) suggests that my "Slate-colored" Fox Sparrow photos are actually of an immature Thick-billed Fox Sparrow whose bill is still growing, as the bill is "rather heavy" for

Mixed in with dowitchers and Dunlin for comparison. Smaller than dowitchers and more delicate. Thinner, smaller headed, longer necked, and longer legged that Dunlin. Most similar to Lesser Yellowlegs

This morning at Rayhouse Road in the Capay Valley there were several Northern Pygmy-Owls, a "Thick-billed" and two "Slate-colored" Fox Sparrows among many "Sooties", a Red-breasted Nuthatch (they

Just one quick correction. Soil Born Farms is bordered on the WEST by the Cordova Creek Naturalization Project and on the EAST by Hagan Community Park. Thanks for the reminder, Gil. Good birding.

Hi CV birders, I've been leading monthly bird walks at Soil Born Farms in Rancho Cordova for the last few years. The American River Ranch, a 55-acre historic ranch located within the American River

Today at about 9:20 AM a poorwill flew low across my path, roughly eight feet in front of me, apparently flushed from the sunny slope of the adjacent levee of the Sacramento Bypass. This was just

Dear Birders, Jim Rowoth and I have traded weekends for our respective surveys at the Cosumnes River Preserve in southern Sacramento County. Next Saturday, 12 October, I will lead the Tall Forest

Hi birders, I'm birding with Linda Gal on Michigan Bar Road and we have a Sage Thrasher. The bird is right around this pinned location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/mkMqRbFDivY7rBVU7 My quick digibinned

Yesterday, 10/1/19, my wife and I saw 2 or more Golden-crowned Kinglets near the east end of Willowbank Ditch trail. We saw them at noon in the oak tree at the north-west corner of the wooden bridge

I have spent the past 3 mornings in my blind at the warbler bathing spot upstream from my place, typically from about 9:30 to 11. And the cast of characters is certainly changing with the arrival of

Yesterday I went to visit the Marysville WWT (sewage ponds). I had not been since last January during the Snow Goose Festival. I was shocked to find empty, dry, weed choked ponds. Doing a quick

Dear Birders, I spent this morning and early afternoon in and around the Tall Forest. I had my best local wood warbler birding in a decade or more. Here's my list of migrants: western wood-pewee-

Bird flushed by peregrine a while not refound. John Sterling 530 908-3836 26 Palm Ave Woodland, CA 95695

Scott Hoppe found the second county and fourth Central Valley record of a buff breasted sandpiper this morning at the Woodland sewage ponds. It was at the south edge of the north pond in the dry dirt.

RIGHT ON QUE 28 Sept 2019 1-White-crown sparrow, adult Possible juvenile 2 days ago, today a partial song

I took the opportunity to explore Staten Island yesterday since I was in the area for work. Only the beginning of the road had water but they were actively mowing/cutting corn so the habitat available

We conducted two transect surveys along Putah Creek this morning. The South Fork reserve was surveyed by Irene Engilis who found a flock of 12 Evening Grosbeaks flying overhead along the creek east

Michael Perrone and I had a very birdy morning at Grasslands Park at Mace and Tremont south of Davis. Highlights: 2 Golden-cr Kinglets (my first of the year in Yolo after last year's weak winter for