Hi all, Today at Putah Creek Riparian Reserve (0.5 miles-ish east of Pedrick Road) I saw a raptor perched above the creek with these characteristics: Kestrel-sized Kestrel-like long barred

Sorry about the misnomer. Dan Murphy Sacramento

Still here in Washington Lake and shipping channel this morning. Diving in front of the Lake Washington Sailing Club. Dan Murphy Sacramento

Birders, Yesterday afternoon while driving home I received a call from Nora Papian that she found a male Cassin's Finch was in our Orangevale yard. After arriving home and waiting for about 80

Watching a Red-necked Grebe in the West Sac shipping channel. Storm bird. I would park at the Barge Canal Access and bike down the levee. Bird is here, (38.5605107, -121.5540329). Best, Emmett

Hello. I found a Northern Shrike at the Sacramento NWR this morning. It was in the willows in the northeast 'corner' of the refuge/auto route, along Logan Creek (39.43351, -122.15768). It was an

Hi, CA Birder Friends! We live in Auburn, and my teenage daughter, Fiona Gillogly, is an avid birder and nature journaler (aka field sketching). She is giving a free talk online this Thursday, Jan

Good morning birders, I returned last night from a weekend of birding with my brother around Mariposa, Fresno, and Madera counties, with a toe dip into Merced. Mariposa County, Saturday, 1/23 There's

The Cassin’s Finches continued today, but they didn’t make it easy. After a brief encounter with three CAFI around 8:45 in the same area where Bart had them yesterday, I could not refund them for

All, I forgot this paragraph about the fire. We are preparing a separate article about this with more details. The count was notable for another reason: approximately 60% ofthe count was burned in

Thanks for the update Steve! Sarah Mayhew Davis

The 50th Putah Creek Christmas Bird Count washeld on December 20, 2020 under strict Covid protocol. Area leaders sought tocover all usual routes with teams of one to two local experienced birders

Fellow bird watchers, There was an Eastern Phoebe along Cache Creek today. Coordinates for the bird and a photo are in an eBird checklist, here. To see this bird, from the Wild Wings access point

Birders—both resident and visiting: I shouldn’t have to do this, but I am continuing to see reports that show clear evidence of TRESPASSING. Please don’t kill the goose that lays the golden

Dear Birders, Today Lynette and I saw a flock of Cassin’s Finches on Rayhouse Road at 10:24. They were in the bottom of a canyon that the road goes into at (38.898955, -122.314494). At the time we

The answer is no, there were no postings. Up until the 2005 bird in So. Cal. all California's records of Baikal Teal were of hunter shot birds, and none of them were seen by anybody else before

I'm curious if there were any postings about this bird prior to it being shot? It reminds me of the Long-tailed duck in Oroville that was found on the Oroville CBC, posted about (ebird, CVB,other?)

Apologies for this duplicate message and the late posting: There have been several emails noting Pine Siskins dying from Salmonella. While this is not normal, it has occurred in the past. The advice

To clarify, the daily limit on ducks is 7 (and the regulation language is "ducks"). Therefore, any duck that happens to show up can be harvested but one hunter would only be allowed to harvest 7 per

Federal Migratory Game Bird Laws, not state determine the bag limits on certain species and totals for all species of waterfowl in California. In the zone that this bird was shot, the total duck bag