Hi All, I've gotten several comments that my "phalarope" photos were actually yellowlegs, so I appologize for the mistake and have corrected my checklist. I think the confusion was that they were

Hi Ted, The four birds in your photos are Greater Yellowlegs, which will occasionally swim like Phalaropes. Note the much longer bills and lack of the black eye patch of a basic Phalarope. Good

Hi All, I went birding with my wife, Susan Sanders, and friends, Rudy and Jeannie Darling, at Colusa NWR yesterday. Due to the dry conditions there are currently huge concentrations of geese and

At the junction of highway 4 with Turk road in Stockton. https://ebird.org/checklist/S77140601 Flock on! Elias/Ηλία Arcata CA/en plein air Walkie talkie primero=707-633-8833 Last ditch

Hi birders, I was doing some owling for the ARNHA Winter Wildlife Census from the levee at the Kansas Way Access near Gristmill Recreation Area on the American River Parkway and had a calling

Today while out for a hike at Sweetwater Creek in El Dorado Hills I met Adam Panto who was looking for the sapsucker (unsuccessfuly) reported by Craig Swolgaard recently. Ran into him again at the

Birders- Once I looked at my two photos from yesterday I realized I made the wrong call. There is a full black border around the red throat- usually found with yellow-bellieds. After asking John

This morning I had a Cassin’s Finch in my backyard near Birch Lane Elementary. It briefly visited my bird bath along with several Purple Finches. I was able to manage a few photos.

Birders- I just got very clear looks at a male red-naped sapsucker on the trail here. I was at the beginning of the hike, where the trail splits and it flew down toward the creek. Very crisp and

I was there yesterday at 3:50 pm to see if they were there late afternoon, and there were 24. Susan Goodrich Sacramento, Ca

If you are after some very close looks at Long-billed Curlews without leaving the confines of urban Sacramento, the large field behind Kit Carson School (along M St between Rodeo and 54th Street) is

Am golden plover continues at woodland sewage ponds. Same area as mentioned by steve Hampton. 8-12 Sally Walters Sacramento CA

Hi All, I am currently looking at the Lesser Black-backed Gull from the overlook at the very end of the fish hatchery trail. Please pardon this brief message from my smartphone Aidan Brubaker Fair

Birders, Gavin Stacey just found a Lesser Black-backed Gull at (38.6324970, -121.2380422) close to Nimbus Fish Hatchery. Image attached. Zeke VanZante, Roseville

Hi Michael, You caught me in an error. Thanks for seeing that. The 18 feet is my guesstimate for a circumference. Sorry about that! Best, John -- John Trochet Sacramento, California trochetj@...

Dear Birders, A week ago Saturday the 21st, I ran this month's Tall Forest bird survey. It was 20 degrees F. to start. I turned up 83 species and a few additional forms, plus 18 deer (six bucks) and

The American Golden-Plover was present this morning (~9am) at the Woodland WTP. It was very cooperatively foraging along the based of the spit along the western shore of the North Pond by itself.

Many of you probably know already, but Mark Martucci and I found an American Golden-Plover this morning at the Woodland WTP this morning. It was first seen rather early, perhaps around 8 am,

We have had one visiting our feeder every day for about two weeks. Beth Grafton-Cardwell Visalia

Hi all, Late in the morning, I visited O'Neill Forebay in Merced County, spending a couple of hours in the Medeiros area. I entered the area, turned right at the T intersection and stopped by the