Hello all, Made the rounds on Monday, finding the many ducks at the Davis Wastewater Oxidation Ponds as reported by Roger Adamson. We noticed a few Redheads in the mix. (Common or not-so-common?? We r

Hello all, On Moday, Nov. 8, we went out to Flannery/Robinson Rd. to look for the Mountain Plovers. We found around 60+ Mountain Plovers on Robinson Rd. in the large field that extends from the corner

Hello All, Made a trip to Sacramento NWR on 12/1. Air more hazy than 'foggy', but boy was the fog thick driving home last night! Highlights: The continued presence of THOUSANDS of Snow Geese, with Ros

Hello all, Birded Lake Solano Park yesterday (finding only one pair of Barrow's Goldeneyes on the creek next to the campground.) However I discovered a hybrid duck in a flock of Common Goldeneyes and

Hello all, This is a late report of our trip on Monday, Jan 12 to Woodbridge Rd. and Staten Island. Nothing out of the ordinary, but the numbers of birds was great! At the Woodbridge Ecological Reserv

Hi all, We spent some time checking out all the gulls on the levees of the sewage ponds late this morning, and returned in the afternoon around 2 pm. Checked out the levees again and then drove down t

Hi all, OK, I am not in the Central Valley, but am noticing a lot of reports from others. Today was the first day our resident mocker was imitating a Western Kingbird. I have not seen one here yet thi

Hello all, We too went to see the Least Bittern family at Yolo Bypass on Aug. 25. What a great marsh area!! We had never been there before, and will return at future dates (but not during the dove-hun

Hi all, It was a lovely day today at Lake Solano and along Putah Creek up to the dam on 128. Highlights- at Lake Solano Campground- a few Red-breasted Sapsuckers, 2 Golden-crowned Kinglets, one male P

Hi all, Starting out our drive this morning on Hwy 12 on Bouldin Island- there was a huge flock of Greater White-fronted Geese and some Tundra Swans. Of course no place to stop, so just had a quick lo

Hi all, Following the great directions from the previous posts, went in search of the Long-eared Owl today at Grasslands Park. We went AM and again in the afternoon. After MUCH searching (Owl neck is

Hi all, We made our annual visit to Sacramento NWR yesterday in perfect weather. Highlights at the refuge include: - Merlin- at the beginning of the route; Peregrine Falcon by the observation platform

Hi all, Finally had the chance to go look for the Black-throated Sparrow as previously reported on County Rd. 22. Arrived around 10:15 am and spent over an hour looking for the sparrow- in the meantim

Hi All, After fine viewing of the Falcated Duck at Colusa NWR, we went in search of the Mountain Plovers as previously reported on Progress Road. (Progress Road -plowed field 0.9 miles north of Oswald

Hi all, Today, Jan 9: Davis Wetlands- Thayer's Gulls out on the dikes with Herring & CA Gulls (How do you have the patience to go through all those gulls, Steve Hampton & others??) Ponds were FULL of

Hi All, After reviewing the pictures we took at Lake Solano on Jan. 9, 2012, I took a good look at the sapsucker we saw. (I heard pecking on a tree trunk and discovered the bird close to the ground wh

Hi all, We were excited to see that Carlos Bethancourt will be the speaker on Saturday. This past May, we went to Panama with John Sterling and Carlos was our Panama guide the whole time we were there

Hi all, We made a quick stop at Sacramento NWR on our way home from our vacation in OR & WA (snow and cold!!). Other than the 1000's of geese and ducks (never have seen so many PINTAILS in one place!)

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 th

Hi All, Since we don't get the PBS station that had American Heartland that John Sterling mentioned in a previous post, I checked online and found it at http://video.ket.org/video/2328348347/ If you d