Dear Birders, I've visited the preserve almost daily recently, with one morning across the river in Yolo County this past week. That was actually my first time out of Sacramento County in more than a

Dear Birders, I was behind the Farm Center gate from about 06:30 to 14:15 today, covering my usual route for the monthly bird survey there. That's not likely to be possible tomorrow, since the rising

Dear Birders, I just noticed that I misplaced the insertion of loggerhead shrike into the 15 March list. It should be after Say’s phoebe rather than before. The comment attending the phoebe entry appl

Dear Birders, I've been seeking birds at the Cosumnes River Preserve in southern Sacramento County most days this past week. I found nothing really unusual. The water is being drawn down or off the ri

Dear Birders, This morning I did the monthly bird survey on the Lost Slough route. I turned up 77 species, a tally a bit poorer than average for the date and conditions. I turned up nothing really not

Dear Birders, I've been out almost daily the last week or so. Friday the 26th of February I visited behind the Farm Center gate, where it was 22 degrees F. predawn at the Accidental Forest. Water had

Dear Birders, In the past week I've made a few visits behind locked gates at the Cosumnes River Preserve. If you hope to visit soon, you should plan to arrive for the early waterfowl fly-out well befo

Dear Birders, In the last two or three weeks, yellow-rumped warblers have become much more numerous around the Tall Forest at the Cosumnes River Preserve in southern Sacramento County. A few are alrea

Dear Birders, Last Friday the 5th I got a chance to visit Howard Ranch in far southeastern Sacramento County. The exhausting day's highlights were two bobcats. The second had coloring that endorsed as

Dear Birders, On Saturday the 12th I visited behind the Farm Center gate, doing a tour very like my monthly survey. The highlight was getting "lost" in the forest in the fog. Without a sun compass, on

Dear Birders, The male hybrid blue-winged teal x northern shoveler has returned for a third year to the Cosumnes River Preserve- I am presuming that the same bird is involved. Today it is frequenting

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

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 f

Dear Birders, I spent another long day checking public and non-public areas of the lower Cosumnes River Preserve for the bean goose found last weekend. I didn’t find it. If this were like previous yea

Hi Chris et al., I looked from about 06:30 to 14:30 excepting about 90 minutes beginning at 11:00. I looked along the public roads and behind the locked gates to the Farm Center and the TNC Barn. I wa

Dear Birders, The season of spectacle has arrived at the Cosumnes River Preserve in southern Sacramento County. This is especially true in the first hour of the day. I am unsure what the numbers are a

Dear Birders, This morning I found a solitary vireo with several characteristics of blue-headed vireo in the Tall Forest at the Cosumnes River Preserve. A long parade of California scrub-jays, some 20

Dear Birders, After staying indoors during the stretch of days with unhealthy air, I returned to the Cosumnes River Preserve in southern Sacramento County. Birding has been consistently quite slow. On

Dear Andy, et al., Grinnell and Miller (1944) make no mention of Hutton’s vireo in the Central Valley at any season. MVZ never worked the valley in anything like the intensity other areas of the state

Dear Birders, I omitted something I wanted to mention. In Warbler Woods today was a Hammond's flycatcher that was singing at intervals and calling quite frequently. This is the same location where Ed