Dear Birders, Birding has been seasonably slow of late. The dawn chorus is pretty much done by sunrise. The monthly Tall Forest bird survey last Saturday turned up 60 species, nothing grand. There hav

Dear Birders, After a long hiatus, the public is again invited to participate in the Tall Forest bird surveys. The next iteration is this coming Saturday, 18 June. We will depart promptly through the

Dear Birders, I did another survey for UC Davis this morning, a point count effort at the Accidental Forest. At a couple of the points I was hard pressed to keep up with all the action. Afterwards I d

Dear Birders, I have been out seeking birds regularly at the Cosumnes River Preserve in southern Sacramento County the last several days. On Wednesday the 4th, I did some trail recovery in and near th

Dear Birders, At the Cosumnes River Preserve yesterday I went behind the Farm Center gate, and I enjoyed pretty good birding. The early successional woods and brush had much more activity than did the

Dear Birders, Last Saturday, 23 April, I visited the Cosumnes River Preserve in southern Sacramento County eager to see the flooding occasioned by the Sierra foothills rains two days earlier. But I st

Dear Birders, Last night Andy Engilis reminded me of the particulars of his summer Audubon's warbler encounter in the Sacramento Valley. He observed a female with three youngsters in tow in July, like

Dear Birders, I conducted the monthly survey of the Tall Forest on Sunday the 17th. No water remains on any of the fields behind the Farm Center gate, so waterfowl and shorebirds were in very short su

Dear Birders, Last Sunday I conducted the monthly bird survey in the Tall Forest and vicinity. I found but 71 species, a poor total for the date, but water was scant on the harvested rice fields. I ha

Dear Birders, The marbled godwit and male Eurasian green-winged teal (common teal) found yesterday by Andrew Lee are currently visible on the pond west of Franklin Blvd. southwest of the intersection

Dear Birders, I made my first visit to the Cosumnes River Preserve's Tall Forest and vicinity in 27 days this morning. Not surprising in the least is the change in the vegetation: all native shrubs an

Dear Birders, Susan Goodrich had already found the yellow-bellied sapsucker at Gibson Ranch in Elverta when I arrived earlier this morning. The bird continues in the same area northeast of Gibson Lake

Dear Birders, I have visited closed parcels at the Cosumnes River Preserve in southern Sacramento County almost every day this past week. Here's a summary of the better birds. 26 January (Tall Forest

Dear Birders, Yesterday I pinch hit for Jim Rowoth, who is unable to do his River Walk bird survey this month. In his stead I turned up 85 species on a route that includes the public trails and the TN

Dear Birders, I spent the last two days visiting portions of the Rio Cosumnes CBC circle in search of count week birds. Yesterday I went to the Denier and Shaw Forest parcels north of Twin Cities Road

Dear Birders, I have helped out on CBCs the last two days, so I moved up my monthly Lost Slough bird survey at the Cosumnes River Preserve to New Years Day. This route was instituted by Gary and Jeri

Dear Birders, Thanks, Chris, for getting the word out promptly. Looking at Google Earth, these seem like the coordinates for the Neotropic cormorant to me: 38.108287°, -121.614077° That this bird retu

Dear Larry, Cliff, et al., It would be helpful to have a size comparison. But with the spotting on the breast, sides and flanks, I would favor the less obvious parent to have been a blue-winged teal.

Greetings All, I agree with Bruce and Alvaro on this imaged bird. I haven't seen it this season, but the previous two, or possibly three (another person with an aging brain) winters there was a male h

Dear Birders, I apologize for not having the correct e-mail address on my cell phone. But having just now checked my e-mail, I see that the note below did not get through to its intended destination.