Hi all, We saw a few eBird with Mountain Plovers out on Flannery Rd, Solano Co. so we went out looking today. From Hwy 113 and driving down Flannery Rd, drove past the large row of eucalyptus on the l

Hey folks, I spent a few hours today searching for new waterfowl hybrids at Llano Seco in Butte County. This tends to be one of the better spots in the valley for hybrids, but I have never had a day a

Thanks, Thomas, for getting this out, I subscribe to eBird reports but not all of them. So much for the clogged Information Highway. I won’t be going as I have seen two of California’s past records….H

Hi, I'm happy to see on eBird that the Brambling is being seen and photographed regularly. However, with the major snow storms earlier this winter (and the possibility of more snow storms in the near

Hi all, We went on our annual trip over to Sacramento & Colusa NWRs. First drove out to the Maxwell Cemetery to check on the male Vermillion Flycatcher from past years, since we've seen no reports. Di

Hello all Central Valley Birders, The Lake Yosemite/Merced CBC was held on January 4, 2022 under mostly-clear skies with mild temperatures. Nevertheless, 12 participants saw a total of 101 species acr

Sorry I didn’t have time to post this until now. Yesterday afternoon about 3:30, Saturday, 1/8, I was traveling east on 128 near the Putah Creek fishing access in Yolo County. I saw what I think was a

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

Hi folks, A lot of people have been visiting rarely-birded Delta portions of Sacramento County for the Eastern Phoebe on Tyler Island and the Neotropic Cormorant just off Brannan Island Rd. There are

Sorry for the tardy post from Monday, 1/3/22….(but “io” listserv discombobulations/technical difficulties). Highlights via a private tour I led for two Australian birders at the Colusa National Wildli

The 51st Putah Creek Christmas Bird Count was held on December 19, 2021. Area leaders sought to cover all usual routes with teams of experienced birders accompanied by new or less experienced birders.

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

Thursday 6 January, 2022 Dear fellow birders, The Neotropic Cormorant showed up at the dilapidated dredge off West Brannan Island Road this morning at 10 o’clock. I posted the sighting on Ebird for th

Mount Diablo Audubon held a field trip to Putah Creek Wednesday Jan. 5. We stayed on the Solano County side of the creek, starting toward the lower dam off Putah Creek Road and walking through both th

An apparent red-naped sapsucker male was a bit north of Courtland, but in Yolo County, yesterday, January 3, along Waukeena Road (also called Road 145) a few hundred yards east of its junction with No

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

This afternoon I saw a flock of Mountain Plovers in a field off of Woodbridge road. This is the link to my checklist and it has details on the location. https://ebird.org/checklist/S99998419 eBird Che

Hi folks, I've had requests from a few friends to post a summary of my 2021 big year, so hopefully here & countybirders are acceptable places for that. I attempted to break big year records for 7 coun

Hi folks, John Trochet called, saying he found a perched Neotropic Cormorant with a small group of Double-crested Cormorants along Brannan Island Rd in the Sacramento County portion of the Delta a lit

Hello all Central Valley Birders, I'm sending a follow-up to my email from two weeks ago to reiterate that the Lake Yosemite/Merced CBC in Eastern Merced county will be taking place next Tuesday, Janu