Date: 9/21/25 7:08 pm From: Glennah Trochet via groups.io <trochetj...> Subject: [centralvalleybirds] yesterday's Tall Forest bird survey results; an interesting jay hybrid
Dear Birders,
After several preceding days of very slow birding (an American redstart in a female plumage on Friday bucked the trend), I didn't hold out a lot of hope for riveting birding on yesterday's monthly survey behind the Farm Center gate. Chris Conard helped out, and he picked out more than a few things that somewhat redeemed the outing. The encounter rate was poor: there were several longish blocks of time that were just dead. The more interesting things were these: greater white-fronted goose- 1 (my FOS had been the previous day) sandhill crane- 9 (FOS, a late date for that) western wood-pewee- 3 dusky flycatcher- 1 western flycatcher- 4 warbling vireo- 1 cedar waxwings- 30 (FOS) Swainson's thrush- 2 (FOS) hermit thrush- 1 (FOS) orange-crowned warbler- 7 common yellowthroat- 6 Wilson's warbler- 6 western tanager- 15
Getting the two *Catharus* thrushes on the same count (at the same spot on the river actually) was kind of fun. I haven't done that very often.
