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| 4/18/25 4:03 am |
Sally M. Walters via groups.io <bajaowl...> |
[centralvalleybirds] Greater white fronts |
| 4/16/25 10:45 am |
Andy Engilis via groups.io <aengilisjr...> |
[centralvalleybirds] Peregrine Falcon Nesting attempt on UCD Campus |
| 4/12/25 6:09 pm |
Jason Talbott via groups.io <jwtalbott19...> |
Re: [centralvalleybirds] Clark's grebe at Cosumnes |
| 4/11/25 3:16 pm |
Chuck & Barbara Vaughn via groups.io <cevaughn...> |
[centralvalleybirds] Upcoming Fort Bragg pelagic trips |
| 4/10/25 5:00 pm |
Glennah Trochet via groups.io <trochetj...> |
[centralvalleybirds] Clark's grebe at Cosumnes |
| 4/9/25 9:12 am |
Glennah Trochet via groups.io <trochetj...> |
[centralvalleybirds] Tall Forest bird survey this Friday |
| 4/8/25 7:38 am |
Kate Brennan via groups.io <kbrennan6699...> |
[centralvalleybirds] FOS Calliope |
| 4/4/25 11:30 am |
Chuck & Barbara Vaughn via groups.io <cevaughn...> |
[centralvalleybirds] Fort Bragg pelagics |
| 4/2/25 12:16 pm |
Zane Pickus via groups.io <zanep987...> |
[centralvalleybirds] Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area now OPEN |
| 3/31/25 7:24 pm |
CaliKat via groups.io <calikat_83...> |
Re: [centralvalleybirds] Need Help With Injured Green Heron |
| 3/31/25 3:20 pm |
pamela herlihy via groups.io <pamelaherlihy...> |
Re: [centralvalleybirds] Need Help With Injured Green Heron |
| 3/31/25 2:14 pm |
CaliKat via groups.io <calikat_83...> |
[centralvalleybirds] Need Help With Injured Green Heron |
| 3/30/25 3:21 pm |
Amy Williamson via groups.io <amywillbird...> |
[centralvalleybirds] Rufous Hummer |
| 3/29/25 3:20 pm |
Bruce Webb via groups.io <colimabirder...> |
Re: [centralvalleybirds] Sacramento co BARRED OWL |
| 3/29/25 3:19 pm |
Emmett Iverson via groups.io <emmettscotti...> |
[centralvalleybirds] Sacramento co BARRED OWL |
| 3/29/25 3:16 pm |
Emmett Iverson via groups.io <emmettscotti...> |
[centralvalleybirds] Sacramento co BARRED OWL |
| 3/27/25 4:01 pm |
Larry Montgomery via groups.io <telemark22...> |
Re: [centralvalleybirds] FOS Rufous Hummingbird, hum w/unique feeding style |
| 3/26/25 10:40 am |
Salvatore Salerno via groups.io <salernos47...> |
[centralvalleybirds] Birding Booklet Now Available |
| 3/25/25 12:38 pm |
szafrica77 via groups.io <slmayhew77...> |
Re: [centralvalleybirds] FOS Rufous Hummers |
| 3/25/25 11:17 am |
Kate Brennan via groups.io <kbrennan6699...> |
[centralvalleybirds] FOS Rufous Hummers |
| 3/25/25 10:05 am |
L Markoff via groups.io <canyoneagle...> |
Re: [centralvalleybirds] FOS Rufous Hummingbird, hum w/unique feeding style |
| 3/24/25 5:51 pm |
Sally M. Walters via groups.io <bajaowl...> |
[centralvalleybirds] FOS Rufous Hummingbird |
| 3/22/25 7:21 pm |
szafrica77 via groups.io <slmayhew77...> |
Re: [centralvalleybirds] Arrivals |
| 3/22/25 6:11 pm |
kuschmanfred via groups.io <makusch...> |
[centralvalleybirds] Arrivals |
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Date: 4/16/25 10:45 am
From: Andy Engilis via groups.io <aengilisjr...>
Subject: [centralvalleybirds] Peregrine Falcon Nesting attempt on UCD Campus |
Hi all, We have been monitoring a pair of Peregrines at UC Davis for the past couple weeks, on the main campus water tower, and yesterday we observed copulation and several other breeding behavior signals that the pair are attempting to nest on the tower. I am fairly certain this is the first ever nesting record on the UC Davis campus and I think this may be the first nesting attempt in Yolo County. The eyrie I know of near Monticello Dam is either in Solano or Napa county.
Does anyone else know of any nesting records for Yolo County? UC Davis Med Center in East Sacramento has a nesting pair, with an egg right now.
The Museum will be tracking the nesting attempt and the upper administration has assured that the pair will not be disturbed.
Thanks , Andy
Andrew Engilis, Jr.
Curator
Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology
Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology
University of California, Davis
1 Shields Avenue
Davis California 95616
email: <aengilisjr...><mailto:<aengilisjr...>
Phone Office: 530-752-0364
Phone Mobile: 530-902-1881
Web page: https://mwfb.ucdavis.edu/
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Date: 4/11/25 3:16 pm
From: Chuck & Barbara Vaughn via groups.io <cevaughn...>
Subject: [centralvalleybirds] Upcoming Fort Bragg pelagic trips |
Forwarded for Tim Bray:
Our two April pelagics are coming up soon and you can now register and pay
online with a credit card. The prices are $125 for the half-day trip on
April 26th and $185 for the full day trip on the 27th. Late April can be
an exciting time to get offshore, with opportunities for rare open-ocean
seabirds (Petrels, Puffins, etc).
To sign up go to https://noyopelagics.com/times-directions-and-parking/.
Scroll down to the bottom of that page and in the small calendar for April
click on the 26th for the half-day trip and the 27th for the full day
trip.
Once you have made a reservation, it will ask if you want to add any more
trips before paying. So if you want to do both days (recommended!), you
can add the second trip and pay all at once.
You can also see the report from our most recent half-day trip to Noyo
Canyon here:
https://noyopelagics.com/pelagic_calendar/monday-half-day-noyo-canyon-mammals-and-birds/
The rest of the website is still under construction. Anchor Charters is
working on getting it fully functional soon.
--
Chuck and Barbara Vaughn
Ukiah, CA
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Date: 4/10/25 5:00 pm
From: Glennah Trochet via groups.io <trochetj...>
Subject: [centralvalleybirds] Clark's grebe at Cosumnes |
Dear Birders,
Chris Conard gave me a heads up on a swan-necked grebe at Cosumnes this
morning, reported by one of the volunteers at the Bufferlands. My car's in
the shop today, so I relied on Jason Talbott to look for it. He just
reported that the bird is a Clark's grebe. It's along Desmond Road just a
bit east of the railroad tracks. That's a tough one to get at the preserve.
Best,
John
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Date: 4/9/25 9:12 am
From: Glennah Trochet via groups.io <trochetj...>
Subject: [centralvalleybirds] Tall Forest bird survey this Friday |
Dear Birders,
My weekend dates already otherwise committed this month, I have scheduled
the Tall Forest bird survey at the Cosumnes River Preserve for Friday, 11
April. We will go through the locked gate at the corner of Bruceville and
Desmond Roads at 05:45. The river is still shallowly out of its banks, so
you'll need rubber knee boots for the Accidental Forest portion of the
survey route. Bring water, a snack, TP, and your optical aids. A clothing
layer for first thing in the morning will be worth having, too. The recent
flush of water rendered several fields good for shorebirds too deep for
them, but perhaps they will be suitable once again. Other fields have had
water run off them in advance of preparation for planting this year's
organic rice, so too dry for shorebirds. So I am unsure whether we'll turn
any of these birds up. But after touring the wooded portions of the route,
we'll certainly look for them. If interested in joining us for this
survey, please sign up on the preserve's website, www.cosumnes.org, under
the events link.
Last Friday a pair of ring-necked ducks was loafing on the flood[lain
northeast of the Tall Forest very near where ring-necked ducks nested two
years ago. A female hooded merganser was farther south. A Savannah
sparrow sang a couple of times from a berm between two dried out rice
fields on the west side of the woods. The closest breeding location known
to me for that one is the McCormack-Williamson Tract a few miles west. One
spring a couple of males sang at the Twin Cities Unit, but they didn't
stick, I don't think.
On Saturday I visited the TNC Barn ponds and walked the public trails,
making two passes through the oak copse at the Point. I found five
blue-winged teal, 18 ring-necked ducks, four buffleheads and three ruddy
ducks on the ponds, a singing Hutton's vireo at two places at the Point,
and a singing purple finch near where the trail first approaches Middle
Slough.
On Sunday I ran this month's Lost Slough bird survey. If one arrived no
earlier than sunrise, the opportunity to witness the fly-out of the
still-numerous geese and pair of sandhill cranes was missed. The best find
of the morning was a least bittern, my first at the preserve in several
years. A fair showing of shorebirds included two black-bellied plovers and
a lesser yellowlegs. I also saw a pair of blue-winged teal, only four
northern pintail, one common goldeneye, one American white pelican, two
Caspian terns, and one Hutton's vireo. But aside from western kingbirds
and Bullock's orioles, which have been back for about two weeks, I saw none
of the early returning Neotropical migrant songbirds.
Best,
John Trochet
Sacramento
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Date: 4/4/25 11:30 am
From: Chuck & Barbara Vaughn via groups.io <cevaughn...>
Subject: [centralvalleybirds] Fort Bragg pelagics |
Greetings Central Valley Birders -
Mendocino Coast Audubon Society and Noyo Center for Marine Science
Center will be running a number of pelagic trips out of Fort Bragg this
year. There will be a website with the complete schedule of full-day
trips, half-day trips, and 2-hour trips to do marine science including
deploying ROVs when conditions are good. Pending the website's launch
(hopefully soon) you can call Anchor Charters at 707-964-4550 to reserve
a spot.
The first two trips of the season will be on April 26th (half day, five
hours ) and April 27th (full day, 10 hours). We will aim for the Noyo
Canyon on both trips and and over the continental shelf on the full-day
trip. This was the weekend where, many years ago, we went out to deep
water and had 100+ Murphy's Petrels (confirming them for the state) and
130+ Horned Puffins out in these waters. Laysan Albatrosses have been
regular over Noyo Canyon this year and a Short-tailed Albatross was
spotted by fisherman there in early March.
Future full-day trips this year will be on May 9th and 11th, June 15th,
July 15th, August 15th, September 7th, October 31st, and November 22nd.
Most of these will have half-day trips scheduled within a day or so,
such that those coming up to enjoy the Mendocino coast can make a long
weekend of it and include two pelagic trips.
We'll announce when the website is up with full details. Hope to see you
up here this April or later in the year.
Good birding!
Messenger Chuck Vaughn for Peter Pyle
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Chuck and Barbara Vaughn
Ukiah, CA
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Date: 4/2/25 12:16 pm
From: Zane Pickus via groups.io <zanep987...>
Subject: [centralvalleybirds] Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area now OPEN |
Hi all,
I got word yesterday that the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area is now OPEN again.
The main auto tour loop and its adjacent trails are once again accessible
but the areas south of the Hunter check station (roads to lot F and lot G),
remain closed as there is still work to be done on the roads back there.
I hope we all can get out to the Wildlife Area and find some birds!
Good birding,
Zane Pickus
Davis, CA
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Date: 3/31/25 3:20 pm
From: pamela herlihy via groups.io <pamelaherlihy...>
Subject: Re: [centralvalleybirds] Need Help With Injured Green Heron |
Please Call Wildlife Care at 916 965 9453 or go online at wildlifecareassociation.com
I hope this helps you.
Pam HerlihySacramento
On Monday, March 31, 2025 at 02:14:56 PM PDT, CaliKat via groups.io <calikat_83...> wrote:
#yiv8440544967 P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}Hi all, I just found a Green Heron in my yard with a broken wing. I called Penn Valley rescue and was given the number for Gold Country. When I called them, I got an answering service and they gave me a number specifically for wild birds but it is in San Francisco, much too far away for me. The only other number I could get was for Sac. Wildlife Care but that number was no good. The bird is otherwise healthy and I would really like to hook it up with the help it needs. I am hoping someone here can help me.
Kathryn SandersonOlivehurst, Ca.
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Date: 3/31/25 2:14 pm
From: CaliKat via groups.io <calikat_83...>
Subject: [centralvalleybirds] Need Help With Injured Green Heron |
Hi all, I just found a Green Heron in my yard with a broken wing. I called Penn Valley rescue and was given the number for Gold Country. When I called them, I got an answering service and they gave me a number specifically for wild birds but it is in San Francisco, much too far away for me. The only other number I could get was for Sac. Wildlife Care but that number was no good. The bird is otherwise healthy and I would really like to hook it up with the help it needs. I am hoping someone here can help me.
Kathryn Sanderson
Olivehurst, Ca.
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Date: 3/30/25 3:21 pm
From: Amy Williamson via groups.io <amywillbird...>
Subject: [centralvalleybirds] Rufous Hummer |
Hey folks,
Would anyone with a hummingbird feeder and a currently-visiting Rufous
Hummer (or other unusual Hummer ;) in El Dorado or Sacramento Counties
allow me to come by to add it to my year list sometime soon in the current
spring migration?
As recorded sightings show, most are seen at yard feeders. A downside of
the otherwise enjoyable aspects of being a full-time RVer, is that it's
difficult to establish a feeder.
Drop me an email, if this is a possibility.
Thanks!
Amy Williamson
El Dorado County (mostly)
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Date: 3/29/25 3:20 pm
From: Bruce Webb via groups.io <colimabirder...>
Subject: Re: [centralvalleybirds] Sacramento co BARRED OWL |
1331 41st St is the address. Easily seen from the sidewalk
Bruce Webb
Granite Bay, California
On Sat, Mar 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM Emmett Iverson via groups.io <emmettscotti=
<yahoo.com...> wrote:
> Hey all,
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> Steve Abbott reported a BARRED OWL to the sac WhatsApp today around noon,
> first posted to a sac Audubon Facebook page. The bird is currently being
> viewed now by a mob on 41st street near M street. This is a first county
> record!
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> Coordinates where it is viewable from:
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> (38.5658939, -121.4530632)
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> Best,
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> Emmett Iverson
> Wilton, Ca
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> <http://Sent%20from%20Yahoo%20Mail%20for%20iPhone>
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Date: 3/29/25 3:19 pm
From: Emmett Iverson via groups.io <emmettscotti...>
Subject: [centralvalleybirds] Sacramento co BARRED OWL |
Hey all,
Steve Abbott reported a BARRED OWL to the sac WhatsApp today around noon, first posted to a sac Audubon Facebook page. The bird is currently being viewed now by a mob on 41st street near M street. This is a first county record!
Coordinates where it is viewable from:
(38.5658939, -121.4530632)
Best,
Emmett IversonWilton, Ca
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Date: 3/27/25 4:01 pm
From: Larry Montgomery via groups.io <telemark22...>
Subject: Re: [centralvalleybirds] FOS Rufous Hummingbird, hum w/unique feeding style |
Perhaps he has learned to catch insects on the hoof instead of on the wing! I remember thinking how efficient that would be. Notice one ant on her bill. (Photo from Rancho Cordova.)Larry MontgomerySacramento, CA
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Date: 3/26/25 10:40 am
From: Salvatore Salerno via groups.io <salernos47...>
Subject: [centralvalleybirds] Birding Booklet Now Available |
The Third Edition of "The Birding Sites of Stanislaus and Merced Counties"
booklet is now available to the public. Updates from the Second Edition
(2016) include the deletion of two sites and the addition of three new
sites, for a total of forty-two sites. This 165-page edition also contains
an updated Bird Occurrence Bar Chart of the county's 331 bird species, as
well as new color photographs of local birds. The suggested donation is
$20. The booklets will be available at the Pollinator Festival and Modesto
Rec Fest, as well as from field trip leaders and most board members.
Sal Salerno, Modesto
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Date: 3/25/25 12:38 pm
From: szafrica77 via groups.io <slmayhew77...>
Subject: Re: [centralvalleybirds] FOS Rufous Hummers |
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Date: 3/25/25 11:17 am
From: Kate Brennan via groups.io <kbrennan6699...>
Subject: [centralvalleybirds] FOS Rufous Hummers |
I'm in Nevada County (1200 feet elev) and had my FOS Rufous male on 3/3.
He only stayed overnight, seemed to be riding on storm winds. Second
sighting of Rufous male was on 3/12 and he didn't stay and also seemed to
be riding on a storm. Both had solid rufous backs -- dazzling color. No
other Rufous hummers to date here. A friend in Foresthill (Placer Co, elev
2800) sent me a photo taken of her first Rufous male on Feb. 27 - that's
earlier than all my records going back 10 yrs. Again, it was during one of
those stormy weeks.
Kate Brennan
Grass Valley
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Date: 3/25/25 10:05 am
From: L Markoff via groups.io <canyoneagle...>
Subject: Re: [centralvalleybirds] FOS Rufous Hummingbird, hum w/unique feeding style |
Hello Sally and CV Birders,
My FOS sighting of a Rufous/Allen's hum was on the morning of 2/23. That
one didn't stick around long, only saw it twice, and it was too quick for me
to get photos. Although it was long enough for me to see that it was a
male.
My second sighting of this season was on 3/10, another male. Unlike the
first bird however, this one stuck around for more than a week. During that
time I got to watch it quite a bit and discovered that it had a unique style
of feeding from the feeders. Sometimes it fed in the traditional way, but
other times it would work the rim underneath the feeder. I've seen other
hums poke around under feeders before, but this one did it frequently. It
was pretty comical really, seemed like he was doing it the hard way. But
maybe he liked the challenge, who knows?
Anyway, here's a video of him, in case you have interest.
https://www.flickr.com/gp/canyoneagle/25d45b7qMX
Lori Markoff
Citrus Heights
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Sent: Monday, March 24, 2025 5:51 PM
To: cvbirds <centralvalleybirds...>
Subject: [centralvalleybirds] FOS Rufous Hummingbird
This is also the first all red-backed male noted in 25 years in Sacramento.
All others had a significant amount of green on the back.
Sally M. Walters
Sacramento CA
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Date: 3/22/25 7:21 pm
From: szafrica77 via groups.io <slmayhew77...>
Subject: Re: [centralvalleybirds] Arrivals |
Thanks for the report Manfred. I had my FOS Black-throated gray Warbler
yesterday in my yard. This morning I saw my FOS male Rufous Hummingbird
though only briefly. I also had a Hermit Thrush in my yard tonight. All in
West Davis.
Sarah Mayhew
Davis, CA
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On Sat, Mar 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM kuschmanfred via groups.io <makusch=
<ucdavis.edu...> wrote:
> Spring arrivals have been a bit hit and miss so far but today several
> Rufous Hummingbirds, among them the first mature male, made an appearance ,
> maybe signaling the beginning of a more sustained migration. I have seen
> three females over the last 10 days but only very briefly.
> The same is true for my Barn Swallows. The first sighting was about a
> week ago but none had settled in until 3 days ago when one male started
> spending the night on the frame above our recessed front door. Yesterday I
> saw at least two and today there were at least 3 or 4 swooping in and out
> our front and back porches.
> Swainson’s Hawks were represented, again, by one individual that migrated
> through 10 days ago but today four individuals were circling, calling and
> displaying above my garden and the creek. So they are definitely here now.
> Tree Swallows have of course been back for 2-3 weeks checking out nest
> boxes, disappearing when the weather turned cold but reappearing again with
> warmer temps, as is their habit during early spring.
> Bushtits are building nests. I have found three so far in the riparian
> woodland along the creek.
> House Wrens are singing vigorously in their traditional territories.
> At least one nest box is occupied by White-breasted Nuthatches already
> incubating their eggs. They are always the earliest cavity breeders around
> here.
> I still found recently a Red-breasted Sapsucker along the creek where I
> see them more typically during the winter months.
> There seem to be more American Robins this spring than in the past few
> years when there numbers around here were down.
> Yellow-rumped (Audubon)Warblers are plentiful along the creek, some of
> them starting to molt into their breeding plumage.
> With warm temps in the offing I think bird activity will pick up and
> spring will definitely settle in.
>
> Manfred Kusch
> South bank of Putah Creek
> 1 mile downstream of Stevenson Bridge
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Date: 3/22/25 6:11 pm
From: kuschmanfred via groups.io <makusch...>
Subject: [centralvalleybirds] Arrivals |
Spring arrivals have been a bit hit and miss so far but today several Rufous Hummingbirds, among them the first mature male, made an appearance , maybe signaling the beginning of a more sustained migration. I have seen three females over the last 10 days but only very briefly.
The same is true for my Barn Swallows. The first sighting was about a week ago but none had settled in until 3 days ago when one male started spending the night on the frame above our recessed front door. Yesterday I saw at least two and today there were at least 3 or 4 swooping in and out our front and back porches.
Swainson’s Hawks were represented, again, by one individual that migrated through 10 days ago but today four individuals were circling, calling and displaying above my garden and the creek. So they are definitely here now.
Tree Swallows have of course been back for 2-3 weeks checking out nest boxes, disappearing when the weather turned cold but reappearing again with warmer temps, as is their habit during early spring.
Bushtits are building nests. I have found three so far in the riparian woodland along the creek.
House Wrens are singing vigorously in their traditional territories.
At least one nest box is occupied by White-breasted Nuthatches already incubating their eggs. They are always the earliest cavity breeders around here.
I still found recently a Red-breasted Sapsucker along the creek where I see them more typically during the winter months.
There seem to be more American Robins this spring than in the past few years when there numbers around here were down.
Yellow-rumped (Audubon)Warblers are plentiful along the creek, some of them starting to molt into their breeding plumage.
With warm temps in the offing I think bird activity will pick up and spring will definitely settle in.
Manfred Kusch
South bank of Putah Creek
1 mile downstream of Stevenson Bridge
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