Date: 4/27/24 7:43 pm From: Tom Benson via groups.io <thomasabenson...> Subject: Re: [CALBIRDS] Roseate Spoonbill in Stanislaus County
There is a CBRC-accepted record of the Roseate Spoonbill from Humboldt County, at two different locations 31 Oct and 7 Nov 2020, so not quite the northernmost record in California.
Tom BensonSecretary, California Bird Records Committee
On Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 07:37:57 PM PDT, Aidan Sinha <aidansinha...> wrote:
All,
Just the messenger here. A Roseate Spoonbill was found by Jody Smith today at the San Joaquin NWR in Stanislaus County. The bird later seen by several others. The directions to the bird, given by Jim Gain, are: "From the main parking lot on Dairy Road, east about 500 yards. At sharp bend to the south. Look north from the corner."
This is the northernmost record for CA and the first for Stanislaus County in eBird. There was also a Roseate Spoonbill seen by many earlier in the year ~200 miles to the south in Kern County - possibly the same bird moving around the Central Valley. Congrats to Jody Smith on this find!
