http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/ Post bird sightings, questions and other information regarding Stanislaus County, California. Sat, 25 May 2013 18:23:24 GMT Barbara and Sal Salerno http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2187 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2187 Earlier today, Eric Caine, Daniel Gilman and I had an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER at La Loma Park in a snag across from the playground.  There was also a WILLOW Sat, 25 May 2013 02:05:51 GMT John Harris http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2186 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2186 A few minutes ago a male and female Hooded Oriole appeared at our hummingbird feeders. First of the year for us. The last two years we've had them in mid to Fri, 24 May 2013 19:00:11 GMT Dale http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2185 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2185 The Brant was still there this morning in the North Beach area of O'Neill Forebay. The bird was feeding on algae along the shore of the beach when I left at Wed, 22 May 2013 17:24:02 GMT Barbara and Sal Salerno http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2184 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2184 On a brief, windy walk upstream of the brown bridge at E. La Loma Park, I had my first-of-season WILLOW FLYCATCHER and male BLACK-CHINNED HUMMINGBIRD. Sal Tue, 21 May 2013 11:24:23 GMT Dominik Mosur http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2183 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2183 Spent the day birding various locations in Merced County today with Peter Metropulos and Logan Kahle. We started off at Basalt Campground/San Luis Reservoir, Mon, 20 May 2013 23:07:54 GMT John Luther http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2182 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2182 As Sal says below we did not find any Chestnut-backed Chickadees even though I continued birding the area until 12:45.  As Sal said when I left him I went Mon, 20 May 2013 20:25:21 GMT Jim Gain http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2181 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2181 Sitting with my office door open this morning I had a small wave of migrants move through the complex. We are in an older part of town with lots of mature Mon, 20 May 2013 20:18:23 GMT Barbara and Sal Salerno http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2180 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2180 I began looking for the previously reported Chestnut-backed Chickadees at the top of Del Puerto Canyon this morning.  After a while, I ran into John Luther Sun, 19 May 2013 19:15:00 GMT Jim Gain http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2179 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2179 I rushed up there for a brief 1 hour look and it was noisy at the park. Twice I thought I heard a chickadee, but it was distant and I got no visual. Maybe next Sun, 19 May 2013 16:30:17 GMT Jim Gain http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2178 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2178 Sent from my iPhone ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Sun, 19 May 2013 16:13:25 GMT Kathryn Parker http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2177 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2177 I saw a CHESTNUT-BACKED CHICKADEE at Frank Raines Park in Del Puerto Canyon on my outing last Monday. I see so many of them here at home that I didn't give it Sun, 19 May 2013 15:52:34 GMT Jim Gain http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2176 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2176 It would be a first ever county record. Jim Gain Modesto Sent from my iPhone ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Sun, 19 May 2013 15:38:25 GMT Joe Devine http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2175 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2175 Matthew Dodder & others reported seeing a Chesnut-backed Chickadee along Del Puerto Canyon Rd. during their outing yesterday. The only directions given were Sun, 19 May 2013 04:25:15 GMT Matthew Dodder http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2174 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2174 Folks, I led the my Palo Alto Adult School advanced birding group along Del Puerto Canyon and San Antonio Valley Roads again today. Conditions were cooler than Fri, 17 May 2013 21:01:54 GMT Barbara and Sal Salerno http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2173 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STA_Birds/message/2173 At slightly separated times this morning, John Harris and I heard a singing SWAINSON’S THRUSH at the downstream end of the Orange Blossom Rec. Area trail,