http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/ Central Valley Birds Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:40:01 GMT naturestoc http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12694 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12694 Hi all. The male Eurasian Wigeon continues this morning on the Sailor Bar pond with the mallards. Here's a link to one photo of the bird - Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:37:22 GMT Helene Cavior http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12693 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12693 I was on Road 29 near Road 94 looking for the Harlans when I spotted a gull walking on the road with his wing tip hanging. I tried to net it but am wearing a Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:14:58 GMT marekat@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12692 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12692 This morning while driving to work I spotted 3 Phainopepla's sitting on a traffic light post on the corner of Green Valley Rd. and Natoma in Folsom. I was Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:39:17 GMT Dominik Mosur http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12691 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12691 Birded Merced County with Peter Metropulos today. A GREATER ROADRUNNER at Romero Visitor Center got us off to a good start. Between 11 and 5:30 p.m. we birded Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:49:14 GMT Denise and David Hamilton http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12690 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12690 Hi all, Starting out our drive this morning on Hwy 12 on Bouldin Island- there was a huge flock of Greater White-fronted Geese and some Tundra Swans. Of Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:26:03 GMT lcr2sac http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12689 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12689 A male hooded merganser (and mate?) has been hanging out in a pond along Gateway Oaks Drive within the Harbor Oaks Apartment complex. Gateway Oaks Drive is Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:48:02 GMT davejohnson1246 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12688 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12688 Thankfully I read Subhash Chand's report to the Sacramento birding website after having returned from a winter birding trip to Texas from 1/24/10-2/6/10. He Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:44:59 GMT Steve Hampton http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12687 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12687 I've seen this form occasionally in the winter, sometimes around Davis and sometimes near the foothills (e.g. Capay). Steve Hampton ________________ Resource Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:36:27 GMT zsgavilan71 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12686 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12686 Yesterday morning I had an interesting Song sparrow along the slough/canal in North Davis (just west of the Hammond's flycatcher spot). I'll admit to a little Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:15:05 GMT Doug Shaw http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12685 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12685 Hi All, I zoomed the photo all the way up to 400% ( after viewing at 100, 125, 200%) and there appears to the remnants of the black median stripes below the Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:23:47 GMT Kathryn Parker http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12684 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12684 This morning the male BARROW'S GOLDENEYE was present at the Halsey Forebay on Christian Valley Rd. east of Auburn. There was also an OSPREY fying above the Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:18:28 GMT Bob Power http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12683 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12683 Hi all, Our hawkwatch team for the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory took a field trip to the central valley today. Just north of the Peltier/Hwy. 5 interchange, Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:56:12 GMT naturestoc http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12682 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12682 Hi All. On a Sacramento Audubon field trip today in Placer/Yuba counties, leader Richard Barbieri found a nice leucistic White-crowned Sparrow on private Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:21:00 GMT Kasey Foley http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12681 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12681 Please join us for the California Condors Program presented by Linda Kincaid at the Central United Methodist Church, 3700 Pacific Avenue, in Stockton at 7:30 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:33:07 GMT Steve Hampton http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12680 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/message/12680 Today Michael Perrone and I enjoyed mostly empty roads for a Super Bowl day of birding. Highlights 1 BALD EAGLE flyover on Rd 2 1 LEWIS'S WOODPECKER on Rd 85