10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2013

All of these things can be found in Las Vegas, Nevada. Avocets, Black-necked Stilts , and Spotted Sandpipers breed at the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve. He steered me right and there it was, my first life bird in Nevada! Trips Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve Las Vegas Nevada' All-you-can-eat Buffets. Sewage ponds.

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Las Vegas Nevada Birds Blackbirds 213

10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2014

Yellow-billed Magpies are found just inland, and Tricolored Blackbirds can be found on Point Reyes (a legendary migrant trap) by the thousand in the fall. Of course, the Sierra Nevada is a huge mountain range, and there are countless other places to bird besides Yosemite. We have a little bit of everything here. Good gulling in winter.

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California San Diego Birds Oakland 208

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

I was fortunate to rack up a number of lifers in 2013, both at home and abroad ( Varied Thrush in Washington, Brewer’s Blackbirds in California, Burrowing Owl in the Nevada desert). She blogged about it here. But by far the best was witnessing the autumn migration of Sandhill Cranes.

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