10,000 Birds
AUGUST 9, 2018
Birds are able to fly away, but their nests and eggs can be destroyed. This past March I helped a Girl Scout troupe build and install 15 Bluebird nest boxes on the Sacramento River Trail. The Carr Fire jumped the Sacramento River within a few days after it began, at the very location we had installed the nestboxes.
10,000 Birds
JULY 15, 2015
One of the best things about our annual Audubon chapter’s Lassen Park campout is that we get to see several species of mountain birds that we don’t normally see in the Sacramento Valley. I call this bird the Water Ouzel because I like saying it – Water Ouzel. Click on photos for full sized images. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq_ZGAe6h_g.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2012
Living near the Sacramento River and its many lakes and tributaries makes it even more likely to see the incredible fish hawk or sea eagle we call the Osprey ( Pandion haliaetus ). Osprey pairs usually form at the nest site where females are fed almost exclusively by their mates prior to egg laying behavior 1.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2014
” The report continues: “Following the breeding season, most tricolors are found in the Sacramento Valley where they aggregate with red-winged and other blackbird species and feed, often in large flocks, on ripening rice.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
For example, not much can beat the experience of seeing a Bald Eagle scare up thousands of Snow Geese at Sacramento NWR. After years of birding, I now have a good sense of what I enjoy as a birder. The morning fly-off of Sandhill Cranes from a frozen wetland at Bosque del Apache NWR is a spectacle, well worth frigid temperatures.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2018
Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Sacramento NWR–Auto Tour Route. Sacramento NWR–Auto Tour Route. Sacramento NWR–Auto Tour Route. Sacramento NWR–Auto Tour Route. Sacramento Expo Center, RV site, on the American River. Stormwater Treatment Area 5/6. 13 Jan 2018. Western Australia.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2018
Sacramento Expo Center, RV site, on the American River. Sacramento NWR–Auto Tour Route. Sacramento NWR–Auto Tour Route. Sacramento NWR–Auto Tour Route. Sacramento NWR–Auto Tour Route. Sacramento NWR–Auto Tour Route. Sacramento NWR–Auto Tour Route. 12 Feb 2018.
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