In the October 2025 issue of the Burrowing Owl, we wrote about the habitat restoration project at the Pacific Flyway Pond (formerly known as North Regional Pond, just north of the Woodland Waste Water Treatment Plant). Now, Yolo Bird Alliance, alongside Yolo County Resource Conservation District, has a big planting day coming up at the pond. We […]
Black-chinned Hummingbird ©Manfred Kusch Trip Leader: Manfred Kusch Description: TRIP IS FULL Tour Manfred Kusch’s birding gardens between Davis and Winters. Kusch has cultivated his home garden and surrounding area, which borders Putah Creek, into a true birding extravaganza. He attracts a wide variety of birds in the gardens and habitat around the house, especially hummingbirds […]
Trip Leaders: Henry Witsken and Peyton Bounds Description: As spring migration and baby season continue to kick off, please join us at Bridgeway Island Pond and the Deepwater Shipping Channel in West Sacramento! Bridgeway Island Pond is one of the premier locations in California to observe large concentrations of Blue-winged and Cinnamon Teal at close […]
Lesser Nighthawk ©Zane Pickus Trip Leader: Zane Pickus, Bart Wickel, Julian Johnson Description: Nighthawks are a family of cryptically colored, primarily nocturnal bird species that are a favorite of many birders. Cache Creek is the summer home of the Lesser Nighthawk, which winters in Central and South America before returning to California to breed. Lesser […]
Rufous Hummingbird ©Tom Uslan PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Hummingbirds look delicate, bright and inspiring, but contrary to popular beliefs, they are extremely aggressive animals that fight to defend territories and access mates. The public is invited to the Yolo Bird Alliance’s at its last monthly general meeting of the season on May 20, 2026, featuring Paulina […]
Trip Leaders: Zane Pickus, Emmett Iverson, Julian Johnson Description: Summer in the Sierra Nevada mountains is a wonderful place to be as a birder, with the endless conifer forests and wet meadows filled with beautiful breeding neotropical migrants and uncommon montane species. Wright’s Lake campground in the El Dorado National Forest is a premier location […]
Red Bird of Paradise, Waigeo Island ©John Sterling PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Join the Yolo Bird Alliance at its September program meeting featuring John Sterling of SterlingBirds, who will enlighten as well as entertain us on birding in Indonesia. John will take us on a virtual adventure visiting many islands from Flores to Waigeo in eastern […]
Praire Warbler ©Zane Pickus Note: this trip is now full. Trip Leaders: Kevin Guse, Zane Pickus Description: This is the annual Terry Colborn memorial field trip to Point Reyes. Fall migration at Point Reyes can be spectacular and makes this area a well-deserved birding hotspot. Depending on the weather, the numbers and diversity of songbirds […]
Date: Sunday, October 17, 2026 Time: 8:00am Trip Organizers: Michael Perrone and Sonjia Shelly Yolo Bird Alliance offers ‘Birding for Beginners’—a series of bird-watching walks. New this fall, Yolo Bird Alliance is offering a series of bird walks in the local area for people who are new to birding. The first walk is Saturday, […]
Departs from and Returns to Sausalito Harbor Trip Organizers Zane Pickus, Emmett Iverson Description There is truly no experience in birding quite like that of being aboard a boat on the ocean. Dedicated pelagic birding trips offer a unique opportunity to witness a variety of spectacular seabirds that are not visible from land, such as […]
YBA Program: October 21, 2026 Program Time: 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM PT Speaker Sign-in: 6:30 – 6:45 PM Speakers: Siiri Hamberg, Juliette Dalicano, Sofia Nadeau, Georgia Coleman, Zane Pickus Zoom Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/S0hur9jWTCyWTkFh1YMfNw Overview Join Yolo Bird Alliance for our October program, featuring five recipients of YBA small grants who will share their fascinating work […]
Date: Saturday, October 31st, 2026 Time: 7:30 am- 10:00 am Trip Leaders: Michael Perrone and Sonjia Shelly Description Come look for birds and friendly goblins at the Davis Cemetery District and Arboretum on this Halloween morning bird walk. The 28-acre cemetery is a National Wildlife Federation certified wildlife habitat. Many species of birds are attracted […]