January is a month for fresh starts and that is especially applicable to birders. As the calendar rolls into a new year, birders start their year lists anew and wait […]
Glaucous Gull; © Bart Wickel
American Dipper; © Erna Tarara
Yolo Notable Sightings: December 2021
The month of December was a relatively slow one for the birders of Yolo County, with storms drenching the Valley and dumping more than a dozen feet of snow on […]
Short-eared Owl; © Erna Tarara
From the President: January 2022
Winter is here, and we finally have rain! Many of us have been out birding and enjoying the green hills, as well as the flooded rice fields (see the related […]
Tundra Swans taking flight from Rivergarden Farms; © Ann Brice
River Garden Farms
From Knights Landing to a bit past the Colusa County line, the land along State Highway 45 and over to the Sacramento River belongs to River Garden Farms. It supports […]
Rough-legged Hawk; © Ann Brice
Yolo Notable Sightings: November 2021
November sees thousands and thousands of waterfowl flood into the Central Valley, filling our refuges, fields and bypasses with the spectacle and deafening sound of geese as they take flight […]
Scene from video by Mark Jones
Off-highway Vehicles in Cache Creek
The November issue of this newsletter noted that the Yolo County Board of Supervisors had voted in October to ban off-highway vehicles (OHVs) from Cache Creek. The notice was a […]
Colusa NWR; © Ann Brice
From the President: December 2021
The holiday season is upon us. I hope everyone will schedule time to take a trip to see our winter birds. The waterfowl are in at the refuges, like Colusa and […]
Lewis's Woodpecker at Lake Solano; © Ann Brice
From the President: November 2021
Big news! Off-highway vehicles were unanimously banned on Cache Creek at the Yolo County Board of Supervisors meeting on October 26th. This was due in no small part to the […]
Wilson's Warbler; © Manfred Kusch
Names for Birds-Ever Changing
Many of the common, English-language names for American birds have changed repeatedly over the years. In my time as a birder, the largest egret in Yolo County has been called […]
Magnolia Warbler; © Bart Wickel
Yolo Notable Sightings: October 2021
October got off to a fast start with Yolo’s second record of Cassin’s Kingbird being found on the first of the month (CT). This bird worked its way south along […]
Sandhill Cranes at Staten Island; © JoAnne Fillatti
From the President: October 2021
The cranes are arriving in northern California. Hundred of birds can currently be seen at Staten Island now that the corn harvest is underway, and the numbers will soon grow to […]
Blackpoll Warbler; © Frank Fabbro
Yolo Notable Sightings: Sept 2021
September: the best month of the year for rare birds in California and the month that every birder eagerly awaits. It was peak fall migration which often brings out-of-range visitors […]
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