Nearly all of the world’s tricolored blackbirds nest in the Central Valley and nearby foothills. Yolo County has been home to several breeding colonies in recent years, totaling twenty thousand […]
Tricolored Blackbird; © Lynda Goff
Bobcat Ranch March 2021; © Sonjia Shelly
From the President: April 2021
Spring is underway and I thought you might enjoy seeing how Bobcat Ranch currently looks. The fire was devastating, but you can’t but feel hopeful when you see a sight […]
Allen's Hummingbird; © Zane Pickus
Yolo Notable Sightings: March 2021
It was a slow month for the Yolo eBird reviewers but a few great birds kept March interesting for birders. The find of the month was an adult male Allen’s […]
Rufous Hummingbird; © Manfred Kusch
From the President: March 2021
Signs of spring are here! The migratory waterfowl are moving north, and some birds are starting their nesting activity, like the Red-tailed and Red-shouldered Hawks on my property. I checked […]
Harris's Sparrow; © Rob Floerke
Yolo Notable Sightings: February 2021
Emmett Iverson here, taking over for Steve Hampton after twenty-some odd years of writing monthly reports for the Burrowing Owl. Steve will be sorely missed by the birding community, not […]
Lazuli Bunting; © Ann Brice
A Century of Changing Birdlife in the Central Valley
From 1912 to 1923, Joseph Grinnell and fellow ornithologists at UC Berkeley surveyed birdlife in spring and summer at forty-one stations in the Central Valley, producing a baseline list of […]
Broad-billed Hummingbird; © JoAnne Fillatti
From the President: February 2021
The Broad-billed Hummingbird recently found in Davis has given hundreds of people great pleasure. This first county record (and perhaps even first Central Valley record) was all thanks to Victoria Cross and […]
Woodland Regional Park nest box installation; photo Jennifer Segar
A network of nest boxes for Yolo County songbirds
Placement of nest boxes for small songbirds along the Putah Creek corridor has had a history of success. Birds fledge young from them in large numbers, year after year (see […]
Broad-billed Hummingbird; © Bart Wickel
Yolo Notable Sightings: January 2021
Steve Hampton has been compiling monthly Yolo County Notable Sighting reports for the YAS’s Burrowing Owl newsletter since August 2001. This is his last report for us as he is […]
Pine Siskin; © Steve Hampton
Salmonellosis Outbreak
We are receiving a number of reports of sick and dying Pine Siskins and goldfinches at area bird feeders. Krysta Rogers of the Wildlife Investigations Laboratory of the CA Dept. […]
Never Too Young; © Josh Galland
From the President: January 2021
Happy New Year! As we all try to stay safe and be patient during the COVID times, I’d like to recommend a page from the National Audubon website called The Joy […]
LNU Complex Fire; © Sarah Mayhew
Effects of Recent Wildfires on Yolo County Birds
The complex of wildfires in late summer that burned large swathes of Yolo, Solano, Napa and other counties devoured oak woodland, forest and chaparral indiscriminately. Wanting a sense of the effects […]
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