It has been a slow start to spring migration with warblers, flycatchers and vireos being seen in low numbers through the month of April. Birders I’ve spoken to down south […]
Cassin's Finch (female); © Bart Wickel
Mountain Quail; © Sean Smith
From the President: May 2021
It’s hard to believe, but we’ve reached the end of the Yolo Audubon 2020-2021 season. This is our last newsletter until September. Thank you for sticking with us through these […]
Semipalmated Sandpiper; © Zane Pickus
Improvements at North Regional Pond in Woodland
Combined with the wastewater treatment ponds next door, North Regional Pond is a top birding destination in Yolo County. With 210 species recorded in eBird*, it is one of only […]
Tricolored Blackbird; © Lynda Goff
The tricolored blackbird—still in peril
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 […]
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 […]
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