The Birders Report

Anna’s Hummingbird Female Being Courted photos by Larry Jordan
Spring is in the air in Northern California even though it is still a couple of weeks away.  Anna’s Hummingbirds, as I stated in an earlier post, nest early and thus avoid competition from other hummingbird species.  They may begin nesting in November or December but these [...]

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Marsh Wren Singing and Nest Building photos by Larry Jordan
I was able to visit Delevan and Sacramento National Wildlife Refuges Saturday and was able to witness something I had never seen, a Marsh Wren building a nest.  There were Marsh Wrens singing everywhere during my visit, wherever the bulrushes grew, they were singing.  Here is [...]

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Bewick’s Wren photos by Larry Jordan
On the last day of the Great Backyard Bird Count, I took a trip into town to run some errands and did two counts in two different areas.  I arrived at the first location at sunrise hoping to find the Great Horned Owl nest I photographed last spring but the [...]

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Anna’s Hummingbird Female photo by Larry Jordan
I got in my first day of counting for the Great Backyard Bird Count today.  It began with an Anna’s Hummingbird outside my window.  I didn’t take a photo of the one outside my window but I’m posting theses photos that I took while at the Wildhorse Golf Club, [...]

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Cedar Waxwing photos by Larry Jordan
Cedar Waxwings are one of three birds in the family Bombycilla which also includes the less common Bohemian Waxwing and the Japanese Waxwing which is listed as Near Threatened (NT).  The Cedar Waxwing has actually been increasing in numbers over the last twenty years in North America.

Waxwings eat predominately sugary [...]

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