The Birders Report

Common Merganser Female photos by Larry Jordan Following the episode at Turtle Bay when I found the Belted Kingfisher and watched the Green Heron preening, I decided to revisit that location, a few days later,  in another attempt at photographing the kingfisher or Common Mergansers I had seen.  I have spotted Belted Kingfishers nearly every [...]

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Mourning Dove Drinking from the Sacramento River photos by Larry Jordan I was fortunate to get off work a little early the other day and decided to stop by Turtle Bay and see what avian fauna was about.  It was near 100 degrees, in the late afternoon so I didn’t expect much.  I walked across [...]

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Black Phoebe At Yolo Wildlife Area photos by Larry Jordan After visiting my favorite Burrowing Owl colony I told you about last week, I headed just a few miles East on I-80 to the Vic Fazio Yolo Wildlife Area.  This 16,000 acre wildlife area has undergone 3,700 acres of wetland restoration in the Yolo Bypass [...]

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Burrowing Owl Head Tilt photos by Larry Jordan I happened to be in the Sacramento area over the weekend and stopped to visit the Burrowing Owl colony at Wildhorse Golf Club in Davis, California.  I arrived before dawn and watched the sunrise in this owls eyes as she gave me the endearing Burrowing Owl head [...]

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Wildlife rehabilitation is essential to return wild animals that have been injured or orphaned, due to human activity or natural disaster, back into the wild.  It is an important aspect of protecting wild animals, biodiversity and the environment in our ever expanding human sprawl. Luckily the folks in Shasta County can count on an excellent [...]

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