The first post in a new blog to record our bird watching trips. It beats ticking them off in a book.
On Sunday 16 March we paid a quick trip to the Yolo Bypass Wildlife area, just across the river to the West of Sacramento. Something you pass by on Interstate 80 as you travel to the Bay Area, a wetlands area that is a safety overflow area of the Sacramento River when there are flood conditions. While it has been an extremely dry winter, a couple of recent rainstorms have provided a little bit of moisture and I think the farmers have been flooding the area in preparation for rice planting.
Sightings today (he ones that I could name) were:
Of course there were lots of other little brown things that I couldn't identify and likely a bunch of ducks that escaped me.
On Sunday 16 March we paid a quick trip to the Yolo Bypass Wildlife area, just across the river to the West of Sacramento. Something you pass by on Interstate 80 as you travel to the Bay Area, a wetlands area that is a safety overflow area of the Sacramento River when there are flood conditions. While it has been an extremely dry winter, a couple of recent rainstorms have provided a little bit of moisture and I think the farmers have been flooding the area in preparation for rice planting.
Sightings today (he ones that I could name) were:
- Coot
- Great Egret
- Cattle Egret
- Great Blue Heron
- Glossy Ibis
- Black Necked Stilt
- American Avocet
- Northern Shoveler (the most abundant after the coots)
- Ruddy Duck
- Mallard (they are always around)
- Killdeer
- Red Winged Blackbird
Of course there were lots of other little brown things that I couldn't identify and likely a bunch of ducks that escaped me.
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