http://www.americanbirdguide.com/wordpress Birdwatching and identifying birds in Sonoma County, CA. Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:07:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You may have noticed that there hasn't been much posting here lately. It's time for me to share the reason for that. Our family's total attention has been taken away from the normal, happy pursuits of our daily lives by an impending health and environmental crisis that is being forced ... http://www.americanbirdguide.com/wordpress/?p=78 What is the matter with our state government? What moral creed sees sense in taking money away from people who are attempting to protect wild lands, and handing it over to people who are going to build a new death row facility? Take away the very thing - being in ... http://www.americanbirdguide.com/wordpress/?p=77 Click to read a post identifying the birds shown above Greetings Birders, I write this post with a heavy heart. When the Cosco Busan crashed into the Bay Bridge this past week, every birder I know immediately thought of what this disaster would mean for the birds. This time last year, my ... http://www.americanbirdguide.com/wordpress/?p=76 Greetings, Birders! There are days when you set out to bird and the air is strangely silent, the branches are still, the world seems empty of birds. And then there are the days when you stop, en route to a destination perhaps, just to check a favorite spot for a moment ... http://www.americanbirdguide.com/wordpress/?p=75 Greetings Birders! Did you like the game of hide-and-seek as a child? If so, then birding for wrens will likely strike you as extra fun. As a clan, they are some of the Bay Area's most secretive little birds, more often heard than seen. A flash of clay or chestnut in ... http://www.americanbirdguide.com/wordpress/?p=74 Greetings Birders! Sibley's birding guide says that the White-crowned Sparrow is a year-round bird in Sonoma County, CA., but locals know that's not true. This trusty little bird disappeared when the weather heated up, early in the year, heading north to cooler Canada. Just this afternoon, my husband called me to ... http://www.americanbirdguide.com/wordpress/?p=73 Greetings, Birders! This is just a quick bird alert post to announce that one of our favorite birds, the Cedar Waxwing, has just arrived in the SF Bay Area. I saw a birding report this week that mentioned them being spotted in West Sonoma County, in Sebastopol, and yesterday, we saw ... http://www.americanbirdguide.com/wordpress/?p=72 Greetings Birders! No matter how hot the weather may feel, I know that fall is just around the corner when the woodpeckers wake up from their summer silence and begin to make themselves known once again in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nuttall's Woodpecker seems to blast the first coming-of-fall fanfare ... http://www.americanbirdguide.com/wordpress/?p=71 Marin County, California August 2007 Point Reyes National Seashore Superintendent Don Neubacher welcomed animal exterminators, White Buffalo Inc., to our local seashore at the end of July. West Marin locals are seeing the helicopters, seeing Fallow and Axis does with ear tags and collars, and seeing large storage containers that will hold ... http://www.americanbirdguide.com/wordpress/?p=70 Greetings Birders! Well, birding has been a bit on the quiet side since the heat of summer set in on us here in Sonoma County. Sure, the California Quail are still making their evening promenade through the cool grass, and some of our migratory visitors are still in evidence if you ... http://www.americanbirdguide.com/wordpress/?p=69