Nice Monday morning birding walk along the Sacramento River. Some Phainopeplas were feeding in the bushes for berries. 2/2 Here a female or juvenile male on the left and a male on the right.

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Nice Monday morning birding walk along the Sacramento River. Some Phainopeplas were feeding in the bushes for berries. 1/2 Had to sneak up on this one. Either a female or juvenile male.

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An excited Ruby-crowned Kinglet enjoying a nice mild Saturday in the Yard.

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Drizzled most of last night, nice damp Thursday morning. Made a boule and focaccia.

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Warm and overcast Wednesday morning, went for a short walk along the Sacramento River. A couple of random bird photos: An American Herring Gull feeding on a dead salmon, and a Hermit Thrush in the tangles.

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Nice seasonable Tuesday morning. An intergrade Northern Flicker was working the lawn for food. This bird shows red shafts and gray nape, ear coverts, throat and crown of a Red-Shafted. The malar stripe is black (mostly) characteristic of a Yellow-Shafted.

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Seasonable Monday afternoon in the yard. I placed a small pile of peanuts on a chair to see what transpired.

A California Scrub-Jay judiciously picked up, weighed, dropped, picked up again, then distributed each throughout the yard. Mostly buried in leaf litter under oaks and dense shrubbery. One was buried amongst some Irises and another in leaves in between some potted Geraniums. Closest cache point was about five feet away, the farthest was approximately 150 feet away.

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A couple of more shots from this Sunday morning's birding along the Sacramento River. A Cedar Waxwing and a Bewick's Wren.

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Mild Sunday morning walk along the Sacramento River. Lots of Yellow-rumped Warblers working in the trees and shrubs, in and out of the shadows.

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A couple of yard birds this windy and cool Monday morning-

Hermit Thrush
California Quail

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Cool Saturday evening in the yard, finally feeling like fall. A Song Sparrow was grazing in the lawn.

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Big weather cool down this Saturday morning. Hard to photo busy Ruby-crowned Kinglets in the yard:

In a Red Bud
In a different Red Bud
In a Walnut Tree
In the Cycad

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Another warm morning this Friday in the yard. Another nice fall bird moving through, a Varied Thrush.

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Warm Thursday morning. An intergrade Northern Flicker was in the yard, showing a red malar stripe, brown crown and gray throat of a Red-shafted, and a red nuchal patch of a Yellow-shafted.

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Very warm Wednesday morning in the yard. Lesser Goldfinches were grazing in the Rosemary.

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Warm Friday morning, a Hermit Thrush was foraging in the lawn.

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Windy hot Wednesday morning, an American Goldfinch in the yard looking for water and seed.

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Nice cool Sunday morning, busy birds in the yard-

Hutton's Vireo
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow

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Nice sunrise this Saturday morning.

Overcast and mild Friday morning. More Fall arrivals in the yard. Dark-eyed Junco and Pine Siskin.

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