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October is a transitional month for the wildlife refuges. The ponds that went dry in the summer are slowly filled to accommodate the incoming ducks, geese and other shorebirds.
As I drove along the ...
by cal birdbrain
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on Mon Oct 30, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
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Spouse and I hit the road last week to escape the valley heat and headed west to the cool air of the Point Reyes National Seashore. The journey took�us through miles of valley farmland and coastal ...
by cal birdbrain
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on Mon Sep 04, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
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Last week, I took a�day trip out to Gray Lodge State Wildlife Refuge�north of Sacramento. After a few minutes,�suburbia quickly gives way to miles of rice fields and orchards. �Last year, the ...
by cal birdbrain
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on Thu Aug 17, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
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A friend and I decided to see what wildlife refuges looked like in the summer. �In the winter they have large ponds�full of migratory geese and ducks. We wanted to see who stuck around during the ...
by cal birdbrain
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on Tue Jul 04, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
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When I drove down to Orange County to visit family for Thanksgiving, I blew my engine going up the notoriously long steep Grapevine Grade on Interstate 5. I ended spending an extra week with family ...
by cal birdbrain
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on Mon Dec 05, 2022 at 12:33 PM PST
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Visiting family for Thanksgiving, I set aside a day to visit Upper Newport Bay and Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserves. I wanted to see who migrated all the way down the coast to Orange County. The Daily Bucket is a nature refuge. We amicably discuss...
by cal birdbrain
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on Thu Dec 01, 2022 at 10:15 AM PST
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As I write this, millions of cranes, ducks, geese, swans and little brown birds of all types are flying into their winter digs here in the great Central Valley. �Dozens of federal, state, �and ...
by cal birdbrain
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on Mon Oct 03, 2022 at 01:58 PM PDT
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My most recent visit to Orange County gave me a chance to spend a short time at Newport Bay.
Most folks are aware of Newport Beach a city centered�around the lower bay with multimillion dollar ...
by cal birdbrain
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on Tue Sep 20, 2022 at 07:00 AM PDT
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I recently took the opportunity �while in Orange County to visit the Bolsa Chica Reserve, a little bit of wilderness along the coast in one of the most urbanized places in the country. Bolsa Chica ...
by cal birdbrain
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on Tue Jul 19, 2022 at 08:00 AM PDT
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I love the Bolsa Chica Reserve —�it is several hundred acres of wildness in the middle of one of the most urbanized places in the US —�the Los Angeles Basin. A popular beach and major highway ...
by cal birdbrain
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on Fri Aug 05, 2022 at 07:00 AM PDT
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Houston and Galveston, Texas For those who’ve read my past buckets about birds, you have discovered that I use buckets as a place to identify birds that I’ve seen and don’t know. The opening bird in this series was identified by a park ranger and...
by lyleoross
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on Tue Jun 16, 2020 at 07:00 AM PDT
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Photos from the Conodoquient Creek in Camp Hill PA on July 31st.
Thirty years ago Camp Hill in Central Pennsylvania was overwhelmingly Republican. At a recent Camp Hill Democratic meeting with candidates for this year’s candidates it was...
by CA148 NEWS
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on Sun Aug 06, 2017 at 10:20 PM PDT
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I love egrets.
They are magnificent birds. If you've not had the experience of seeing one glide through the air, you've missed something special.
Egrets are common in many parts of the U.S., but ...
by Kestrel
154 comments
on Sun Jul 11, 2010 at 06:01 AM PDT
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